Career Program Management - United States Army

1 UNCLASSIFIED army Regulation 690 950 Career Program Management Headquarters Department of the army Washington, DC 16 November 2016 SUMMARY of CHANGE AR 690 950 Career Program Management This major revision, dated 16 November 2016-- o Changes the title from Career Management to Career Program Management (cover). o Defines and establishes the role of the army Career Program Proponency in support of the army mission and its relationship to Strategic Human Capital Planning; relocates and redefines the Career Management objectives to chapter 4; defines the goals of the army Career Program Proponency; restructures the focus from Career Management to Career Program Management ; realigns the details of Career Program Management to chapter 3; defines the army Career Program Proponency System; realigns responsibilities to chapter 2; revises and restructures the Career Program Policy Committee (chap 1).

2 O Renames chapter title to responsibilities; deletes merit placement and outside recruitment; establishes roles and responsibilities to align with civilian workforce transformation outcomes (chap 2). o Renames chapter title to Career Program Enterprise Management ; realigns Career Intern Program to chapter 6; establishes Career Program oversight; updates Career Program codes; revises and clarifies army Civilian Training, Education, and Development System Plan requirements and approval process; clarifies Career Program change procedures; incorporates and revises information from previous chapter 4, The army Acquisition Workforce and/or army Acquisition Corps; removes previous chapter 5, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System; incorporates and revises information from previous chapter 6, Career Program Unique Policies (chap 3).

3 O Renames chapter title to Civilian Strategic Human Capital Planning; introduces strategic human capital planning, strategic workforce planning, and the army human capital lifecycle; defines the competency Management framework and process (chap 4). o Renames chapter title to Talent Management ; incorporates Senior Enterprise Talent Management and/or Enterprise Talent Management programs; introduces succession planning; highlights mentoring and coaching (chap 5). o Renames the chapter title to army Intern Program ; reaffirms and clarifies the army intern Program ; establishes the army Intern Executive Resources Board; revises and restructures the army Civilian Training, Education, and Development System intern enterprise Program Management (allocation, selection, and graduate placement); clarifies army intern Program Management related to promotion eligibility, awards, overtime, permanent change of station placement outside the continental United States , and reduction in force; reaffirms and clarifies the Presidential Management Fellows Program (chap 6).

4 O Revises internal control evaluation (app B). *This publication supersedes AR 690-950, dated 31 December 2001. AR 690 950 16 November 2016 UNCLASSIFIED i Headquarters Department of the army Washington, DC * army Regulation 690 950 16 November 2016 Effective 16 December 2016 Career Program Management History. This publication is a major revi-sion. Summary. This regulation provides pol-icy for army Civilian Career Program man-agement and supports the army Civilian human capital life cycle. Applicability. This regulation applies to all army Civilian employees to include ap-propriated fund, nonappropriated fund, di-rect hire foreign nationals, and federal wage system. Applicability is limited for tempo-rary and term employees to those activities necessary for them to effectively perform in their current positions. This regulation does not apply to National Guard technicians or Indirect-hire foreign national employees who are employees of their States and host nations, respectively.

5 Proponent and exception authority. The proponent for this regulation is the As-sistant Secretary of the army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). The proponent has the authority to approve exceptions to this regulation that are consistent with control-ling law and regulation. The proponent may delegate this approval authority, in writing, to a division chief within the proponent agency or its direct reporting unit or field operating agency, in the rank of colonel or the civilian equivalent. Activities may re-quest waivers to this regulation by provid-ing justification that includes a full analysis of the benefits and must include a formal review by the activity s legal office. All waiver requests will be endorsed by the commander or senior leader of the request-ing activity and forwarded through their higher headquarters to the policy propo-nent.

6 Refer to AR 25 30 for specific guid-ance. army internal control process. This regulation contains internal control provisions in accordance with AR 11 2 and identifies key internal controls that must be evaluated (see appendix B). Supplementation. Supplementation of this regulation and establishment of com-mand and local forms are prohibited with-out prior approval from the Assistant Sec-retary of the army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs), 111 army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310 0111. Suggested improvements. Users are invited to send comments and suggested improvements on DA Form 2028 (Recom-mended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms) directly to the Assistant Secretary of the army (Manpower and Reserve Af-fairs), 111 army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310 0111. Committee Management . AR 15 39 requires the proponent to justify establish-ing/continuing committee(s), coordinate draft publications, and coordinate changes in committee status with the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the army , Analysis and Integration Cell (AAAI CL), 105 army Pentagon, Wash-ington DC, 20310 0105.

