Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team providing supervisory legal administrative support. Typical work assignments will include:

• Plans and organizes employee work assignments, milestones, and deadlines to be accomplished by employees for trial preparation and other legal support activities;
• Provides technical advice, guidance, and training to legal support staff;
• Performs legal research and provides a variety of legal assistance and technical work requiring a specialized knowledge of processes, procedures, and practices to support legal activities.
• Coordinates with other administrative functional areas in order to support the office's litigative activities.
• Ensures an even flow and distribution of work, expeditiously while handling priority work to meet court deadlines during the coverage of arraignment functions Monday through Saturday (including holidays).
• Provides briefings to AUSAs and police officers on Intake/Papering/arraignment procedural matters.
• Directs the intake/papering process.
• Informs the Court regarding readiness of cases for arraignment.
• Overseas the execution of criminal history checks and backgrounds investigations, on arrestees.
• Coordinates fugitive matters with law enforcement agencies in other jurisdictions.

• 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 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.

To be qualified at the GS-12 level, you must have one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service which has equipped you with the competencies to perform the duties of the position.

Specialized experience is defined as working in a legal environment providing technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation requirements and systems capabilities; organizing and managing case specific discovery; analyzing complex litigation support requirements to develop or recommend appropriate strategies to meet litigation needs; and preparing and maintaining a variety of trial-related documents.

Noncompetitive Appointment Authorities Links:
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/competitive-hiring/#url=Types-of-Appointments