Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist (Chief, Litigation Support Division)

Full Job Description

For more information on the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx. For more information on the Department of Justice and the U.S.

Attorney's Office, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/. As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement. This position is located in the Houston office.

GS-14 Minimum Qualifications Requirement: To be eligible at the GS-14 level, you must meet the specialized experience requirement defined below: Specialized Experience: You must have one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level in Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as: experience supervising a legal support staff; identifying employee training needs; evaluating employee performance; assigning work projects and establishing deadlines; providing paralegal support to a professional attorney staff; providing administrative and technical services with litigation support, eDiscovery services, and complex data management.

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:

If selected for this position, you will serve as the District Litigation Support Manager responsible for overseeing the Litigation Support program, including planning and directing the program, with the goal of providing state-of-the-art secure, efficient, and effective litigation support to Assistant U.S.

Attorneys representing the United States in State and Federal courts throughout the Southern District of Texas. If selected, you will receive formal and/or on-the-job training as needed.

Typical work assignments will include: Supervises Deputy Chief of Litigation Support Division, Criminal, Appellate, and Civil Division supervisory legal support staff and other staff; 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; Analyzes factual and legal issues to investigate facts and organize appropriate legal sources; Designs, plans, and manages the district's litigation support processes ensuring that the program implements state-of-the art technologies and management processes to advance investigatory and litigation priorities; Oversees Litigation Support system security by ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems, networks, and data through the planning, analysis, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of information systems security programs, policies, procedures, and tools.

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