Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

Full Job Description

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement. GS-13: To be eligible at the GS-13 level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level.

Specialized experience can be defined as experience providing administrative and technical legal expertise to attorneys; managing and analyzing case materials and documents; assessing litigation support resources needed and management of deliverables within established timelines; and organizing and preparing voluminous criminal litigation evidence in various media formats for efficient retrieval through automated means such as scanning, indexing, and controlling documents in a database in preparation for courtroom presentations.

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)-The CTAP provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies.

If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing that you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility, 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement, and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy.

To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria.

You must provide a copy of your written notification of CTAP eligibility with your application.

Additional information about CTAP eligibility is at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/. Major Duties:

As a Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist, you will support the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) by providing legal administration oversight and advisory services.

Duties include: Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets goals and priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work; Serves as a subject matter expert and principal legal support advisor to the executive staff for legal administrative matters and/or issues; Develops litigation support policies and procedures; Analyzes litigation support staff training needs based on periodic training needs assessments; Performs a variety of administrative work to meet the operational needs of the assigned areas; Advises on substantive paralegal projects for those attorneys working on the most complex federal cases; Independently researches and analyzes specific factual and legal questions which present a variety of issues, including new and complex areas; and Analyzes factual and legal issues to investigate facts and organize appropriate legal sources.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.