---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 330.103"
title: "5"
number: "330.103"
heading: "Requirement to notify OPM."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/330.103"
---

# §330.103. Requirement to notify OPM.


An agency must provide the vacancy announcement information to OPM promptly when:

- (a) Filling a vacancy for more than 120 days from outside the agency's current permanent competitive service workforce, as required by the Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan, [subpart G](/cfr/5/subpartG.md) of this part, unless the action to be taken is listed in [subpart G](/cfr/5/subpartG.md) as an exception to that subpart;
- (b) Filling any vacancy under the agency's merit promotion procedures when the agency will accept applications from outside its permanent competitive service workforce; and
- (c) Filling a vacancy by open competitive examination, including direct hire procedures under [part 337](/cfr/5/part337.md) of this chapter, or in the Senior Executive Service, as required by [5 U.S.C. 3327](/usc/5/3327.md).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1104, 1302, 3301, 3302, 3304, and 3330; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR, 1954-58 Comp., p. 218; Section 330.103 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3327; Subpart B also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3315 and 8151; Section 330.401 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3310; Subparts F and G also issued under Presidential Memorandum on Career Transition Assistance for Federal Employees, September 12, 1995; Subpart G also issued under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) and 8456(b). § 330.1301 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 9201-9206 and Pub. L. 116-92, sec. 1122(b)(1). Link to an amendment published at 91 FR 49216, Aug. 3, 2026.

### Source

Source: 75 FR 67593, Nov. 3, 2010, unless otherwise noted.