Sentence:  She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government <WSD>post</WSD>. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An appointed position in an organization, job.