The Office of Personnel Management has listed responsibilities for employees participating in rotational assignments as well as their supervisors in home and host agencies, which it highly recommends putting into a memorandum of understanding.
“Agencies are strongly encouraged to use the attached MOU (Appendix 1) which outlines the roles of the home agency, host agency, and participant,” reads a Nov. 18 memo to executive departments and agencies from acting OPM Director Michael J. Rigas.
Federal agencies are required to maintain employee training programs, and the memo notes that in the case of cybersecurity, opportunities for employees to work on assignments as part of those in other agencies can be especially beneficial for retaining staff long term.
Government officials hope such programs can help make things interesting enough to draw professionals who are in high demand away from more lucrative private-sector jobs.
“Such rotational programs can be a benefit to the employee in that they are given opportunities to learn new skills and abilities,” Rigas wrote. “Moreover, loaning agencies themselves benefit from the new skills and perspective the employee develops. Cybersecurity rotations support organizational objectives with cybersecurity education, training, workforce development, and retention.”
OPM recommended the MOU cover roles parties would play in evaluations and agreement on objectives upfront. For example, assessments from a host-agency supervisor should factor into a home-agency supervisor’s annual assessment of the participant, who would have a say in describing the objectives.
The memo highlights three rotation opportunities for cybersecurity: the President’s Management Council interagency program, which is coordinated by OPM and includes a cyber track; the cybersecurity ..
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