Rating Official Process for Required or Optional Reviewing Official Signature

If the Reviewing Official signature is required or optional, release the plan to the Reviewing Official for review and signature.

1. Click Release to Reviewing Official in Part 1. Employee Input.

   

2. The Reviewing Official will receive a notification to review and sign the plan. If you released the plan by mistake, click Recall from Reviewing Official.

   

3. Once the Reviewing Official signs, the plan is open for your signature. Click Sign in Part 1. Employee Input.

   

4. You will be asked to confirm your action. Click Yes.

   

5. Your signature now shows on the plan, and the employee will receive a notification to sign the plan.

What's next:

• If you need to remove your signature, see: → Removing Signatures
• If needed, the Rating Official is able to bypass the Employee Signature. See: Bypass Employee Signatures
• If you're the Reviewing Official → Sign a Performance Plan in the Planning Phase
• Once the necessary signatures have been added, the plan progresses to the next phase. To add and release progress notes to the plan, see: → Add and Release Progress Review Notes
• To sign in the next phase, see: → Sign a Performance Plan in the Monitoring Phase