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Create Champions: Designate a Senior Executive Service Manager with Agency-Wide Placement

Why Is This Idea Important?: This position should have agency-wide responsibilities in a place that signifies stature and broad perspective, so that it covers the entirety of what the agency does, not just one program or one department. To ensure continuity, the position should be a career civil service appointment and not a political appointee. There is a problem with “stovepipes” or “silos” of collaborative expertise and information. To overcome this, the senior level manager must have access to policymakers, a budget, and authority to build collaborative governance into the entire human resource management life cycle, including recruitment, employment, training, and performance evaluation.

To change agency cultures and foster collaborative governance, the Open Government Directive should require that agencies designate a senior level manager in a position for whom this is the primary responsibility and with agency-wide placement.

Submitted by Lisa Blomgren Bingham 2 years ago

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  1. Kirk Emerson

    I would recommend that the senior level leader be specifically at the SES level, be a full time position with a project budget and NOT be located in the Human Resources section of the agency. The ADR network established by executive order ended up with many collateral duty designatd leads, most of whom were in HR or EEOC, without sufficient standing in their departments or agencies.

    The open government agency champions should be positioned to link with or convene senior staff in the program/policy, budget,and legal sections, with standing to influence and promote internal agency dialogue and culture change within the departments and agencies.

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