Legal Assistant (OA)

• Provide clerical support to professional/technical staff in their areas of expertise.
• Assist with identifying regulation and policies matters that impact office administration.
• Provide advice and assistance to other members of the office on routine administrative processes and issues.
• Receive telephone calls and visitors, provide information or other assistance, refers inquiries to appropriate staff members.
• Communicate with supervisors and staff members to determine their needs and to keep them informed.
• Maintain accurate time and attendance records.
• Coordinate administrative procedural functions within the office.
• Assist with organizational requirements for retention and/or disposal of the records.
• