Supervisors Training on New PD Tool Begins Monday

Goddard supervisors and managers will have the opportunity to train on the new automated Position Description Management (PDM) system during 1 1/2 hour sessions scheduled on Mon., Tues., Wed,. June 17-19. Goddard is the PDM lead and Pilot Center for the Agency and will be the first to roll out this Integrated Financial Management (IFM) Program module. PDM automates the current position description (PD) writing process and enables human resources staff, supervisors and managers to create PDs more easily and speedily. It also dramatically reduces the amount of time it currently takes to prepare PDs. Once Goddard goes "live" with the new system, this will be the single tool supervisors and managers will use to create or edit PDs. PDM will be implemented at all NASA Centers through the end of August.

The automation of the PD writing and editing process does not replace the needed human interaction and collaboration between the HR specialist and the supervisor or manager initiating the PD. This relationship and the classifier's experience are paramount to the success of the PDM tool.

Three training days have been reserved for managers and supervisors to gain hands-on experience previewing and using the new tool. The short (1 hour/15 minute) sessions will be held on Monday, June 17, Tuesday June 18 and Wednesday June 19 at Greenbelt, building 1, Room 002, according to the following time schedule:
(Same session repeated five times daily)

Session 1 8:00-9:15
Session 2 9:45-11:00
Session 3 2:00-1:15
Session 4 1:45-3:00
Session 5 3:30-4:45

Plans to deliver remote training on Thursday, June 20 to Wallops, GISS and IV&V are in progress. A hands-on session at Wallops is planned for June 27.

Please call Lori Moore (6-6958), Goddard Functional Lead for PDM, to reserve a computer and a seat. No training forms are required.