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SECRETARY OF THE NAVY CIVILIAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. Mariam Morad Comptroller MCAS Miramar. Opportunities. Academic Fellows
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SECRETARY OF THE NAVY CIVILIAN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Mariam Morad Comptroller MCAS Miramar
Opportunities • Academic Fellows • One academic year of intensive post graduate-level study in the area of financial management at the school of their choice (Two semesters or three quarters) • Career-Broadening Fellows • Up to six months of work experience in the financial management field outside the Fellow’s Command
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA • Professional financial employee in the 501,505,510, or 511 job series, and have career tenure • Have minimum of three years of civilian service employment in a financial management within the DON or MC • Be accepted by a graduate program as a student in good standing at an accredited college or university for a full-time program of study (Academic Fellowships) • Have reached a career stage where the skills required would be greatly enhanced by an assignment at another command, preferably working financial management issues (Career-Broadening Fellowships)
COSTS • Costs are centrally funded • Costs of tuition, fees and books (Academic Fellowship) • Travel and transportation costs (Career-Broadening Fellowship) • Employer (Nominating Command-level) Responsibilities • Funds the Fellow’s salary during the Fellowship period. • Guarantees that the Fellow will return to their position • Shall endorse that the nominee’s potential and the contribution that the fellowship would provide to the command • Post-Fellowship Service Commitment • The fellow will continue government service for a period of not less than three times the length of the Fellowship
ASN Fellowship Experience • External Audit Coordination Division (NAVAUDSVC, GAO, DODIG, and the Surveys and Investigations staff (S&IS) of the House Appropriation Committee (over 1500 audit records) • Non-appropriated Fund investment oversight Committee of the MCCS Board of Director • Senior Financial Management Conference • Host-Tenant reimbursable project • Marine Corps Financial Management excellence awards • Financial Management Community of Interest (COI) competency identification and development workshop • Researched and answered Budget Policy questions • Completed ADA investigation training • Attended Pre-brief, and MROC meeting for POM13 kickoff
ASN Fellowship Experience Continued • Trip to Capital Hill to listen to all Service Chiefs brief to new Staffers on Secretary Gates savings initiatives • Assigned as Judge for ASMC awards in FM for Comptroller/Deputy Comptroller Category • Supported Contractors on design of a cost model to be use by installations in various situation • Provided input, reviewed DODI 4000.19 on Support Agreements for up-date • Participated in phase I of HQMC DC, I&L Marine Corps Installation Command (MCICOM) Operational Planning Team
Fellow Civil Servant Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure • Embrace challenges • Whatever you do, do it with passion • Believe in something outside of yourself • Every day is an audition for the future • Observe the signs of when to move on • Leave it behind • Re-invent yourself • Practice perspective • Find a mentor • Harness the power of diversity • The most challenging task of a civil servant is to speak truth to power (Integrity and Courage) • Mark Twain once observed, “If you tell the truth you never have to remember anything.” • “Never, never, never, quit”-- Sir Winston Churchill (Find determination, grit and Zeal for doing good)