OPM is conducting a study to establish or update occupational series covering software development, software engineering, data science, and data management. Image: Alexandru Chiriac/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffA new Biden administration initiative on cybersecurity includes elements for the federal cyber workforce, where understaffing and skills gaps have been the focus of attention for years.
The “National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy” includes a priority to “communicate the benefits of careers in public service amongst both job seekers and current employees and lower the barriers associated with hiring and onboarding.”
This is to include efforts to “drive sustained progress through greater federal collaboration; attract and hire a qualified and diverse federal cyber workforce; improve career pathways in the federal cyber workforce; and invest in human resources capabilities and personnel.”
It notes that OPM is conducting an occupational study “to establish or update one or more occupational series covering federal government positions in the fields of software development, software engineering, data science, and data management. OPM will explore Digital Career work in the federal government to determine workforce needs and policy requirements supporting a Federal Digital Careers workforce. This study will identify the nature and scope of digital careers work and the skills needed to perform this work governmentwide.”
“The results of the study will affect how federal agencies attract, hire, and retain Digital Career professionals governmentwide. OPM’s Tech to Gov Working Group is also partnering with the US Digital Service to support tech hiring across government and cultivate a pipeline of skilled tech talent recruitment representatives, regardless of their job series,” it says.
OPM is working with agencies to hold a second “Tech to Gov Job Fair” by early 2024, it added.
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