Supervisors' Briefings on New Automated PD Writing Tool

Position Description Management (PDM) is almost here! This Integrated Financial Management (IFM) pathfinder project will be implemented at Goddard, the Lead and Pilot Center for the Agency, the week of June 17. The "go live" date transition to the new system is expected to be June 25. Goddard supervisors, managers and team leads are invited to a pre-training preview of the new tool on Tuesday or Thursday, May 21 or 23 in Bldg 26, Room 205. A session at Wallops will be held Wednesday, May 22 in the E2 Training Room. Each session lasts one and a half hour and will provide the overview necessary before training occurs during implementation week.

The Position Description Management (PDM) process and system automates the current position description (PD) writing and editing process; enables supervisors, managers and human resources staff to create new positions easily and speedily and streamlines the classification process.

Assigned times for directorates are as follows:

Code 200 Tuesday, May 21 9:00-10:30
Code 300 and all 100 Codes Tuesday, May 21 1:00-2:30
Code 400 Tuesday, May 21 3:00-4:30
WFF Wednesday, May 22 1:00-2:30
Code 500 and Code 700 Thursday, May 23 9:00-10:30
Code 600 Thursday, May 23 1:00-2:30
Code 900 Thursday, May 23 3:00-4:30

For more information, contact the Goddard Functional Lead for PDM, Nelson Rodriguez, x6-2883, Nelson.Rodriguez@gsfc.nasa.gov or visit the PDM web site at http://npdm.nasa.gov. For information about the many other projects managed by the IFM Program Office, visit www.ifmp.nasa.gov