Memorandum to Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies, Guidance on Career Reserved SES Positions and Agency Redesignation Requests , February 24 , 2025
Memorandum to Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies, Guidance on Career Reserved SES Positions and Agency Redesignation Requests , February 24 , 2025
From the document: "In his January 20, 2025, Presidential Memorandum entitled Restoring Accountability for Career Senior Executives (“SES Accountability”), President Trump directed agencies to, consistent with law, “reassign agency SES members to ensure their knowledge, skills, abilities, and mission assignment are optimally aligned” to implement the President’s policy priorities.
Further, in its February 4, 2025 memorandum entitled Guidance Regarding Redesignating SES CIO Positions, and its February 5, 2025 memorandum entitled Maintaining the Integrity of the Career Senior Executive Service, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”) provided guidance to agencies relating to reclassifications of career reserved Senior Executive Service (“SES”) positions as general.
Now, OPM is issuing this guidance memorandum to provide wider, programmatic guidance across the entire SES.
Attached to this memorandum is a recent list of government-wide career reserved positions in the federal government. Agencies are requested to, by March 24, 2025:
1. Develop a revised, proposed list of career reserved positions at the agency, consistent with agency organic statutes and the below guidance; and
2. Submit a single request to OPM (allocation-management@opm.gov) to redesignate each current career reserved position that does not appear on the proposed list."
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