The Chief of Naval Personnel is seeking nominations July 27 for the fiscal year 2016 Human Resources Junior Officer of the Year (JOOY) Award.

The award was established to recognize one junior officer, O-4 and below, who has made noteworthy contributions to the Navy's readiness throughout the fiscal year.

Any Human Resources junior officers with the designators 1200, 1207 and 1205 may be nominated for the award through their commanding officer (CO) or officer in charge (OIC) endorsement. Nominations must be submitted by Sept. 30, 2016 to the Human Resources Center of Excellence (HRCOE).

Nomination packages should include the CO or OIC endorsement as a one page cover letter, completed OPNAV 1650/16 (HR JOOY nomination), completed OPNAV 1650/3 (Personal Award Recommendation) and completed Navy Commendation Medal citation. Packages should be written in Times New Roman font, no smaller than 12-point font size.

Block 2 of the Personal Award Recommendation should read Chief of Naval Personnel, 701 S. Courthouse Road, Arlington, VA 22204. Block 2a under UIC should read 45997.

Completed nomination packages should be submitted in PDF format (with the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal citation submitted in Microsoft Word format) to the Director, Human Resources Center of Excellence via the safe access file exchange at http://safe.amrdec.army.mil/SAFE, noting hrcoe@nps.edu as the recipient address.

A panel of six senior human resource officers will review the nominations and make a final recommendation for the award, pending approval from the Chief of Naval Personnel.

Additional information regarding the award can be found in OPNAVINST 1650.33A.

The winner will be announced later this year.

For further details, contact Human Resources Center of Excellence at hrcoe@nps.edu.


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