Almost 90 nominees for top State Department jobs and ambassador posts are currently under consideration by the Senate, according to the Partnership for Public Service.

Almost 90 nominees for top State Department jobs and ambassador posts are currently under consideration by the Senate, according to the Partnership for Public Service. The body has confirmed 32 nominees so far, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and some of his top deputies.

The data was compiled by the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit focused on the civil service.

The nonpartisan, nonprofit Partnership for Public Service has a new initiative that will provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students seeking internships in the federal government.

The Partnership for Public Service, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the effectiveness of federal government, is administering the Future Leaders in Public Service Internship program, while Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic group, will fund it.

Undergraduate and graduate students could spend the summer working for one of two cabinet-level agencies, under a paid internship program announced Dec. 16, by the Partnership for Public Service and Schmidt Futures — a philanthropic organization that invests in promising talent and ideas.

She says organizations such as the Partnership for Public Service can help connect government agencies with higher education, allowing them to foster growth through mentorship, internship programs, and community outreach.

For IGs to fulfill their roles successfully, they must be able to work without interference from agency and executive branch leadership. Across administrations, Congress has pushed back when IGs have appeared to have been marginalized, stonewalled, or fired for unclear reasons.

According to the non-partisan Partnership for Public Service, which tracks 803 federal government executive branch positions requiring Senate confirmation, 235 nominations – nearly three in ten (29%) – are sitting in the Senate awaiting confirmation. Just 194 have been confirmed (164 positions have no nominees at all.)

Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said that while Biden’s rate of nominations is on par with Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the pace of Senate confirmations now lags far behind. Defense has only 37% of its positions subject to Senate confirmation approved, Treasury has 28%, and Commerce...

In a press release, the bill’s cosponsors said the Strengthening the Office of Personnel Management Act is endorsed by the National Treasury Employees Union, the National Federation of Federal Employees, the International Federal of Professional & Technical Engineers, and the National Active, the Retired Federal Employees Association, and the Partnership for Public Service.

The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service issues annual rankings of agencies titled “Best Places to Work.” The FDA, within the Health and Human Services Department, was ranked 80 out of 411 for overall engagement for agency subcomponents.

“In a 50-50 Senate, it means that the Democrats have to have all their votes in alignment, and if they’re not picking up any Republican support, that means they have to have the vice president there in order to be able to go through their nominee, so there’s no margin of error,” said Max Stier,...

The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service also praised the order and said it looks forward to working with the Biden administration on these issues.

Max Stier, head of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, lauded the order. “By putting the public — the customers of the federal government — at the center of every interaction, we have the opportunity to rebuild trust and strengthen our democracy,” Stier said in a statement.

“I would describe this as a starter pistol, not the end of the race,” said Max Stier, head of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan good-governance organization. He said the Biden administration has set out the right goals and metrics, and he hopes the public will help keep the White House accountable.

In that hearing, Michelle Amante, vice president for federal workforce programs at the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, said “I don’t think we should start with the premise that there will absolutely be fraud,” continuing on to agree that “establishing performance metrics is the key.”

“When you hire people who look at things and ask, ‘How do we make this better?’ — that applies inward, too,” said Rectanus. She argues this positive feedback loop has helped ensure the agency is the best place to work in the federal government, backed up by consistently high rankings in the Partnership for Public Service’s Best...

First, he must fill the top jobs in government without delay. According to the Partnership for Public Service appointee tracker, just 189 of the Biden administration’s 802 top jobs had confirmed appointees by Thanksgiving, while another 231 had a nominee but were still waiting for Senate action.

As of Nov. 15, the Senate had confirmed just 179 of 419 nominees tracked by the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, not including US attorneys, judges, and some other positions. That was fewer than under Trump and the prior two presidents at the same point in their administrations.

The Partnership for Public Service has made suggestions for agencies to follow through on their strategic plans, new versions of which are to be issued early in 2022 covering four years.

The National Treasury Employees Union, National Federation of Federal Employees, the Partnership for Public Service and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association have all endorsed the legislation.

To make matters worse, roughly 1,200 of those 4,000 need Senate confirmation. The Post and the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service are tracking 802 of the most important of those 1,200 — and so far only 189 people have been confirmed and begun work.

Corbett and Graham were among 13 winners of the 2021 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America medals, which honor excellence in the federal work force. The “Sammies,” known as the “Oscars” of government service, are awarded by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.

The bill already has won the support of the National Treasury Employees Union, the National Federation of Federal Employees and the Partnership for Public Service.