In the “Making Government Work” section of the Policy Playbook for America’s Next President, the Partnership and No Labels present a vision for a more efficient, effective and responsive government. The ideas include: improve the presidential transition process; reform how government hires and manages its people; and transform government from a culture of compliance to one of customer service.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of agency review.
The first comprehensive map of the presidential transition process across six work streams detailing the complexity of the process across the major stakeholders. The stakeholders represented include the transition team (agency review, policy implementation, presidential appointments, and operations and support), outgoing White House, agencies and transition service providers (General Services Administration, Office of Government Ethics, National Archives and Records Administration, Office of Personnel Management, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice). This file was created by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Center for Presidential Transition. It is formatted for a 60×60 poster.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of operations.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of appointments.
This sample job description notes a summary of the role, reporting relationship, accountabilities and key competencies of a transition team’s head of policy.
These brief biographies detail the careers those chosen to lead the presidential appointments, agency review, operations and policy teams during the Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan transitions.
This bibliography, compiled by the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson and Allen & Overy, compiles much of the scholarly literature analyzing various aspects of presidential transitions.
This organizational chart displays the structure and personnel distribution of the Romney Readiness Project.
The Romney Readiness Project developed a flowchart which details the steps required in the confirmation process.