Office of Personnel Management

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

1900 E Street NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001

Phone, 202-606-1800. TTY, 202-606-2532. Internet, www.opm.gov.

DIRECTOR John Berry

Deputy Director (vacancy)

Chief of Staff and Director of External Affairs Elizabeth Montoya

Inspector General Patrick E. McFarland

Chair, Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory (vacancy)

Committee

General Counsel Elaine Kaplan

Chief Financial Officer Mark Reger

Director of Modernization Reginald Brown

Associate Director, Strategic Human Resources Nancy H. Kichak

Policy Division

Associate Director, Human Capital Leadership and Kevin E. Mahoney

Merit System Accountability Division

Associate Director, Management Services Division Ronald Flom

and Chief Human Capital Officer

Associate Director, Federal Investigative Kathy Dillaman

Services Division

Associate Director, Human Resources Products and Kay T. Ely

Services Division

Director, Office of Communications and Public Sedelta Verble

Liaison

Director, Office of Congressional Relations Tania Shand

Executive Director, Chief Human Capital Officer Sydney Smith-

Council Heimbrock, Acting

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The Office of Personnel Management administers a merit system to ensure compliance with personnel laws and regulations and assists agencies in recruiting, examining, and promoting people on the basis of their knowledge and skills, regardless of their race, religion, sex, political influence, or other nonmerit factors.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was created as an independent establishment by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. app.), pursuant to Executive Order 12107 of December 28, 1978. Many of the functions of the former United States Civil Service Commission were transferred to OPM.

Activities

Employee Benefits OPM manages numerous activities that directly affect the well-being of the Federal employee and indirectly enhance employee effectiveness. These include health benefits, life insurance, and retirement benefits.

Examining and Staffing The Office of Personnel Management is responsible for providing departments and agencies with technical assistance and guidance in examining competitive positions in the Federal civil service for General Schedule grades 1 through 15 and Federal Wage system positions. In addition, OPM is responsible for the following duties:

--providing testing and examination services, at the request of an agency, on a reimbursable basis;

--establishing basic qualification standards for all occupations;

--certifying agency delegated examining units to conduct examining;

--providing employment...