330.707—Reporting vacancies to OPM.

(a) Agencies are required to report all competitive service vacancies to OPM when accepting applications from outside the agency (including applications for temporary positions lasting 121 or more days), except when they elect to fill a position by the transfer or reassignment of an ICTAP eligible from another agency.

(b) Content. Notice to OPM of job announcements must include the position title, location, pay plan and grade (or pay rate) of the vacant position; application deadline; and other information specified by OPM. In addition, for all positions reported, agencies are required to provide OPM with an electronic file of the complete vacancy announcement or recruiting bulletin, which must contain:

(1) Title, series, pay plan, and grade (or pay rate);

(2) Duty location;

(3) Open and closing dates, plus any other information dealing with how application receipt will be controlled, such as the use of early cut-off dates;

(4) Name of issuing agency and announcement number;

(5) Qualification requirements, including knowledges, skills, and abilities;

(6) Entrance pay;

(7) Brief description of duties;

(8) Basis of rating;

(9) What to file;

(10) Instructions on how to apply;

(11) Information on how to claim veterans' preference, if applicable;

(12) The agency's definition of well-qualified and information on how CTAP and/or ICTAP candidates may apply, including proof of eligibility required; and

(13) Equal employment opportunity statement.

(14) Reasonable accommodation statement.

(i) An agency may use wording of its choice that conveys the availability of reasonable accommodation. An agency must not list types of medical conditions or impairments as appropriate for accommodation, and must keep the wording simple.

(ii) We recommend using the following statement:

“This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.”

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[62 FR 31323, June 9, 1997, as amended at 66 FR 63906, Dec. 11, 2001]

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Effective Date Note: At 75 FR 67593, Nov. 3, 2010, part 330 was revised, effective Mar. 3, 2011. For the convenience of the user, the revised text is set forth as follows: PART 330—RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT (GENERAL) § 330.707 Exceptions to ICTAP selection priority. An agency may take the following personnel actions as exceptions to § 330.705 : (a) Place a current or reinstate a former agency employee with RPL selection priority under subpart B of this part; (b) Effect a position change of a current permanent competitive service agency employee; (c) Appoint a 10-point veteran preference eligible through an appropriate appointing authority; Pt. 330, Nt. (d) Reemploy a former agency employee with regulatory or statutory reemployment rights, including the reemployment of an injured worker who either has been restored to earning capacity by the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, or has received a notice that his or her compensation benefits will cease because of recovery from disabling injury or illness; (e) Appoint an individual for a period limited to 120 or fewer days, including all extensions; (f) Effect a personnel action under, or specifically in lieu of, part 351 of this chapter ; (g) Appoint an individual under an excepted service appointing authority; Pt. 330, Nt. (h) Convert an employee serving under an appointment that provides noncompetitive conversion eligibility to a competitive service appointment, including from: (1) A Veterans Recruitment Appointment under part 307 of this chapter ; (2) An appointment under 5 U.S.C. 3112 and part 316 of this chapter of a veteran with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more; and (3) An excepted service appointment under part 213 of this chapter , such as for persons with disabilities or in the Presidential Management Fellow Program, the Student Career Experience Program, or the Federal Career Intern Program; Pt. 330, Nt. (i) Transfer an employee between agencies under appropriate authority during an interagency reorganization, interagency transfer of function, or interagency mass transfer; (j) Reemploy a former agency employee who retired under a formal trial retirement and reemployment program and who requests reemployment under the program's provisions and applicable time limits; (k) Effect a personnel action pursuant to the settlement of a formal complaint, grievance, appeal, or other litigation; (l) Extend a time-limited appointment up to the maximum period allowed (including any OPM-approved extension past the regulatory limit on the time-limited appointment), if the original action was made subject to ICTAP selection priority and the original vacancy announcement stated that the appointment could be extended without further announcement;

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Pt. 330, Nt. (m) Reappoint a former agency employee into a hard-to-fill position requiring unique skills and experience to conduct a formal skills-based agency training program; Pt. 330, Nt. (n) Retain an individual whose position is brought into the competitive service under part 316 of this chapter and convert that individual, when applicable, under part 315 of this chapter ; (o) Retain an employee covered by an OPM-approved variation under Civil Service Rule 5.1 (5 CFR 5.1 ); (p) Appoint an appointee of the Senior Executive Service into the competitive service under 5 U.S.C. 3594 ; (q) Assign or exchange an employee under a statutory program, such as subchapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5, United States Code (also called the Intergovernmental Personnel Act), or the Information Technology Exchange Program under chapter 37 of title 5, United States Code; (r) Detail an employee to another agency; Pt. 330, Nt. (s) Transfer employees under an OPM-approved interagency job swap plan designed to facilitate the exchange of employees between agencies to avoid or minimize involuntary separations; (t) Transfer or reinstate an ICTAP eligible who meets the agency's definition of “well-qualified”; (u) Transfer an employee voluntarily from one agency to another under a Memorandum of Understanding or similar agreement under appropriate authority resulting from an interagency reorganization, interagency transfer of function, or interagency realignment, when both the agencies and the affected employee agree to the transfer; or (v) Transfer or a position change of an employee under part 412 of this chapter . Pt. 330, Nt.