Become a PMF
Application Process
Nominations
In addition to submitting an application, you must be nominated
by your school's Dean, Chairperson, or Academic Program Director,
otherwise known as the Nomination Official, of your graduate
program to be considered for the PMF Program. Contact the
Dean's Office or Career Services Office to determine the
appropriate Nomination Official; the PMF Program Office
does not maintain a list of Nomination Officials. You must
provide the personalized PMF Nomination Form that is provided
during the application process to the appropriate Nomination
Official. You should check your school for its specific
nomination procedures and deadlines.
Schools must conduct a competitive process to determine which
students to nominate based upon the following:
- Breadth and quality of accomplishments,
- Capacity for leadership, and
- A commitment to excellence in the leadership and management of
public policies and programs.
Schools will determine preliminary eligibility for veterans'
preference. Any student who is eligible for veterans' preference
and qualifies for nomination must be nominated by the school.
You can periodically check your application status in your
Application Manager account created during the application process.
If, during the application process, the system indicates
"Qualifications (Other) document is missing/incomplete," it may be
because your Nomination Official has either not nominated you or
has not yet submitted the PMF Nomination Form. NOTE: The category
type of "Qualifications" may change to "Other" after planned
systems upgrades take effect for Application Manager in October
2011. If the Nomination Official finds you qualified and nominates
you, he/she must fill out the bottom portion of the PMF Nomination
Form and fax it by the nomination deadline. The PMF Nomination Form
should be retained by Nomination Officials for their records, along
with a fax transmission report showing the fax was submitted
successfully. The deadline for submission of nominations from the
school's Nomination Officials is 11:59:59pm (ET), Friday, September
30, 2011.
You should wait a few business days after the nomination
deadline to check the status of your nomination form. If the status
has not changed, the applicant should check with your school's
Nomination Official; not all applicants are found qualified or are
nominated. You will be officially informed, via email, of your
nomination status approximately 3-4 weeks after the nomination
deadline.
Applicants should use the version of the PMF
Nomination Form obtained during the application
process. This version pre-populates with applicant
data that is used to scan and read the nomination form upon
submission by the Nomination Official. Applicants are informed
to have the latest version of the free Adobe Reader in order for
the nomination form to pre-populate during the application
process. A customized blank version is available under the Become A
PMF\Application Process webpage for those applicants who
encounter a technical problem during the application process and/or
lose their original nomination form during the application
process. Use of this version will require the applicant to
handwrite their entries and submit to their Nomination
Official.
UPDATED: 09-14-2011, 5:00 PM (ET)