Supervisory Legal Assistant

As the Supervisory Legal Assistant (Office Automation) in the Criminal Division, you will be responsible for directly and independently supporting Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSA) by providing a wide variety of technical assistance services. You will also be responsible for supervising the legal assistants and ensuring that the work assignments of the Criminal Division are accomplished. This position will be filled in either the Fresno or Bakersfield branch offices. Duties include (but are not limited to):

• Provides a variety of direct legal support assistance services to serviced AUSA staff.
• Examines, prepares and processes a variety of technical legal documents which are characteristically voluminous and complex in format.
• Supervises the Legal Assistants in the unit.
• Distributes work, monitors status of work in progress and ensures uniform high quality of work product.

• 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.

GS-10: To be eligible at the GS-10 level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level.

Specialized experience for this grade level includes demonstrating the ability to provide leadership and guidance to subordinate staff; providing training, and distributing and monitoring work in progress. Additionally, experience includes legal work performed in any legal setting or office where the candidate has independently drafted and processed legal documents; performed legal research to verify citations using online legal resources; prepared complex legal documents and materials containing tables and graphs; and the ability to independently assemble exhibits, affidavits, and other legal documents from file material.

To be qualified, you must type at least 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. (A typing test may later be required.)

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/.