Hiring Exemptions
Please see our 2024 Guide to Hiring NSEP Award Recipients for more information on how to recruit and onboard Boren and EHLS award recipients.
SPECIAL HIRING EXEMPTIONS for NATIONAL SECURITY EDUCATION PROGRAM (NSEP)
AWARD RECIPIENTS
References
A. Excepted Service Appointing Authority,Schedule A - 5 CFR 213.3102 (r), dated
28 November 1997
B. Section 802 (k) of the David L. Boren National Security Education Act
of 1991 (50 U.S.C. 1902 (k)),
as amended by Section 956 – Expansion of Persons
Eligible for Expedited Federal Hiring
Following Completion of National Security Education Program Scholarship,Public Law 112-239
(NDAA FY 2013), dated 2 January 2013
Guidelines:
Federal organizations may make non-competitive appointments of NSEP award
recipients under the David L. Boren National Security Education Act of 1991
without regard to the provisions of Title 5 governing appointments in the
competitive service. The two distinct hiring authorities are (1) Schedule A, 5
CFR 213.3102 (r) and (2) the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2013
(NDAA’13).
1. Under 5 CFR 213.3102 (r), any federal agency may non-competitively appoint an
NSEP
Scholarship or Fellowship recipient to a term position lasting up to four
years. The only restriction is
that appointees must have an unfulfilled NSEP
service requirement.
The Schedule A appointing authority does not have a non-competitive conversion option at the conclusion of the appointment period.
However, individuals serving under Schedule A, who have not completed their NSEP
service
obligation, may be reappointed under NDAA’13 to take advantage of the
non-competitive
conversion to career or career-conditional status after two
years of service.
2. Under NDAA’13, any federal agency with national security responsibilities may
non-competitively
appoint an NSEP award recipient to the
excepted service and later convert that appointee to career
or career
conditional status in the competitive service. Those eligible for appointment
under this
expanded authority are:
a. NSEP award recipients who have an existing
service requirement to the federal government; or
b. Award recipients who have
completed their service requirement and are currently employed by
the federal
government in temporary or term appointments in the excepted service; or
c.
Award recipients who have been separated from federal service for less than one
year, and, at
the time of separation, were serving in temporary or term
appointments in the excepted
service.
The conversion occurs after the appointee
has completed two years of continuous federal service.
Candidates must meet all
qualification requirements, in addition to special selective factors for the
position.
Advantages for hiring NSEP Scholars
and Fellows
NSEP award recipients generally come from the top 10% of the academic student
community, and they offer unmatched professional expertise and advanced language
and culture skills in less frequently studied geographic areas considered
critical to U.S. national security.
Federal hiring managers and/or their respective HR offices should contact the
NSEP office directly about hiring needs. NSEP can assist by announcing agency
positions on its exclusive website—NSEPnet.org—and by managing the entire
application solicitation process from start to finish. The NSEP office is also
able to screen its resume database to identify qualified NSEP candidates for
agency job openings. NSEP staff will serve as on-call advisors to answer
questions that arise while making formal decisions about a candidate.
NSEP Office Point of Contact
Email the NSEP Service Team at nsep@nsep.gov
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