The Office of Personnel Management will extend a pay freeze for top government officials that include high-level political appointees through the Jan. 19 government shutdown deadline, Government Executive reported Thursday.

Congress passed a four-week continuing resolution Dec. 19 that also extends a deadline for executive schedule pay freeze.

Acting OPM Director Kathleen McGettigan said the pay freeze will apply to all politically appointed members of the Senior Executive Service along with senior level officials that meet the EX-IV threshold at $164,200 in 2018.

“Until Congress acts on appropriations legislation, we will not know whether the pay freeze continues beyond January 19, 2018,” McGettigan added.

The State Department aims to select a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism as part of the 2004 Global Anti-Semitism Review Act, Government Executive reported Wednesday.

The incumbent will collaborate with the department’s bureau of democracy, human rights and labor to generate annual summaries of human rights strategies and international religious freedom.

The report noted the Senate has also asked the White House to resubmit approximately 200 previous nominations that were not approved including ambassadorships, managerial roles, Foreign Service Officer positions along with a United Nations alternative representative, for the second session of the 115th Congress.

“The Trump administration considers the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism to be a crucial position, and hopes to announce an appointment soon,” an unnamed State Department executive told Government Executive.

Scott Anderson, former director of services delivery and property management at the George Washington University, has been appointed as the General Services Administration‘s regional administrator for the National Capital Region.

Anderson will be responsible for GSA’s operations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, including oversight of federal real estate and information technology, the agency said Wednesday.

He previously held property management and contract negotiation roles for higher education campuses and federal agencies.

GSA also named Bruno Kelpsas, a former technical project manager at Worldlink, as regional administrator for the Northwest Arctic Region.

Kelpsas will manage GSA’s operations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, including 428 employees and an inventory of 508 government-owned or leased buildings.

He has more than 16 years of IT experience in the public and private sectors, in areas such as blockchain, cybersecurity and cloud computing.

Holly Greaves, senior adviser to the Environmental Protection Agency administrator for budget and audit, will be nominated by President Donald Trump as the next EPA chief financial officer.

The White House said Wednesday Greaves has extensive experience with federal accounting standards, financial and information technology environments as well as financial operations and management laws and regulations.

Greaves previously was lead developer of industry-specific training content at KPMG‘s federal audit practice, supporting lecturer on government accounting at George Washington University and associate for assurance and advisory services at Ernst and Young.

She received her bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in accountancy from the University of Tennessee.

Josephine Olsen, a more than four-decade social service veteran, has been nominated by President Donald Trump as director of the U.S. Peace Corps.

Olsen is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Maryland in Baltimore and has been a visiting professor at the university’s School of Social Work and a director for the Center for Global Education Initiatives over the past eight years, the White House said Wednesday.

She previously served as deputy and acting director of the Peace Corps from 2001 to 2009.

In the early years of her service with the agency, she worked as a volunteer in Tunisia, country director in Togo, regional director for operations in 17 countries and chief of staff.

She also served as senior vice president at the Academy for Educational Development and as an executive director for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

The Energy Department has begun its search for two business and industry analysts in support of the agency’s office of the chief information officer.

The selected candidates within DOE’s office of the deputy CIO for resource management will provide acquisition and management assistance for contracts and programs that support DOE’s national laboratories and headquarters, the agency said in a USAJobs notice.

The incumbents will be based in Germantown, Maryland, and will help develop and carry out vendor integration plans, contract modifications, work orders, contract approval and evaluation and contractor performance reporting as contracting officer’s representatives.

The chosen candidates will also help project teams create implementation plans in support of category management programs within the information technology area as well as support best practices related to IT acquisition and asset management through data collection.

DOE will accept applications for the position through Jan. 16.