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Our Pixstory Partners reached out and asked us to provide some initial thoughts on Presidential Transition in the US, and the types of jobs a new President has authority to “appoint” or position as a noncompetitive appointment, to support their federal civil service leadership.
Generally, after every Presidential Election, if a change occurs, many people employed by the previous President, usually categorized as a noncompetitive appointment/position, are asked to leave. These jobs commonly entail policy executives and advisors, agency heads and their immediate subordinates. These positions are classified this way because their correlating duties, “…may involve advocacy of Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency head or other key officials.”
The US publication that provides details on these jobs is called the “US Government Policy and Supporting Positions (Updated every 4 years).” However, most refer to it as the “Plum Book”
These are the major categories of positions listed in the Plum Book:
•Executive Schedule and salary-equivalent positions paid at the rates established for levels I through V of the Executive Schedule;
•Senior Executive Service (SES) ‘‘General’’ positions;
•Senior Foreign Service positions;
•Schedule C positions excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director, Office of Personnel Management, because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties; and
•Other positions at the GS–14 and above level excepted from the competitive civil service by law because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties.
Again, we at “CounterPivot” and our Pixstory Partners, hope this information is helpful.