7: Career Path
Design a formal IT program management career path Other Information:
In the next six months, OPM, with input from agencies and OMB, will create a specialized career path for IT program managers
(PMs). This will likely require creating a separate Occupational Series specific to IT program management within the current
IT family with career advancement paths that are more competitive with the private sector. The path should require expertise
and experience for advancement. It will also require the development of a competency model for IT program management consistent
with the IT project manager model. Finding, recruiting, and hiring top IT program management talent is challenging. In the
next six months, OPM will work with OMB to provide agencies with direct hiring authority for IT PMs as necessary. Further,
agencies will identify specific IT program management competency gaps in the next Human Capital Management Report and develop
specific plans to close the IT PM gap. To ensure that agencies are executing these plans, senior agency executives will review
their progress and provide an interim report to OMB, 12 months after the next Human Capital Management Report is published.
OPM will work with the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to pilot the IT program management
career track.
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