Legislative and Policy Advisor

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position supports the Director through the Department of Executive/Legislative Affairs at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.

The execution of the program spans movement across a 243 acre campus as a component of official visits.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the 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.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: resolving congressional requests for information, requests for briefs, and congressional initiatives; preparing detailed analytical briefings and/or reports; and serving as a coordinator for proceedings of all dignitaries, government officials, congressional committees, and executives.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).

Major Duties:

• Serve as advisor and MTF/Network Liaison for legislative matters to resolve sensitive, complex executive and congressional requests for information, requests for briefs, congressional initiatives, and executive strategies.
• Evaluate new or modified legislation to identify projected impact upon the Medical Treatment Center’s (MTF) healthcare programs and resources.
• Provide qualitative and analytical responses to legislative actions which impact the healthcare programs and resources of the MTF and Network regional area healthcare support.
• Serve as the subject matter expert to resolve the sensitive, complex executive and congressional requests for information, requests for briefs, congressional initiatives, and execute strategies.
• Assist the Chief of Executive Legislative Affairs with the day-to-day operation of the department.
• Prepare analytical briefings/reports, incorporating multi-disciplinary clinical and administrative input for use with external audiences related to MTF activities, services, research, or specific issues of interest.
• Coordinate and support congressional briefings, legislative engagement as well as congressional delegation visits to MTF.