General

If you are required to conduct DE work independently as part of your current job, you are required to hold DE certification. Beginning the day after your DE certification expires, you are no longer authorized to perform DE functions independently. Any DE work activities you perform must be under the close oversight of an individual certified in DE. Only staff certified in DE may post job announcements and issue certificates.

When providing oversight for a non-DE-certified staff member, the DE-certified individual must review job announcements before posting, review qualifications determinations and veterans’ preference adjudications, and review certificates of eligibles before issuance. Non-DE-certified staff may perform the work necessary to draft a job opportunity announcement and/or prepare a certificate of eligibles, but the individual who posts the announcement or issues the certificate must be certified in DE. We understand there may be limited circumstances where non-DE-certified staff post announcements or issue certificates in the automated system. In those instances, the examining case files must be clearly documented with the name of the DE-certified individual who reviewed and approved the announcement and/or the certificate, which includes the qualification determinations and veterans’ preference adjudications. This DE-certified individual is accountable for the accuracy and correctness of the posted announcement and/or certificate.