Official Summary

10/4/2007--Introduced.Senior Executive Service Diversity Assurance Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish within OPM the Senior Executive Service Resource Office to make recommendations to the Director with respect to regulations, and to provid

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Official Summary

10/4/2007--Introduced.
Senior Executive Service Diversity Assurance Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish within OPM the Senior Executive Service Resource Office to make recommendations to the Director with respect to regulations, and to provide guidance to agencies, concerning the structure, management, and diverse composition of the Senior Executive Service (SES).
Makes it the Office's mission to:
(1) improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity of the SES through policy formulation and oversight;
(2) advance the professionalism of the SES; and
(3) ensure that, in seeking to achieve an SES reflective of the nation's diversity, recruitment is from qualified individuals from appropriate sources.
Requires the Office to make statistics concerning career reserved positions accessible to the public through a website.
Requires each agency to establish one or more SES evaluation panels, with respect to any SES position for which a vacancy announcement is posted, to:
(1) review the qualifications of each candidate for a position which is to be filled by a career appointee; and
(2) certify to the executive resources board the names of the best qualified candidates.


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