Strategic Workforce Planning: Challenges Impair USAID's Ability to Establish a Comprehensive Human Capital Approach

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Develop a plan to fill and retain the allocated number of Office of Human Capital and Talent Management staff needed to fulfill its duties in the hiring and onboarding process.

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Develop and disseminate policies for the revised civil service recruitment and hiring process and standard operating procedures for the modified Foreign Service staff hiring and onboarding processes.

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Create a USAID-specific definition of skill gaps to address both competency and staffing skill gaps across its hiring mechanisms.

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Finalize strategic workforce planning guidance, to include USAID's updated Strategic Workforce Plan, workforce planning Automated Directives System chapter, and materials to assist Agency operating units in identifying and addressing skill gaps.

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Conduct an analysis to determine whether personnel tools-e.g., Talent Analytics, LaunchPad, the Workforce Planning Model, or the Competency Exploration for Development and Readiness-can be utilized to track skill gaps at both an Agency and operating unit level and implement changes as appropriate based on this analysis.

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