This chart, divided into sections for all clearance candidates and candidates requiring additional scrutiny, details the steps comprising an FBI background check.
This chart divides the more than 4,000 federal positions requiring presidential appointment into four categories: presidential appointment requiring Senate confirmation, presidential appointment without Senate confirmation, non-career senior executive service (above GS-15 level), confidential or policy-determining positions at or below GS-15 level, and non-competitive positions by statute at or below GS-15 level.
This chart notes the number and types of presidential appointees within each major federal agency.
A draft agenda for the transition team’s initial post-convention meeting with the Office of Government Ethics.
The first comprehensive map of the presidential transition process across six work streams detailing the complexity of the process across the major stakeholders. The stakeholders represented include the transition team (agency review, policy implementation, presidential appointments, and operations and support), outgoing White House, agencies and transition service providers (General Services Administration, Office of Government Ethics, National Archives and Records Administration, Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice). This file was created by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Center for Presidential Transition. It is formatted for a 60×60 poster.
A list of nominees that received confirmation hearings before Inauguration in the Bush and Obama administrations.
This memorandum from the Obama-Biden Transition Project discusses the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 and it’s encouragement of rapid placement of national security personnel in both Transition and the new Administration, including provisions to facilitate the security clearance process for members of transition teams.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of agency review.
This template lists relevant information of position descriptions for presidential appointments, including position summary, lists of past appointees, key responsibilities, management scope related to the position, strategic priorities and goals, and key competencies.
This chart notes that the vast majority of White House positions are appointed by the President and none are subject to Senate confirmation.