EMPLOYMENT CATEGORIES

Use the guidelines below to assist you in determining your employment eligibility for item #9 of the general Supplemental Data. You may be eligible for more than one category. Select all categories where you meet the description

CATEGORY - DESCRIPTION:

• Civilian Army Eligible: A permanent Department of Army civilian.
• 30 Percent Disabled Veteran: Prior military service members with a disability rating of 30 percent or more. No time limit.
• Veteran Recruitment Authority (VRA) Eligible: Includes Disabled Veterans; or Veterans who have been awarded a campaign badge, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (AFEM) or Armed Forces Service Medal (AFSM); or Recently separated veterans. Recently separated veterans are defined as those who have separated from active service within the last three years. There is no length of service requirement. Authority is limited to positions at or below the GS-11 or equivalent level.
• Veterans Employment Opportunities Act (VEOA) of 1998 (P.L.105-339): To be eligible for this type of appointment, you must be a preference eligible or veteran separated after substantially completing 3 or more years of continuous active service performed under honorable conditions. ("Active service: defined in title 37, United States Code active duty in the uniformed services and includes full-time training duty, annual training duty, National Guard duty, and attendance, while in the active service, at a school designated as a service school by law or by the Secretary concerned. A veteran who is released under honorable conditions shortly before completing a 3-year tour is also eligible.")
• Executive Order 12721 Eligible: Worked as an appropriated fund Federal employee overseas while a family member of a civilian employee, NAF employee, or uniformed service member serving overseas. Must have accumulated 52 weeks creditable service, received a fully successful or better performance rating, and returned to the U.S. from the overseas tour of duty and must meet time requirements.
• Transfer Eligible: Current permanent, competitive service, non-Department of Army Federal civilian employee
• Reinstatement Eligible: Attained Career status on a permanent, competitive Federal appointment; or Career-Conditional with reinstatement eligibility. A former competitive service tenure group 1 Federal employee; a former competitive service career-conditional tenure group 2 Federal employee who has less than a 3-year break in service; a current DCIPS civilian employee serving on a permanent appointment and applying for permanent non-DCIPS position who does not meet the eligibility requirements under the DCIPS interchange agreement but who is a former competitive service tenure 1 or 2 Federal employee; or a former competitive service career-conditional tenure group 2 Federal employee who is entitled to veterans preference.
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) Eligible: Current or former employees displaced from non-DOD agencies. These are employees who fall into one of these categories: (1) A current career or career-conditional competitive service employee in tenure group 1or 2 at grade levels GS-15 or equivalent and below, who has received a specific reduction-in-force (RIF) separation notice or a notice of proposed removal for declining a directed reassignment or transfer of function (TOF) outside of the local commuting area; (2) A former career employee, as defined above, who was separated through RIF or removed for declining a directed reassignment or TOF outside the local commuting area.
• Severely Disabled: Applicant has a severe physical or mental impairment certified by a state vocational rehab service that limits one or more major life activities.
• DCIPS/CIPMS Interchange Agreement Eligible: Currently serving on a CIPMS appointment without time limitation or has been involuntarily separated from such appointment without personal cause within the preceding year. Must be or have been serving continuously for at least 1 year in a CIPMS position. May be appointed only to permanent positions based on this authority.
• NAF Interchange Agreement Eligible: Currently serving on a NAFI or AAFES position without time limitation or has been involuntarily separated from such appointment without personal cause within preceding year. Must be or have been serving continuously for at least 1 year in a NAFI or AAFES position. May be appointed only to permanent positions based on this authority.
• Other Interchange Agreement: A person currently employed in another U.S. Federal Service position covered by an existing interchange agreement with the Office of Personnel Management, such as TVA.
• Outstanding Scholar: US citizen college graduate with a GPA of 3.45 or higher on a 4.0 scale for all under-graduate work or have graduated in upper 10% of class or major university subdivision.
• In-service DCIPS Eligible: A current DCIPS civilian employee serving on a permanent appointment and applying for DCIPS positions.
