Leadership
Kristen Dunn-Thomason, Division Director
Areas of responsibility
- Plans, coordinates, and implements the NIH employee development, enrichment, and retention activities throughout an individual’s career lifecycle and across the organization
- Manages job specific trainings, professional development courses, customized classes, administrative internship programs, and a comprehensive array of leadership programs
- Plans and implements the NIH Awards Program to recognize outstanding accomplishments that further the NIH mission
- Manages NIH New Employee Orientation and leads efforts around onboarding
- Guides NIH in workforce planning and advanced analytics
- Facilitates other workforce enhancement activities such as the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey and the NIH Competencies program
- Provides functional support to NIH for the HHS Learning Management System (LMS)
Structure
WSDD is comprised of the following:
NIH Training Center (NIHTC)
Elena Juris, Director
Barb LeClair, Deputy Director
Pam Welbon, Unit Chief, Programs
- Supports the development of NIH human capital through consultation and collaboration with key officials and other NIH training programs to provide agency-specific training, and career development programs
- Performs consulting services that are designed to enhance learning and to facilitate optimal individual, group, and organizational performance
- Formulates, organizes, plans, and executes goals and objectives toward significantly enhancing NIH-specific training and development opportunities for scientific and professional staff within the various Institutes and Centers
- Manages NIH Leadership Development, Presidential Management Fellow, and Management Intern programs
Strategic Workforce Analytics and Engagement Branch (SWAE)
Jonathan Lappin, Branch Chief
Sheila Verges-Osuna, Section Chief, Employee Engagement
- Supports the development of NIH human capital through consultation and collaboration with key officials and other NIH workforce offices/ programs to provide agency-specific career enhancement, engagement, and recognition programs
- Guides NIH in workforce planning and advanced analytics through the Workforce Planning and Analytics Unit
- Plans and implements the NIH Awards Program to recognize outstanding accomplishments that further the NIH mission through the NIH Director’s Awards, the HHS Secretary’s Awards, and HHS vetted external awards
- Facilitates NIH employee engagement programs, including coordinating the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) and the NIH Civility and Equity Survey (CES)
- Ensures that new hires at NIH are engaged with the NIH mission from the first day, understand Federal employment, and related responsibilities and benefits by coordinating NIH New Employee Orientation
- Facilitates employee development through the NIH Competencies Program