Kim Bauhs

Kim Bauhs became the NOAA Human Capital Officer effective March 2015.  Ms. Bauhs is a U.S. Navy veteran with over 30 years of service in the public sector.  As the HCO and Director of the Office of Human Capital Services, she is responsible for a broad range of human capital functions and activities, including those necessary to attract, develop, and retain a mission-capable workforce: consulting services; workforce analytics and HC strategy; policy; talent management and talent development programs; quality assurance; labor and employee relations; executive services; and human resources information technology.  She is NOAA’s lead for the implementation of Commerce HR shared services.
Ms. Bauhs has been a member of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service since 2007.  Prior to her position at NOAA, she served in executive roles at the Department of Homeland Security as the DHS Chief Learning Officer and as the Human Capital Officer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 
Ms. Bauhs honed her knowledge of Federal HR during her tenure at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), where she served as the assistant director for federal recruitment and hiring.  There she oversaw USAJOBS, the Federal Government’s one-stop source for jobs and employment information.  In that role, Ms. Bauhs led a government-wide effort to transform USAJOBS in support of the federal hiring reform.  She also participated in OPM teams that focused on hiring reform, diversity recruitment and outreach, and the employment of veterans and individuals with disabilities. 
While at OPM, Ms. Bauhs served in other senior-level positions including: the assistant director for the human resources consulting program, a $40-million federal consulting practice that met the needs of agencies across government in the areas of testing, staffing, and other human resource services; and the acting director of OPM’s Presidential Management Fellows Program. 
Ms. Bauhs began her career as an officer in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power program where she taught mathematics and physics.  She later worked for the Virginia Employment Commission as the agency human resources director and at the National Institutes of Health in training and strategic management planning. 
Ms. Bauhs has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the College of Charleston, South Carolina, and a Master of Science degree in organizational development and human resources from Johns Hopkins University.  She is an alumnus of the Virginia Executive Institute and the Federal Executive Institute.