Presidential Management Fellows Orientation

1. Presidential Management Fellows Orientation Presented by: NOAA Workforce Management Office

2. Today’s Objectives • You will learn and understand: • HR Terminology • Demonstration Project Pay System • General Schedule vs. Demonstration Project

3. POSITION OCCUPIED • Competitive Service - Federal positions normally filled through open competitive examination under civil service rules and regulations. • Excepted Service – Positions in the Federal civil service not subject to the appointment requirements of the competitive service. Exceptions to the normal, competitive requirements authorized by law, executive order or regulations.

4. TENURE • Career – Tenure of a permanent employee in the competitive service who has completed three years of substantially continuous creditable Federal service. • Career Conditional – Tenure of a permanent employee in the competitive service who has not completed three years of substantially continuous creditable Federal service. • Indefinite – Tenure of a nonpermanent employee hired for an unlimited time.

5. CAREER LADDER A career ladder is a series of developmental positions of increasing difficulty in the same line of work, through which an employee may progress to a journeyman level on his or her personal development and performance in that series.

6. CAREER PROMOTION • Promotion of an employee without current competition when: 1) he/she had earlier been competitively selected from a register or under competitive promotion procedures for an assignment intended as a matter of record to be preparation for the position being filled; 2) the position is reconstituted at a higher grade level because of additional duties and responsibilities.

7. DEMONSTRATION PROJECT PAY SYSTEM • A pay system that improves our ability to attract and retain • quality employees • Offers pay setting flexibility when setting pay • Emphasizes pay for performance

8. Pay Banding Classification • 4 Pay Schedules: “Career Paths” - Scientific & Engineering (ZP) - Technical (ZT) - Administrative (ZA) - Support (ZS) • 5 “Pay Bands” with Range of Salaries. No Steps • Limited Number of DOC developed standards GS-Classification • One Pay Schedule (GS for all White Collar Occupations) • 15 Grade Levels, each with 10 steps • 100’s of OPM Classification Standards & Individualized PDs.

10. PROMOTION • A change of an employee to higher grade/band when both the old and new positions are under the same job classification system and pay schedule potential. • To be eligible for promotion, time in band requirements must be fulfilled.

11. PROMOTION • Pay may be set anywhere between interval 1 and 3 • Promotions must receive a minimum of a 6% increase • Pay progression & promotion potential

12. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT • Mid year progress review • Performance review • Employee must provide accomplishments to supervisor in writing • Supervisor/Employee discuss accomplishments • No rating discussed at this meeting • Supervisor & Pay Pool Manager discuss ratings • Evaluation feedback • Present final rating • Provide payout information

13. References • Office Of Personnel Management • www.opm.gov • Workforce Management • www.wfm.noaa.gov • To Contact us: http://www.wfm.noaa.gov/contact_lists.html

14. Q & A’s