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Offshore Minerals Management has developed the Career Development Intern Program (CDIP) to recruit outstanding entry-level professional candidates and to give them the understanding of various aspects of OMM mandates, the web of professional relationships, and the experience in different functions they may need to begin working immediately on any of a wide variety of assignments as impending retirements create critical needs in Headquarters divisions.

A Career Development internship will last for 1-3 years. During this time each intern will work for a specified Headquarters division located in Herndon, Virginia. He/she will also spend time in other divisions and in the regional offices. The regional offices are located in New Orleans, Louisiana; Camarillo, California; and Anchorage, Alaska.

Some internship experiences will have immediate relevance; others may not seem as helpful until later in a former intern’s career. As a small agency with a fairly wide range of functions, MMS needs and values employees who are willing and able to function in different roles as their careers progress.

Within the intern’s first 60 days in this program, the intern and his/her mentor will develop an Individual Development Plan (IDP). The IDP will map out the intern’s career goals, training needs and rotational assignments. There will be numerous opportunities for rotational assignments. These will include:

bullet assignments in at least two HQ offices other than the employee’s base office, lasting one to four months
bullet an assignment in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office, lasting 3-4 months
bullet assignments lasting at least 1 week in each of the other regional offices, with specific assignments to shadow regional employees, to participate in HQ-Regional meetings, and/or to participate in regional office work projects

There may also be opportunities for visits to lease sales (auctions of oil and gas rights) both in the Gulf of Mexico and the Alaska OCS regions, to an offshore oil/gas platform, and to an active sand dredge operation.

Each intern will be hired as a probationary, career conditional (“permanent”) employee at the GS-5, GS-7, or GS-9 level, depending on her/his qualifications, in a suitable series for which each individual is qualified. These positions have the non-competitive potential to the GS-12 level.

Offshore Minerals Management expects outstanding performance of Career Development Interns. Those interns performing according to these expectations are likely to be promoted at the end of the first year of service (1-year internship) or at the end of each of the first 2 years of service (2-year internship).

After completing the internship with 1-3 years of service, the intern will be assigned to a staff position in the base division/office. Some interns, especially those hired at the GS-5 level, may elect to extend their internships for as much as a year while they work on developmental assignments that may not be available to them upon assignment to a target position.

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