Closing Date: 7th May, 2024
Description:
Summary:About the Position: This is a General Attorney, GS-0905-13 position with the A Government Entity, Southwestern Division (SWD), Fort Worth District, Office of Counsel. This is a permanent and full-time position and will be located in Fort Worth, TX.
A recruitment or relocation incentive may be authorized for this position.**
Duties:
Requirements:
Conditions of Employment:
Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
Qualifications:
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
The following minimum qualification requirements must be met before applicants are eligible for further consideration:
Education: An applicant must have successfully completed a full course of study in a school of law accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and have the first professional law degree (LL.B. or J.D.). Law school transcripts must be submitted at the time of application.
Bar Membership: An applicant must currently be a member in good standing of the bar of a state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Experience: An applicant must have two or more years of professional legal experience, acquired after being admitted to the bar, commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the position. NOTE: The qualifying authority may make exceptions to the experience requirements when nominees possess special qualifications in place of those specified. For example, a second professional law degree (master of laws) or graduation with a distinguished record from an accredited law school (for example, in the top 25 percent of the class) may be substituted for 1 year of professional legal experience.
Time in Grade Requirement: If currently employed as an attorney by the Federal Government you must have completed one year at the next lower grade level within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement, or previously served at the same or higher grade as the position being filled.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Your application package will be evaluated to ensure your experience, knowledge, skills, training and/or education meet the qualification requirements stated in this vacancy announcement. Quality of experience relates to how closely or to what extent an applicant's background and recency of experience and education clearly reflect that you possess the following required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's) to successfully perform the duties of this position. The following KSA's must be addressed in your resume. Failure to do so may result in an ineligible rating or effect your overall rating.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs) Qualification Requirements:
1. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to providing legal advice on labor and employment issues and in providing representation as the Agency Representative before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and other administrative tribunals, and providing support to the DOJ when they are the attorney of record in court cases.
2. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to providing legal advice on government ethics, conducting government ethics trainings, holding briefings on employment conflict of interest, and engaging in government ethics-related legal reviews.
3. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to providing legal advice on, and in responding to FOIA requests, screening and preparing documents for release or denial, reviewing responsive materials to determine appropriateness of exemptions from release, and providing support to the DOJ in FOIA-related litigation. Other areas requiring knowledge, skills, abilities include, review of responses to Congressional inquiries, requests for information by civil/criminal litigants, and federal records management law.
4. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to Inspector General investigations, Financial Liability Investigation of Property Loss (FLIPL), and Army Regulation 15-6 investigations.
5. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to reviewing Contracting Officer Decisions, handling protests, claims and contract appeals, and providing legal advice on contract-related issues and representing the Agency before the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA).
6. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Education:
Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Duties:
- Works under the general supervision of the managing counsel to whom assigned.
- Responsible for the preparation or review of extremely complex legal issues, instruments, assemblies, or the preparation of legal opinions on complex questions relating to state and federal laws and regulations.
- Identifies, researches, and addresses extremely complex and difficult legal questions affecting USACE missions.
- Prepares legal opinions, or other legal instruments, and renders advice to clients on matters which require for their solution a high order of original and creative legal endeavor in order to obtain a reasonable balance of conflicting interests.
- Represents the office to which assigned in meetings, negotiations, conferences, presentations, hearings, administrative litigation, or other forums, with municipal, state, other federal agencies, and private stakeholders.
- Renders legal advice and assistance to all elements of the Command in response to inquiries on numerous types of miscellaneous problems arising from day-to-day operations and which vary from simple to difficult.
- Performs legal research necessary to furnish correct solutions and to explain probable results of various alternatives that may be developed.
Requirements:
Conditions of Employment:
Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
Qualifications:
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
The following minimum qualification requirements must be met before applicants are eligible for further consideration:
Education: An applicant must have successfully completed a full course of study in a school of law accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and have the first professional law degree (LL.B. or J.D.). Law school transcripts must be submitted at the time of application.
Bar Membership: An applicant must currently be a member in good standing of the bar of a state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Experience: An applicant must have two or more years of professional legal experience, acquired after being admitted to the bar, commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the position. NOTE: The qualifying authority may make exceptions to the experience requirements when nominees possess special qualifications in place of those specified. For example, a second professional law degree (master of laws) or graduation with a distinguished record from an accredited law school (for example, in the top 25 percent of the class) may be substituted for 1 year of professional legal experience.
Time in Grade Requirement: If currently employed as an attorney by the Federal Government you must have completed one year at the next lower grade level within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement, or previously served at the same or higher grade as the position being filled.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Your application package will be evaluated to ensure your experience, knowledge, skills, training and/or education meet the qualification requirements stated in this vacancy announcement. Quality of experience relates to how closely or to what extent an applicant's background and recency of experience and education clearly reflect that you possess the following required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's) to successfully perform the duties of this position. The following KSA's must be addressed in your resume. Failure to do so may result in an ineligible rating or effect your overall rating.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSAs) Qualification Requirements:
1. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to providing legal advice on labor and employment issues and in providing representation as the Agency Representative before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and other administrative tribunals, and providing support to the DOJ when they are the attorney of record in court cases.
2. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to providing legal advice on government ethics, conducting government ethics trainings, holding briefings on employment conflict of interest, and engaging in government ethics-related legal reviews.
3. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to providing legal advice on, and in responding to FOIA requests, screening and preparing documents for release or denial, reviewing responsive materials to determine appropriateness of exemptions from release, and providing support to the DOJ in FOIA-related litigation. Other areas requiring knowledge, skills, abilities include, review of responses to Congressional inquiries, requests for information by civil/criminal litigants, and federal records management law.
4. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to Inspector General investigations, Financial Liability Investigation of Property Loss (FLIPL), and Army Regulation 15-6 investigations.
5. Knowledge, skills, and ability as it applies to reviewing Contracting Officer Decisions, handling protests, claims and contract appeals, and providing legal advice on contract-related issues and representing the Agency before the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA).
6. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Education:
Foreign Education: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
