Has anyone applied to and gone through one of the Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Programs (SESCDP)? I saw a recent posting about a cohort opening at VA.
- What's the application process like
- What is the 12-24 month long program like
- Was it worth it?
A senior political adviser and a high-ranking Correctional Services officer have been arrested and charged with child abuse offences.
The pair, 38 and 37, were arrested late on Tuesday as a result of a SA Police/Federal Police Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET) investigation.
The 38-year-old is a senior adviser with a state MP and the 37-year-old is acting in an executive position with Correctional Services.
The men are well-known to each other and cannot legally be named until they appear in court, which is expected to happen on Wednesday.
Their arrests follow an investigation that stemmed from a separate SA JACET inquiry last year into a 39-year-old man.
Police will allege they found records of online conversations between the 39-year-old and a 27-year-old Victorian man about the sexual abuse of children.
When Victorian JACET investigators arrested the Melbourne man earlier this year and forensically analysed his devices, they allegedly found links to the 37-year-old and 38-year-old men in South Australia.
Investigators from SA JACET allegedly found a large amount of child abuse material on a USB device when they searched the 38-year-old’s home on Tuesday.
An office at Parliament House was also searched after a search warrant was served on Speaker Josh Teague to gain access.
The 38-year-old, from Adelaide, is expected to face Adelaide Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged with one count of producing child abuse material through a carriage service, two counts of aggravated possession of child exploitation material and two counts of possession of child exploitation material.
The 37-year-old, from Port Lincoln, is expected to appear in Port Lincoln Magistrates Court charged with two counts of producing child exploitation material, one count of indecent filming, one count of aggravated possession of child exploitation material and one count of disseminating child exploitation material.
Police are working to identify the children in the vision seized to check on their welfare and remove them from harm. Inquiries are also ongoing into any other potential offending.
Out of curiosity what does it take for an individual to reach that level within government? How can a person starting out at as a GS-7 eventually find themselves in the process of becoming an SES?
I'm the CIEIO
edit: No call to action. Im just sad that we can’t have free and fair markets. There’s always just crime at every corner and retail never gets a fair shake. Makes me sad.
What are the exit opportunities for those who are in the Senior Executive Service (SES)?
Do most folks make a career and retire as SES or do they leverage the position to further build their network and pivot into the Private Sector after 5-10 years?
McKinsey and Partnership for Public did a report on the SES ranks back in June 2016 on ways to improve retention and recruitment incentives. Not sure if things have changed since to entice individuals to stay vs resuming building to get a job that pays 2-5x in the Private Sector.
Fixing the SES lends insight into exit surveys conducted by OPM and interviews with existing SES who have done tours outside of Federal Government and amount of money, sometimes close to $100K, that they've turn down from Private Sector roles in order to stay SES.
Reference:
-
https://ourpublicservice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/4df40d1d237c9acd2f65a17085964206-1466544190.pdf
-
Fixing the SES: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2015/02/fixing-the-ses-this-used-to-be-an-honor-now-its-a-joke/
