MCC Receives Award for being a Best Place to Work in the Federal Government

Washington D.C. – The Millennium Challenge Corporation placed fifth out of 31 small agencies in the Federal Government in the 2007 Best Places to Work ranking. This is the first time MCC was evaluated for this award. MCC is a new U.S. government corporation established by Congress in 2004 to reduce poverty and spur sustainable economic growth in developing countries. The Corporation was honored at a luncheon today, where MCC’s Vice President for Administration and Finance, Michael Ryan, accepted the award.

“We are proud to receive this honor, and we are excited to rank in the top five Best Places to Work the first time we are measured,” said MCC Deputy CEO Rodney Bent.

The Best Places to Work award drew on responses from more than 221,000 civil servants to produce detailed rankings of employee engagement across 283 federal agencies and subcomponents. The Partnership for Public Service and American University’s Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation used data from the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Human Capital Survey to rank agencies and subcomponents. Agencies and subcomponents are ranked on a Best Places to Work index score, which measures overall employee engagement.

In addition to the employee engagement rating, agencies and subcomponents are also scored in 10 workplace environment (“best in class”) categories such as effective leadership, employee skills/mission match and work/life balance. MCC scored third in the “Effective Leadership” category and fourth in the “Employee Skills/Mission Match” category.

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Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a United States Government corporation designed to work with some of the poorest countries in the world, is based on the principle that aid is most effective when it reinforces good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people that promote economic growth and elimination of extreme poverty.