• Non Status: All applicants without personal competitive status; employees on temporary and term positions; employees on excepted service positions who do not meet eligibility requirements for an interchange agreement; and applicants who have not worked for the Federal government.
• Military Spouse Preference : The Military Spouse Preference Program applies to spouses of active duty military members of the U.S. Armed Forces who desire priority consideration for positions at DoD activities. To receive preference eligibility, the spouse must be married to the military sponsor before reporting to the new duty assignment. MSP applies only with-in the commuting area of the military sponsor's permanent duty station and if you are ranked among the "best qualified" for the vacancy for which you are applying. Military spouses will not lose MSP eligibility when accepting a temporary or term position or permanent position with a flex or intermittent on-call work schedule (non-continuing positions). MSP eligibility is retained until the military spouse accepts or declines the offer of a permanent appointment to a full-time or part-time position with fixed work schedules (continuing positions). MSP can only be used once during a sponsor's tour. Once the spouse accepts or declines a continuing position, eligibility terminates whether or not the position was obtained through MSP. MSP eligibility is lost when the spouse accepts or declines an offer of a ontinuing position or declines a job interview for a continuing position. This includes positions with non-appropriated fund (NAF) organizations or AAFES. Once MSP is used, the spouse competes as either a current permanent federal employee or as a family member without preference (overseas).
• Family Member with Preference (Overseas): The spouse or unmarried children (including stepchildren, adopted children, and foster children) not more than 23 years of age residing with a member (sponsor) of the U.S. Armed Forces or a U.S. citizen civilian employee (sponsor) of a U.S. Government Agency (including NAF activities) whose duty station is in a foreign area. This category does not apply to family members of contractors. FMP applies when the Family Member (FM) arrives in the overseas area and to positions in the commuting areas of the sponsor's duty station. FMP also applies when an active duty member of a dual military couple exits the service overseas and applies for civilian employment as a family member. NOTE: FMP applies to initial employment at the overseas location. Once the FM accepts or declines a continuing position, eligibility terminates whether or not the position was obtained through FMP. A continuing position for FMP purposes is a position expected to last one year or longer regardless of work schedule. This includes positions with NAF organizations or AAFES. FMP can be used only once during the sponsor's tour. Once used, the FM competes as a family member without preference (FMNP). FMP does not apply to FMs of locally hired civilian employees or government contractors. FMP is lost when the spouse accepts or declines an offer of a continuing position to include a temporary position that is expected to last one year or more, or that is extended to last one year or more, or declines a job interview.
• Family Member No Preference (FMNP) (Overseas): Family members of locally hired DoD or NAF civilian employees, or A family member or spouse preference eligible who has lost military spouse or family member preference due to accepting or declining an offer of continuing employment. A continuing position for FMNP purposes is a position expected to last one year or longer regardless of work schedule. This includes positions with NAF organizations or AAFES.
• Reemployed Annuitant: A former Federal employee who has retired under either the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) or Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS).
• Student Employment: A U.S. student enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a degree seeking student, taking at least a half-time academic or vocational/technical course load in an accredited high, technical, vocational school, or a 2 or 4 year college or university, graduate/professional school, and meet your state's minimum employment age for minors and are either a US citizen or permanent resident of the United States or otherwise authorized to be employed.
• Summer Employment: US citizen interested in summer employment only, other than temporary employment described in non-status above.
• Family Member Youth Part Time (FMYPT) (Overseas): The FMYPT Program is for high school students taking a full curriculum or college students taking at least 24 semester hours (or the equivalent) per school year. Family member spouses under 18 years of age who are attending high school and 14- to 23-year-old unmarried children, stepchildren, adopted children, and children under legal guardianship of the sponsor or spouse are eligible for employment in the FMYPT program if they reside in the same household with, and are family members of, a Member of the U.S. Forces on active duty; civilian employee of a U.S.
• Defense Contracting Management Agency (DCMA) civilian eligible: A permanent Defense Contracting Management Agency civilian.