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Roland Edwards

Roland Edwards

Chief Human Capital Officer

Department of Homeland Security

Roland Edwards serves as the Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As the DHS CHCO, Mr. Edwards advises senior leadership and Components on the full range of human resources (HR) functional areas. Managing a broad portfolio, serving a workforce of more than 260,000 civilian and military members, requires close collaboration with Component Human Capital Officers as well as alignment across the Management Directorate lines of business. Central to this portfolio is oversight of Human Resources Information Technology and preparing DHS for the future of work.

Mr.Edwards was previously the Deputy CHCO for DHS with a particular emphasis on service delivery to Headquarters offices; diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility; and internal operations of the CHCO Office. Prior to this role, he served as Deputy Director, Human Resources Management and Services (HRMS) for DHS Headquarters in OCHCO. Mr. Edwards had direct oversight of the Executive Services team, Business Analytics team and the Learning and Development Institute. As the Deputy Director, he also assisted the Executive Director in providing oversight of all of the HR functional areas and overall management of HRMS.

Prior to serving as the HRMS Deputy Director, Mr. Edwards was the Deputy Director, Executive Resources in OCHCO. In this role, he assisted the Director in managing all aspects of performance for the team and workload. This included Senior Executive Service (SES) staffing for Department-wide and headquarters organizations, political staffing, executive (SES, Senior Level -SL, and Scientific and Professional -ST) policy, SES/SL/ST performance management system certification, annual SES/SL/ST performance management, Presidential Rank Award nominations, and biennial allocations of new SES/SL/ST positions.

Prior to DHS, Mr. Edwards worked at the Office of Personnel Management as a manager in the government-wide SES office and served as an Associate Director in Human Resources for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He received his Bachelor of Science and master's degree from the University of Maryland.


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