For Immediate Release
November 21, 2003
Executive Order
Executive Order: Presidential Management Fellows Program
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including sections 3301 and
3302 of title 5, United States Code, and in order to provide for the
recruitment and selection of outstanding employees for service in
public sector management, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby constituted the Presidential Management
Fellows Program. The purpose of the Program is to attract to the
Federal service outstanding men and women from a variety of academic
disciplines and career paths who have a clear interest in, and
commitment to, excellence in the leadership and management of public
policies and programs. Individuals selected for the Program shall be
known as Presidential Management Fellows (PMFs) or Senior Presidential
Management Fellows (Senior PMFs).
Sec. 2. (a) Individuals eligible for appointment as a PMF under
this order are those who, in pursuing a course of study at the graduate
level, have demonstrated both exceptional ability and the commitment to
which section 1 refers. Such individuals at the time of application
must have received, or must expect to receive soon thereafter, an
appropriate advanced degree as defined by the Director of the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM).
(b) Individuals eligible for appointment as a Senior PMF under
this order are those who have, through extensive work experience,
demonstrated both exceptional leadership or analytical ability and the
commitment to which section 1 refers.
Sec. 3. The Director of OPM shall prescribe appropriate
merit-based rules for the recruitment, nomination, assessment,
selection, appointment, placement, and continuing career development of
fellows, including rules that:
(a) reserve to the head of a department or agency or component
within the Executive Office of the President (EOP) the authority to
appoint a fellow who is to be employed in that department, agency, or
component;
(b) provide for nomination by universities and colleges, through
competitive selection processes, of eligible individuals for
consideration for appointment as PMFs;
(c) carry out the policy of the United States to ensure equal
employment opportunities for employees without discrimination because
of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; and
(d) ensure the application of appropriate veterans' preference
criteria.
Sec. 4. (a) Fellows shall be appointed to positions in either:
(1) Schedule A of the excepted service; or
(2) an agency or component within the EOP excepted from the
competitive service.
(b) Appointments under subsection (a) shall not exceed 2 years in
duration unless extended by the head of the department or agency or
component within the EOP, with the concurrence of the Director of OPM,
for a period not to exceed 1 additional year.
(c) The following principles and policies shall govern service and
tenure by fellows:
(1) responsibilities assigned to a PMF shall be consistent with
the PMF's educational background and career interests, and the purposes
of the Program; and responsibilities assigned to a Senior PMF shall be
consistent with the Senior PMF's experience and career interests, and
the purposes of the Program;
(2) continuation of a fellow's appointment shall be contingent
upon satisfactory performance by the fellow throughout the fellowship
appointment;
(3) except as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection,
service as a fellow shall confer no right to further Federal employment
in either the competitive or excepted service upon the expiration of
the fellow's appointment; and
(4) competitive civil service status may be granted to a fellow
who satisfactorily completes the Program and meets such other
requirements as the Director of OPM may prescribe. A fellow appointed
by an agency excepted from the competitive service may also be
appointed to a permanent position in an excepted service agency without
further competition.
Sec. 5. The Director of OPM shall provide for an orderly
transition, including with respect to nominations, selection processes,
and appointments, from the Presidential Management Intern Program
established by Executive Order 12364 of May 24, 1982, to the
Presidential Management Fellows Program established by this order.
Until that transition is provided for, indi-viduals who were selected
or appointed under the provisions of Executive Order 12364 and who have
not completed their scheduled periods of excepted service are hereby
redesignated as Presidential Management Fellows, and continue their
internships under the terms of Executive Order 12364.
Sec. 6. The Director of OPM shall prescribe such regulations as
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order.
Sec. 7. Executive Order 12364 is superseded, except as provided in
section 5 of this order.
Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in
equity by any party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, instrumentalities or entities, its officers or employees, or
any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 21, 2003.
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