PARALEGAL SPECIALIST
Air Education and Training Command
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PARALEGAL SPECIALIST
Defense Finance and Accounting Service
Department of Defense
Location
Cleveland, Ohio
Salary
$52,688 - $83,787
per year
Type
Full-Time
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GS-7 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $41,966 - $54,557
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-6. Bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement or 1 year graduate study.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This role involves reviewing court orders and legal documents related to financial matters like garnishments and bankruptcies for military pay, then researching laws to ensure everything complies and advising customers accordingly.
It's a starting position at GS-7 with potential to advance to GS-9, ideal for someone with basic legal or financial experience who enjoys detail-oriented work in a government setting.
A good fit would be an organized individual comfortable with research and helping people navigate complex rules.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-5 level, involving application of laws/regulations on financial or pay practices and using automated systems for transactions
- Time-in-Grade: 52 weeks at GS-5 or higher in federal service within the preceding 52 weeks
- Ability to review court orders and legal documentation for sufficiency
- Skills in analyzing cases, researching laws, and determining compliance with statutory requirements like service of process or pay exemptions
- Experience providing advice on garnishments, involuntary allotments, bankruptcies, and Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act
- Proficiency in conducting legal research on pay, collections, and related financial legal issues
- Qualifications must be met within 30 days after the announcement closing date
Full Job Description
This job announcement uses the USA Hire Assessment to evaluate applicants. For more information, visit USA Hire Assessment.
Positions will be filled at the GS-7 level with promotion potential to a GS-9.
Once eligibility and qualification requirements are met, you will be eligible for promotion at management discretion to the GS-9 without further competition.
The minimum salary for a GS-7 is $52,688 and the maximum is $68,496. The minimum salary for a GS-9 is $64,448 and the maximum is $83,787.
One year of specialized experience equivalent in level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the next lower grade (GS-5) within the federal service, which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position, is required.
Specialized experience is defined as: Applying laws, regulations, or policies governing financial or pay practices to assist customers with legal process or financial questions; and Using automated systems to review or process transactions.
Time-in-Grade: Current or former federal employees who have held a GS position in the preceding 52 weeks, must meet the time in grade requirement.
Applicant must have served 52 weeks as a GS-5 or higher grade in Federal Service.
** The effective date of your SF-50 must reflect that you will meet the 52-week time in grade requirement within 30 days of the announcement closing.
** You may qualify for consideration if meeting time-in grade, specialized experience, education requirement, 90 days after competitive appointment requirement, and all other qualification requirements within 30 calendar days after the closing date of the announcement, unless otherwise indicated on the announcement.
Major Duties:
- Receive and review various court orders to determine the sufficiency of the legal documentation submitted for consideration.
- Analyze facts of individual case and research the laws to determine whether statutory requirements (i.e. service to process, exemption of pay, or other support provisions) have been met.
- Provide advice/assistance to customers; make determinations of legal validity regarding all forms of garnishments, involuntary allotments, and bankruptcies and applications under Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Protection Act.
- Conduct legal research regarding pay, garnishments, involuntary allotments, bankruptcies, or collections.
- Duties will be developmental in nature when the position is filled below the full performance level.
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