The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) tracks the status of ambassador appointments.
From the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a copy of the list of 63 questions asked to potential appointees during the Obama administration.
Over the last year, the Partnership for Public Service and the IBM Center for The Business of Government have held a series of roundtable discussions with key government leaders and stakeholders to develop a Management Roadmap for the next administration. This roadmap will share lessons learned, identify promising initiatives and offer ideas on successful implementation.
Our first roundtable and report focused on executive talent. Our second roundtable discussion was centered on how to create an ecosystem for cross-agency collaboration in the new administration. In the new report, “Building an Enterprise Government,” Jane E. Fountain outlines a framework that the next president and agency executives can use to formulate strategic priorities, modernize management processes and build capacity to achieve cross-agency goals.
In the coming months, we will release additional reports on related management topics. We invite you to learn more about the Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition and the Management Roadmap.
These brief biographies detail the careers those chosen to lead the presidential appointments, agency review, operations and policy teams during the Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan transitions.
This template lists useful fields for determing the suitability of a candidate for nomination to an appointed position.
This list of products and deadlines should be completed by the agency review teams in order to effectively achieve their mission.
This chart, divided into sections for all clearance candidates and candidates requiring additional scrutiny, details the steps comprising an FBI background check.
Displayed in this chart is the percentage of priority Senate-confirmed positions requiring presidential appointments that were filled during the course of the Obama Administration’s first year.
This Partnership document contains guidelines for key considerations in planning for a Cabinet orientation in the first months of an administration.
This bibliography, compiled by the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson and Allen & Overy, compiles much of the scholarly literature analyzing various aspects of presidential transitions.