R 101639Z OCT 12

ALCGPSC 133/12
SUBJ: PY13 RESERVE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR (RPA) APPLICATION PROCESS
A. Officer Accessions, Evaluations, and Promotions, COMDTINST M1000.3
B. Schedule of Active Duty Promotion List (ADPL) and Inactive Duty
Promotion List (IDPL) Officer Boards and Panels, PSCNOTE 1401.
1. Applications for the Promotion Year 2013 (PY13) RPA Designation
Board are due by 16 November 2012. The board will convene on 11
December 2012 to consider officers for designation as provisional
RPAs. This is a two-phase board. Officers selected during phase one
in December will receive orders to travel to CG PSC for an interview
during the week of 8 January 2013.  RPAs can expect an exciting and
unique career in connection with organizing, administering,
recruiting, instructing, or training the reserve force to meet
present and future Coast Guard mission requirements.
2. RPA program:
A. The RPA Corps consists of reserve officers serving in full-time
support positions at sectors, districts, and HQ units. RPAs may also
perform tours in other appropriately related specialties to broaden
their professional expertise. RPAs should expect to serve primarily
in staff-tour assignments. Regular officers who apply for RPA
designation must also be eligible to be considered by one of the
quarterly Regular to Reserve Commission Panels convened to consider
regular officers on the Active Duty Promotion List (ADPL) for a
reserve commission.
B. RPAs are considered separately for promotion during the same
promotion year (PY), and promoted the same day, as their ADPL running
mates. Officers do not lose their precedence transitioning from the
ADPL or IDPL to the RPA promotion list.
C. RPA's are eligible to apply for full time post-graduate school
specializing in Financial Management, OPS research, and Performance
Technology.
D. RPAs are on full-time Extended Active Duty (EAD) orders and have
the same entitlements and benefits as regular officers, including
the opportunity to earn an active-duty retirement.
3. Those officers designated as provisional RPAs will be offered
three-year EAD contracts and can expect assignment to a
training/developmental billet. After two years of active duty,
provisional RPAs are considered for permanent RPA status via a board
convened by CG PSC-opm. An RPA who acquires permanent status receives
indefinite orders to active duty and serves on active duty until
separation or retirement.
4. Service requirements: Per Ref (A) Chapter 1.B.3.c., to qualify for
designation as a provisional RPA, an active duty ADPL officer or
Inactive Duty Promotion List (IDPL) Reserve officer in the grade of
lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade) must have at least two years
of commissioned service in the Coast Guard or Coast Guard Reserve
when the RPA designation board convenes. Lieutenants must have three
or fewer years in grade when the board convenes. No waivers for time
in grade will be accepted. Retired officers are not eligible for RPA
designation.
5. Application process:
A. Applications are submitted via Direct Access E-Resume. Members
complete an E-Resume and select RPA appointment from the position
source pull down menu and click search. Click the check box next to
PY13 RPA appointment position in job basket column. Although it
has a job code of LT (00096), this code is used for all ranks. Press
add selected to job basket button. When complete, press view job
basket to review your job basket, press apply for jobs in
basket button and complete your E-Resume. State your reasons for
applying to the RPA Program in the E-Resume comments section.
B. Commanding Officer endorsements are required as part of the E-
Resume process. Endorsements shall address: The applicants
managerial potential, analytical, planning and writing skills, and
an opinion of their value to the service as a RPA. Only endorsements
from the immediate command are authorized. In job endorsement page
under recommendation drop-down menu, Commanding Officers should
choose "make offer" to positively endorse members application.
Commanding Officers should ensure that they click on the button
marked final for the member's application to be considered completed.
Additional letters of recommendation or endorsements will not be
considered and if submitted will be returned without action.
Communications to the board from a candidate will not be accepted.
C. All applicants should ensure their current OERs and Record of
Professional Development (CG-4082) are in their records.
6. All officers under consideration are encouraged to review their
Employee Summary Sheet (ESS). The ESS provides a consolidated view of
a member's information as it appears in the Coast Guard's
Enterprise-Wide Human Resources Management System, Direct Access
(DA). All officers applying are encouraged to review their official
Electronically-Imaged Personnel Data Record (EI-PDR). To find out
more about obtaining a copy of your CG PSC EI-PDR, please visit the
CG PSC-psd-mr website at http://www.uscg.mil/psd/mr.
7. All candidates should update their contact information including
personal phone and email address in Direct Access prior to the board
convening.
8. Schedule:
A. 16 November 2012 E-Resumes are due.
B. 11 December 2012 Phase one will convene to review all applications
and records.
C. Week of 8 JAN 2013 Phase two: Conduct face-to-face interviews.
D. Those selected as provisional RPA's will initiate their EAD
contracts OOA 1 JUL 2013.
9. All Commanding Officers and Senior Reserve Officers: Ensure
widest dissemination to all officers within your AOR.
10. For RPA career info contact the RPA Program Manager: CDR Ruby L.
Collins at (202)475-5455, Ruby.L.Collins(at)uscg.mil.
11. Points of contact in CG PSC-rpm-1 are:
A. Officer Management Issues: LCDR Scott C. Toves, (202)493-1720.
B. Boards/Panels Section Chief: LT Dana Pieper, (202)493-6912.
C. Board/Panel Assistant Coordinator: CWO2 Pam L. Thompson-Yancey,
(202)493-1789.
D. Status/Evaluations Section Chief: LT Eric Meaders, (202)493-1708.
E. Reserve OES Manager: LT Eric Watson, (202)493-1721.
F. OER submissions and inquiries: arl-pf-cgpsc-rpmoer(at)uscg.mil.
G. Other reserve officer inquiries:
arl-pf-cgpsc-rpm-query(at)uscg.mil
H. Military Records: CG PSC-psd-mr: Mr. John D. Evans, (202)493-1661.
12. RDML Dave Callahan, Commander, CG Personnel Service Center,
sends.
13. Internet release authorized.