Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

If selected, you will serve as a Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Western District of Washington. Typical work assignments will include:

• Supervising and managing a staff of legal support professionals. This includes planning work to be accomplished, setting goals and priorities, developing training plans, and monitoring individual staff performance;
• Reviewing and recommending revisions, additions, or removal of position descriptions and job series based on the Department's and District's evolving priorities to support the mission;
• Providing technical advice to litigation teams on managing incoming and outgoing discovery in the Office's most complex criminal cases, many of which involve voluminous discovery, multiple defendants, multiple jurisdictions, and/or multiple law enforcement or client agencies;
• Using the advanced functions of document review software tools to organize and review discovery materials, including by devising and conducting searches, creating and applying logical tags, applying annotations, sorting and filtering files, and manually coding database fields in ways that facilitate case development;
• Performing quality control checks of discovery productions prior to transmission, and addressing identified issues;
• Preparing written summaries of witness statements and testimony, audio or video recordings, and documentary evidence, to assist attorneys with case development and preparation;
• Preparing exhibits and demonstratives for use in legal proceedings that comply with applicable court rules;
• Conducting complex factual and legal research in legal and non-legal databases in support of investigations and cases.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• If selected, you will be subject to the satisfactory completion of a one year supervisory or managerial probationary period unless this requirement has been met previously.
• Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

Qualifications

GS-12: To be eligible at the GS-12 level, you must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience working in a legal environment providing a wide range of legal and administrative services to one or more attorneys in complex criminal matters. Examples of specialized experience include:

• Managing discovery in a variety of formats, including paper, PDF files, image files, audio files, video files, forensic reports, proprietary files, and other electronic files types;
• Utilizing appropriate software applications to organize, store, review, and manage voluminous discovery and evidence;
• Using software to apply electronic endorsements of discovery productions, such as redacting sensitive information, generating searchable versions of files, copying electronic materials to external media or file transfer systems, and encrypting materials;
• Analyzing extensive discovery or evidentiary materials, including documentary records, witness statements, and audio, video, and image files, evaluating the materials' value or relevance to the matters under investigation;
• Supporting hearing or trial preparation activities, including preparing trial subpoenas, preparing and maintaining witness lists and witness schedules, and assembling and maintaining exhibit lists and exhibit binders;
• Conducting factual and legal research in legal and non-legal databases in support of investigations and cases; conducting research of legislation, statutes, regulations, and court cases.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)- The ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in the 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 proof of eligibility to receive selection priority. Such proof may include a copy of your written notification of ICTAP eligibility or a copy of your separation personnel action form. Additional information about ICTAP eligibility is at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

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/.

Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) -VEOA allows eligible veterans to apply and compete for positions announced under merit promotion procedures when the hiring agency is recruiting from outside its own workforce. To be eligible for a VEOA appointment, a veteran must be honorably separated and either a preference eligible or have substantially completed three (3) or more years of continuous active military service. If you are applying for a Merit Promotion announcement and wish to be considered under VEOA, you must submit a copy of the Member Copy 4 of your DD-214, in addition to any other required documents listed on this announcement.

Special Employment Consideration - Persons with disabilities, veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more, certain other veterans, spouses of certain members of the armed forces, and returning Peace Corps volunteers are examples of individuals who are potentially eligible for non-competitive appointments. For further information, click on the links provided below . You must specify in your online questionnaire under what authority you wish to be considered and submit appropriate documentation to verify your eligibility.
Noncompetitive Appointment Authorities Links:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/competitive-hiring/#url=Types-of-Appointments