# Presentation: 037905

## Presidential Management Fellows Orientation

- Presented by:
- NOAA Workforce  Management Office

**Notes:**
Welcome.  

## Today’s Objectives

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

**Notes:**
Today’s objectives include those listed.

## POSITION OCCUPIED

**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.

## TENURE 

**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.

## CAREER LADDER

**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.

## CAREER PROMOTION

**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.

## DEMONSTRATION PROJECT PAY SYSTEM

**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

## GS-Classification

_**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.

_**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

## Slide 9

| Career Paths | Pay Bands |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Scientific &
Engineering ZP | I |  |  | II |  | III | IV |  | V |
| Scientific &
Engineering
Technician ZT  | I |  | II |  | III | IV | V |  |  |
| Administrative 
ZA | I |  |  | II |  | III | IV |  | V |
| Support
ZS | I | II | III | IV | V |  |  |  |  |
| Corresponding 
GS Grade | 1  2 | 3  4 |  5  6 | 7  8  | 9 10 | 11 12 | 13    | 14 | 15 |

## PROMOTION

**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.

## PROMOTION 

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

## PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

**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**

## References

_**References**_
- Office Of Personnel Management
- _[www.opm.gov](http://www.opm.gov/)_
- Workforce Management
- _[www.wfm.noaa.gov](http://www.wfm.noaa.gov/)_
- To Contact us: http://www.wfm.noaa.gov/contact_lists.html

## Q & A’s

_**Q & A’s**_