7 Further, if it is de-termined that an established "group" identi-fied within this regulation later takes on the characteristics of a committee as found in AR 15 39, then the proponent will follow AR 15 39 requirements for establishing and continuing the group as a committee. Distribution. This publication is availa-ble in electronic media only and is intended for command levels C, D, and E for the Ac-tive army , the army National Guard/ army National Guard of the United States , and the army Reserve. Contents (Listed by paragraph and page number) Chapter 1 Introduction, page 1 Section I Overview, page 1 Purpose 1 1, page 1 References 1 2, page 1 Explanation of abbreviations and terms 1 3, page 1 Responsibilities 1 4, page 1 Contents Continued ii AR 690 950 16 November 2016 Section II army Mission and the army Civilian Corps, page 1 army mission and strategic goal 1 5, page 1 Civilian Workforce Vision 1 6, page 1 army Career Program Proponency 1 7, page 1 Section III army Civilian Career Program Proponency Enterprise, page 2 army Civilian Career Program Proponency System 1 8, page 2 army civilian Career Program Management concept 1 9, page 2 Chapter 2 Responsibilities, page 3 Assistant Secretary of the army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

8 2 1, page 3 Deputy Chief of Staff, G 3/5/7 2 2, page 5 Commanders, army commands, army service component commands, and direct reporting units 2 3, page 5 Career Program functional chief 2 4, page 6 Career Program functional chief representative 2 5, page 6 Career Program proponency office 2 6, page 8 Career Program planning board 2 7, page 9 Command Career Program manager 2 8, page 10 Civilian Human Resources Agency 2 9, page 10 Supervisor 2 10, page 10 army Civilian 2 11, page 11 Chapter 3 Career Program Enterprise Management , page 11 Section I Overview, page 11 Career Program Management standardization 3 1, page 11 Career Program objective 3 2, page 11 Career Program oversight 3 3, page 12 Career Program structure 3 4, page 12 Section II army Civilian Training, Education, and Development System Plan, page 13 Overview 3 5, page 13 Career ladder and Career map 3 6, page 13 army Civilian Training, Education, and Development System Plan approval process 3 7, page 14 Section III Career Program Actions, page 14 Establishment of a new Career Program 3 8, page 14 Title change to a Career Program 3 9, page 15 Career Program mapping 3 10, page 15 Career Program unique requirements 3 11, page 15 army Career Tracker 3 12, page 15 Section IV army Acquisition Workforce and/or army Acquisition Corps, page 15 Overview 3 13, page 15 Director for Acquisition Career Management 3 14, page 16 Career Program and acquisition Career field relationship 3 15, page 16 Chapter 4 Civilian Strategic Human Capital Planning, page 16 Contents Continued AR 690 950 16 November 2016iii Section I Introduction, page 16 Overview 4 1, page 16 Strategic workforce planning 4 2.

9 Page 16 army Civilian human capital life cycle 4 3, page 16 Section II Competency Management Framework and Process, page 17 Overview 4 4, page 17 Competency Management framework 4 5, page 18 Competency-based Management process 4 6, page 19 Chapter 5 Talent Management , page 20 Section I Talent Management , page 20 Introduction 5 1, page 20 Talent Management and the Career Program Proponency 5 2, page 20 Section II army Civilian Talent Management , page 20 army civilian leader talent Management 5 3, page 20 Senior Enterprise Talent Management and/or Enterprise Talent Management programs 5 4, page 20 Section III Succession Planning, page 22 Overview 5 5, page 22 Objective 5 6, page 22 Succession planning and leadership 5 7, page 22 Succession planning and merit principles 5 8, page 22 Succession planning process 5 9, page 22 Section IV Mentoring and Coaching, page 23 Overview 5 10, page 23 Mentoring 5 11, page 23 Coaching 5 12, page 23 Chapter 6 army Intern Program , page 24 Section I Overview, page 24 Introduction 6 1, page 24 Synopsis 6 2, page 24 Types of army entry-level professional development programs 6 3, page 24 Section II army Civilian Training, Education and Development System Intern Enterprise Program Management , page 24 army Intern Executive Resources Board 6 4, page 24 army Civilian Training, Education, and Development System recruitment cell 6 5, page 25 army Civilian Training, Education, and Development System intern manager 6 6, page 25 army Civilian Training, Education and Development System intern 6 7, page 25 Forecasting and allocations 6 8, page 25 Recruitment 6 9, page 26 Selection 6 10.

10 Page 26 Contents Continued iv AR 690 950 16 November 2016 Graduate placement 6 11, page 26 Post-graduation 6 12, page 27 Section III army Intern Program Management , page 27 army intern vacancy announcements and selections 6 13, page 27 Master Intern Training Plan 6 14, page 27 Performance and recognition 6 15, page 28 Inability to meet performance requirements 6 16, page 28 Promotion requirements 6 17, page 28 Extension of an army internship 6 18, page 28 Overtime funding 6 19, page 28 Permanent change of station 6 20, page 28 army Civilian Training, Education, and Development System interns outside the continental United States 6 21, page 28 Intern reduction-in-force guidance 6 22, page 28 Section IV army Presidential Management Fellows Program , page 28 Overview 6 23, page 28 Program execution 6 24, page 29 Appendixes A. References, page 30 B.