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Description:
Summary:An ideal candidate should have knowledge in one or more of the following: Providing legal advice on federal acquisitions and procurements, and litigation experience before the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA).
Duties:
What will I do in this position if hired?
In this position, you will advise the Office of the Chief Component Procurement Officer and the rest of the agency on legal matters pertaining to federal acquisitions and procurements. Typical assignments include:
- Providing oral and written advice, analysis, interpretations, and guidance on complex and sensitive legal and policy matters, such as reviewing solicitation packages, statements of work, and contract specifications.
- Participating as counsel on source selections; provide oral and written advice on pre-award procurement issues such as the adequacy of solicitations, sole source awards, mistakes in bids, and agency protests.
- Represent the agency in bid protest and claims before the GAO and CBCA.
- Developing and presenting training on federal acquisition and procurement issues to agency personnel.
What else do I need to know?
At A Government Entity, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at A Government Entity has a role in emergency management. Every A Government Entity employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.This announcement is for a position as a Core (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). Core employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Appointments to CORE positions are typically between two years and four years in duration and may be renewed based upon workload needs and funding availability. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at A Government Entity.
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Requirements:
Conditions of Employment:
- You must be a U.S. citizen to be considered for this position.
- You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- Travel may be required.
- You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government credit card.
- Selective service registration is required for males born after 12/31/59.
- Please review "Other Information" section for additional key requirements.
To ensure the accomplishment of our mission, DHS requires every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo, successfully pass, and maintain a background investigation for Public Trust/High Risk as a condition of placement into this position. This may include a credit check after initial job qualifications are determined, a review of financial issues, such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligations, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs (please visit: Mythbuster on Federal Hiring Policies for additional information). For more information on background investigations for Federal jobs, please visit OPM Investigations.
Please ensure you meet the qualification requirements described below.
Qualifications:
All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
All applicants must possess the following:
- A J.D. or LL.B. degree from an ABA accredited law school; and
- An active membership, in good standing, of the bar of a state, territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
To qualify for this position at the IC-12 level (starting salary $94,199), you must possess one year of full-time professional legal experience gained after being admitted to the bar equivalent to at least the IC-11 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the Federal or Private Sector and must demonstrate all of the following:
- Providing oral and written advice, analysis, interpretations, and guidance on basic to moderately complex assignments and sensitive legal and policy matters;
- Drafting and reviewing documents for consistency with all applicable legal authorities and requirements, to include: analysis and advice, directives and other internal policies and procedures, correspondence.
To qualify for this position at the IC-13 level (starting salary $112,015), you must possess two years of full-time, professional legal experience gained after being admitted to the bar. Your experience must include at least one full year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the next lower grade IC-12 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the Federal or Private Sector and must demonstrate all of the following:
- Providing oral and written advice, analysis, interpretations, and guidance on basic to moderately complex assignments and sensitive legal and policy matters;
- Drafting and reviewing documents for consistency with all applicable legal authorities and requirements, to include: analysis and advice, directives and other internal policies and procedures, correspondence, reports, memoranda, testimony, regulations, legislation, agreements, and other such documents.
Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application:
- Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.
- Please limit your resume to five pages. If more than five pages are submitted, only the first five pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility and qualifications.
- Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience.
Are you qualifying based on your work experience?
- Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the occupational series, grade level, and dates in which you held each grade level.
- Are you a current or former A Government Entity Reservist/DAE employee? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment.
- Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found “not qualified.”
- 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, religio
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