The Office of Government Ethics has announced a program
for temporary rotational assignments in the executive
branch ethics program.
It said the one-year pilot rotational assignment program
is meant as a framework to provide opportunities at
host agencies for individual professional development
to executive branch employees working in the ethics
program and OGE employees with substantive ethics
program duties.
A rotational assignment at OGE would give an agency
employee an executive branch-wide perspective on
ethics policy and oversight, a better understanding
of OGE’s approach to legal issues, how it determines
ethics policy, how it prepares for an agency program
review, assesses training needs and develops training
products, how it monitors proposed legislation
impacting the ethics program, and the way it provides
international technical assistance for anti-corruption
initiatives, according to the announcement.
It said OGE would periodically announce assignments
through its list serve or on its website, describing
duties, locations, etc., in any of three divisions of
the Office of Agency Programs, Office of General
Counsel and Legal Policy, or the Office of Government
Relations and Special Projects.
On the other hand, OGE employees interested in learning
more about the management of an agency’s ethics program
could gain first-hand experience with the challenges
and demands of conducting ethics training, giving
advice, and working directly with financial disclosure
filers – as well as experience different management
systems and organizational cultures and bring that
knowledge back to OGE to strengthen the overall program,
the announcement said.
Although OGE envisions few assignments for the pilot,
interested agencies should contact the general counsel
or deputy director of OGE about assignment availability.
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