id: "PS-02" title: "Position Risk Designation" family: "PS" family_name: "Personnel Security" sort_id: "ps-02" priority: "P2" implementation_level: "organization"
Assign a risk designation to all organizational positions;
Establish screening criteria for individuals filling those positions; and
Review and update position risk designations {{ insert: param, ps-02_odp }}.
Guidance
Position risk designations reflect Office of Personnel Management (OPM) policy and guidance. Proper position designation is the foundation of an effective and consistent suitability and personnel security program. The Position Designation System (PDS) assesses the duties and responsibilities of a position to determine the degree of potential damage to the efficiency or integrity of the service due to misconduct of an incumbent of a position and establishes the risk level of that position. The PDS assessment also determines if the duties and responsibilities of the position present the potential for position incumbents to bring about a material adverse effect on national security and the degree of that potential effect, which establishes the sensitivity level of a position. The results of the assessment determine what level of investigation is conducted for a position. Risk designations can guide and inform the types of authorizations that individuals receive when accessing organizational information and information systems. Position screening criteria include explicit information security role appointment requirements. Parts 1400 and 731 of Title 5, Code of Federal Regulations, establish the requirements for organizations to evaluate relevant covered positions for a position sensitivity and position risk designation commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of those positions.
Assessment Objective: a risk designation is assigned to all organizational positions;
Assessment Objective: screening criteria are established for individuals filling organizational positions;
Assessment Objective: position risk designations are reviewed and updated {{ insert: param, ps-02_odp }}.
Personnel security policy
procedures addressing position categorization
appropriate codes of federal regulations
list of risk designations for organizational positions
records of position risk designation reviews and updates
system security plan
other relevant documents or records
Organizational personnel with personnel security responsibilities
organizational personnel with information security responsibilities
Organizational processes for assigning, reviewing, and updating position risk designations
organizational processes for establishing screening criteria