Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP)

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Federal Career Intern Program(FCIP)
Breakout Session 310 Name Tina C. Weishaupt
James T. Connors General Services
Administration (GSA) Integrated Technology
Service (ITS) Date July 19, 2010 Time
400pm-515pm
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Federal Career Intern Program

• Tina C. Weishaupt
• Procurement Analyst/Intern Coordinator at GSA/ITS
  Office of Acquisition Operations
• Graduate of the FCIP _at_ GSA
• 10 Years of Contracting Experience at GSA
• Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management
• Master of Management

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Federal Career Intern Program

• James T. Connors
• Acquisition Division Director _at_ GSA
• 20 Years of combined Federal acquisition service
• Graduate of Navy Contracting Intern Program
• Bachelor of Business Administration
• Harvard Senior Executive Fellow

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Agenda
• FCIP Overview
• Regulations Guidelines for FCIP
• Program Requirements
• Current Intern Population
• Recent Future Events
• Questions

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Federal Career Intern Program

• FCIP Overview
• Designed to help Agencies recruit attract
  exceptional individuals in a variety of
  occupations
• Provides Agencies with a source of trained
  individuals to fill current future staffing
  needs
• Prepares interns to function effectively in the
  target position within the occupation

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Regulations Guidelines
• Created under Executive Order 13162 7/12/00
• GSA Order OAD P 9361.1 2/04/02
• Appointments are Excepted Service under
• Schedule B
• Length of appointment (2-3 years)
• Must qualify based on OPM Qualification Standards
• Non-competitive conversion to competitive service
• Time in Program counts toward probationary period
  career tenure

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Federal Career Intern Program

• OPM Qualification Standards
• GS-5 Bachelors degree or 3 yrs general
  experience, 1yr general experience to GS-4
• GS-7 Bachelors degree with Superior Academic
  Achievement or 1 yr specialized experience to
  GS-5
• GS-9 Masters degree or 1 yr specialized
  experience to GS-7

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Individual Career Development Plan (ICDP)
• Short-term long-term career goals
• Developmental objectives assignments
• Formal training
• Other activities

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Contracting Training - (FAC-C Level 1)
• CON 100 Shaping Smart Business
  Arrangements
• CON 110 Mission Support Planning
• CON 111 Mission Planning Execution
• CON 112 Mission Performance
  Assessment
• CON 120 Mission Focused Contracting
• 1 Elective

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Contracting Training - (FAC-C Level 2)
• CON 214 Business Decisions for Contracting
• CON 215 Intermediate Contracting for Mission
  Support
• CON 216 Legal Considerations in Contracting
• CON 217 Cost Analysis Negotiation Techniques
• CON 218 Advanced Contracting for Mission
  Support
• 2 Electives

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Other Training
• On-The-Job training
• Rotational Assignments
• Required Soft-Skill training
• Free Training (contracting soft skills)
• Conferences
• Coach Training

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Evaluation Panel Reviews
• 3 month/6 month/1 year
• Accomplishments write-up presentation
• Promotions
• Panel Recommendations
• Graduation Placement

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Federal Career Intern Program

• GSA Employee Performance Review
• Mid-year End-of-year
• Special intern performance plan for ALL interns
• - Professional Responsibilities 50
• - Acquisition Projects 30
• - Relationship Management 20
• FCIP panel data for GSA performance review

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Other Requirements
• Weekly activity reports
• Monthly intern meetings
• Intern notebooks

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Intern Data
• Fall 2009 Graduated first 4 interns from
  Program
• 15 interns in Program (11 in DC area 4 in
  Kansas City, MO)
• 2 Veterans (Army Navy)
• Fall 2010 - Graduation of 6 interns
• Actively recruiting for new interns in DC area

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Recent Events
• Interns from Kansas City just visited DC area
• Intern Potluck
• Luncheon with ITS Assistant Commissioner, Edward
  OHare
• Expo Network Services Conferences

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Federal Career Intern Program

• Past Present Interns

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Federal Career Intern Program
Questions?