Department of State Headquarters careers
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Thomas Jefferson ran the State Department with a chief clerk, three other clerks, a translator, and a messenger, covering two diplomatic posts, in London and Paris, and ten consular posts. The department has at various points also published the census, controlled copyright, and managed the Mint. Its work now is fighting terrorism, protecting American interests abroad, and carrying out foreign policy, with the Foreign Affairs Manual and Handbook governing how any of it gets done.
Headquarters covers the domestic side of this department, the work done in the United States rather than at a post overseas, and it isn't all in Washington. Senior officials serving domestically run from deputy assistant secretaries up to the Secretary of State, and an Agency Strategic Plan sets how foreign policy and foreign assistance get implemented.