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Roger W. Jones Award Nomination Procedure

The criteria for this prestigious award for federal career executives (members of SES) are demonstrated exceptional capabilities in the following areas:

  • superior leadership which has resulted in outstanding organizational achievements
  • a strong commitment to bringing about effective continuation of government by helping to develop the careers of people who will serve as managers and executives in the future federal service

Presidential appointees and other administration appointees are invited each spring to submit nominations of career executives responsible to them who have demonstrated outstanding executive leadership.

To nominate a candidate, the following four documents are requested:

  • a brief biographical sketch including employment and significant awards (not to exceed two pages)
  • a narrative description of the nominee’s superior leadership that resulted in outstanding organizational achievement, making clear the achievement’s nature and significance and the career executives specific role (not to exceed three pages)
  • a narrative description of the nominee’s strong commitment to effective continuity of government, through successful development of managers and executives, including the nominee’s specific actions and success in institutionalizing the development of career executives and individual managers and executives (not to exceed three pages)
  • a signed cover letter from the head of the agency, or other appropriate administration appointee, recommending the nominee for the award.

Nominations are due April 26, 2013 and may be submitted online or by mail to:

Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership
Office of the Dean
School of Public Affairs, Ward 310
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016-8022
202-885-2941
rogerjonesaward@american.edu

The award ceremony, held in the fall on the American University campus, honors the year’s two recipients, each of whom also receives a cash prize of $2,500.


SELECTION COMMITTEE

David M. Walker, Chair
Founder and CEO, Comeback America Initiative
Former Comptroller General of the United States

Charles Bowsher
Former Comptroller General of the United States

Mortimer Downey
Former Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation

Harold B. Finger
Former Associate Administrator for Management
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

John W. Hill
Chief Executive Officer, Federal City Council

James C. Miller III
Former Director, Office of Management and Budget

Frances Fragos Townsend (SPA/BA '82)
Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism


AMERICAN UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE FOR THE ROGER W. JONES AWARD

Cornelius M. Kerwin
President

William M. LeoGrande
Dean, School of Public Affairs

Bernard Rosen
Former Executive Director, United States Civil Service Commission
Distinguished Adjunct Professor Emeritus, School of Public Affairs

Robert Cleary
Former Executive Secretary, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Professor Emeritus, School of Public Affairs