Graduate program coordinators/directors: I am writing to ensure you are aware of the upcoming opportunity for your graduate students to be part of the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program and the U.S. Forest Service. The PMF program is a prestigious, government-wide fellowship that aims to recruit graduate students (masters, law, or doctorate) who demonstrate promise as future leaders into public service. It is a two-year program that provides opportunities for leadership and management development, and it leads to a permanent job with the Federal government. This letter is a call for outstanding graduate student candidates of all backgrounds to apply for nomination to the PMF program. This year’s nomination period is tentatively set for October 1 -15, 2010. For more information and to see an updated timeline for the nomination/application period, please see the following link to the Office of Personnel Management PMF website: https://www.pmf.opm.gov. The PMF program includes opportunities with dozens of Federal agencies in many disciplines. However, as a Forest Service PMF, I’d like to share some of the unique aspects of the PMF program in the U.S. Forest Service that distinguish us from other Agencies. The Forest Service PMF program provides: • Entry at high level positions with fast-paced promotion • Excellent training and developmental opportunities • An engaged network of current and former PMFs in the Forest Service • Support for the PMF program from the highest levels of the agency • Opportunities to work in all regions of the country Forest Service PMFs include graduates with degrees in natural resource management, law, public policy and planning, environmental studies/sciences, wildlife biology, forestry, and more. For more information about the Forest Service PMF program, visit our website (http://www.fs.fed.us/fsjobs/pmf/index.html) or feel free to contact me by phone or email. If you’d like to make this opportunity available to your graduate students, there are two basic steps that your department must take to help prospective candidates apply for this unique and important fellowship:
1.) Advertise the opportunity to apply 2.) Create a simple nomination process. Information about both of these simple steps is available at https://www.pmf.opm.gov/HAcademia.aspx. In addition, the PMF program provides a handbook for academic institutions that includes sample recruitment language, information about creating a nomination process, and much more. Please consider advertising this tremendous opportunity to your students. Feel free to contact me directly for advice, assistance, or questions. Leslie Brandt Leslie A. Brandt, Ph.D. Climate Change Advisor's Office (detail) 201 14th Street, SW Washington, DC 20250
