Current Projects
U.S. Department of Labor: Development of Core Competencies for Key Occupations

Client/Funder:

Department of Labor (Posted July 1, 2002)

Purpose and Scope:

The Department of Labor has asked the Academy's Center for Human Resources Management to provide assistance in developing core competencies for specific mission-critical occupations. This proposal initiates DOL's effort to fulfill its Government and Performance Results Act (GPRA) FY2002 Annual Performance Plan's goal targeting the design of competencies for key occupations, to be followed in FY2003 with skill-gap identification and analysis.

Center:

Center for Human Resources Management

Project Director:

Mary Lou Lindholm

Project Status:

Ongoing

Panel Members:

The public may send comments on the composition of the panel for a period of seven (7) days after the posted date to hansari@napawash.org.

Melissa Allen (Chair) - Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation; Deputy Associate Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; Program Analyst, U.S. Department of Treasury. Former positions with the Department of the Navy: Chairwoman, Manpower Action Council; Assistant Personnel Services Officer; Program Analyst.

Mark Abramson - Executive Director, PwC Endowment for the Business of Government. Former Chairman, Leadership, Inc.; President, Council for Excellence in Government; Senior Program Evaluator, Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Research Associate, National Academy of Sciences; Staff Associate, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University.

Nancy Kingsbury - Managing Director, Applied Research and Methods, U.S. General Accounting Office. Former positions with U.S. General Accounting Office: Acting Assistant Comptroller General for General Government and Director for Planning and Reporting, General Government Division (GGD); Director, Federal Human Resources Management Issues, GGD; Director, Air Force Issues, National Security, and International Affairs Division (NSIAD); Director, Foreign Economic Assistance Issues, NSIAD; Associate Director, Defense Manpower and Logistical Issues, NSIAD; Acting Associate Director, Air Force Issues. Former positions with the U.S. Civil Service Commission/Office of Personnel Management: Staffing Specialist, and Management Analyst. Former Director of Resource Management, Peace Corps.

Bernard Rostker - Senior Fellow, RAND Corporation. Former Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness); Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Gulf War Illnesses, Medical Readiness, and Military Deployment; Under Secretary of the Army. Former positions with the Department of the Navy: Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Economist, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis. Former positions with RAND Corporation: Director, Defense Manpower Research Center, National Defense Research Institute; Program Director, Force Development and Employment Program; Associate Director, Arroyo Center.

Meetings:

For information on the following, please contact Hina Ansari at hansari@napawash.org.

Meeting 1: July 23, 2002 (posted 7/10/2002)
Meeting 2: September 25, 2002 (posted 9/18/2002)
Meeting 3: October 9, 2002 (posted 10/02/2002
Meeting 4: December 16, 2002 (posted 10/10/2002)