FAMILY LIFE

Family Member Employment Assistance

You may be eligible for preferential consideration
when you apply for a NAFI position within MCCS!

 
When do you qualify for spouse employment preference:

  • If you're married to an active duty military member before the military sponsor's relocation to the new duty station.
  • If you transfer with your military spouse within a commuting area of the permanent duty station of the sponsor.
  • Your spouse reporting date is 30 days prior, and continues throughout the tour.
  • You will be referred for an interview if you're one of the top candidates for an NF-3 positions and below.

When are you ineligible for spouse preference:

  • NF-4 positions and higher.
  • If you have been placed into, or declined a position.
  • Reassignments or transfers from one position to another.
  • Military spouse preference previously used to obtain position at that location.
  • Married to military sponsor after military sponsor's receipt of official PCS orders.

Military Spousal Preference applicants hired in a flexible position will not lose their spouse preference eligibility until movement or hired into a regular full or part time position. Once the spouse accepts or declines such a federal position at the new duty station, eligibility terminates, whether or not the position was obtained through spouse preference.

Spouses with less than 6 months time remaining in the area may be non-selected for permanent continuing positions.

Spouse preference may be exercised once per permanent relocation of military. If spouse preference is used to obtain a NAF vacancy, it cannot be used a second time for a civil service/APF vacancy, or vice versa.