CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND THE PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CAREER SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05703A000500030019-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 7, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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NPIC/D 130-70
~7 MAY IS70
M )ItANNIUM P0k: N`PIC Personnel
SUBJECT Career Develo lent and the Photographic
Interpretation Career Service
1. The Executive Director and the NPIC; Career Service Board have
reviewed the organization, responsibilities and functions of the Photo-
graphic Interpretation Career Service Board, the two Ccmpetitive Evalu-
ation Panels and the Training Selection Panel. The Executive Director
has reended and I have approved certain changes which are described
below. These changes are incorporated in WIC Instruction 14o. 20-4 of
4 May 1970.
2. The important changes which have
a. Establishment of Career. Panels in IEG, PP&BS, PSG, and
TSSG chaired by the Group or Staff Chief and including as members
the Division or Deputy Division Chiefs of that organization. The
Career Panels will review all career development and personnel
actions--prmotions, training, reassignments, etc.--concerning the
CIA personnel of the respective Components. The Group or Staff
Chief, with the advice of Us Career Panel, is authorized to com-
plete or review competitive Evaluation Ratings, select applicants,
and approve promotions to grades GS-12 and below, and to review:
and recommend approval to the Head of the Career Service of other
personnel actions. The Career Panels will report to the NPIC
Career Service Board cn all approved actions.
b. NPIC Competitive Evaluation Parcels A and B have been
eliminated and responsibility placed on respective supervisors
to o=petitively evaluate their persomiel In grades CS-09 through
GS-14. The appropriate Carer Panels %J11 review and approve all
ratings. Separate areas of competition have been established be-
cause of the different occupational Bro s and functional lines
of work.
c. The ?EPIC: Career Service Board, chaired by the Executive
Director, will continue to be responsible for policies and programs
relevant to career develc ert and other personnel matters through-
out the Center. Promotions and other recta meended actions concern-
ing CIA personnel in the grades of M-12, CS-13, and GS-14 will be
referred by the Career Panels to the WIC (areer Service Board for
final review and reca nendatiorn to the Head of the Career Service.
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StBACT : Career Development and the Photographic
Interpretation Career Service,
3. These changes are intended to focus they responsibility and the
authority for management of career development closer to the points in
the Center's organization where specific career development actions-
promotions, training, awards, reassignments, etc.--can most knowledge-
ably be accomplished or initiated. In other words, career development
is a function of effective rmina ement, and effective management is
created through the actions of the Center's lirmt supervisors--branch,
division, and groom chiefs.
4. The Career Service Board--chaired =>y- the Fxecutive Director
and including the Group and Staff Miefs as : ,ers--will provide the
direction to ensure that compatible, equitaa.,le ind productive career
development procedures are used throughout the Center.
Alt' TR C. lNtW 11-
Director
National Photograpi:ic Interpretation Center
Distribution: All Employees
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