§9806 Term appointments

Summary

The Administrator may create fixed-term jobs that last at least 1 year and at most 6 years under the agency’s competitive hiring rules. A person in a term job can be made permanent without a new outside competition if all of these are true: they were hired by an open competitive exam; the job notice said conversion to a career job might be possible; they have at least 2 years of uninterrupted service in the term job; their work was at least fully successful; and the permanent job is the same job series, in the same location, and has no greater promotion potential. The Administrator can also convert someone through internal promotion procedures if the same first four conditions are met. A converted employee becomes career-conditional unless they already met the time needed for full career tenure, and they gain competitive status when converted.