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Agency Snapshot: National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation has a workforce of 1,506 employees and hired 156 employees in the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2011. Like other agencies, the National Science Foundation is streamlining and improving the end-to-end hiring process to create a better experience for applicants, managers, and human resources specialists. The agency is also working to create appropriate training opportunities, promote work-life balance, provide appropriate benefits, and recognize excellent performance in its workforce. This website shows the different initiatives underway and progress being made in pursuit of the government-wide human resources agenda.
Key Initiatives
To achieve its mission the government must ensure that it is able to find and hire the best talent possible. We have terrific people in the Federal government. However we often miss out on talented individuals because of the length of the federal hiring process. The Administration has put speeding up and improving the hiring process to attract top talent high on its performance agenda in order to address this issue.
Attracting people to government service is only the beginning – agencies also must treat employees well in order to engage and retain talented individuals. To that end, agencies are continuing to work on promoting a healthy work-life balance and creating development opportunities to engage the workforce, improve employee well-being, and increase government performance. NSF has consistently been recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, and will continue to pursue that distinction by targeting the opportunities for improvement identified by the FY 2010 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The Foundation takes drops in its scores very seriously and is working to return to higher levels of satisfaction in the areas that saw a decline from FY 2008 levels.
We also must create a culture where employees strive to excel at performing their responsibilities. Agencies are working to create a culture where employees want to be, and can be, as effective as possible serving the public each and every day. NSF works diligently to create a supportive and enabled culture focused on results aligned with the agency’s mission of promoting the progress of science; advancing the national health, prosperity and welfare; and securing the national defense. Toward those ends, NSF uses the results from the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to identify opportunities to strengthen its performance culture and to improve employee satisfaction with leadership and knowledge management.
