Career Progression of Junior Professional Officers

Year
2015
Author(s)
Joseph Carbonaro - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Barbara Hoffheins - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Susan E. Pepper - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tanya Collins - Brookhaven National Laboratory
Abstract
The U.S. Support Program (USSP) to IAEA Safeguards has funded more than 25 Junior Professional Officer (JPO) positions in the IAEA Department of Safeguards since 2005. JPOs are college graduates with zero to two years’ work experience who work alongside experienced IAEA staff members for one to two years and assist with basic, yet essential work while obtaining valuable experience. They contribute to equipment development, testing, integration, open source information collection and analysis, and software and database development. This paper will study the trends in career progression for the JPOs who have completed assignments with the IAEA in the Department of Safeguards. Brookhaven National Laboratory, in its role in managing the USSP, has compiled information that can be analyzed for this purpose.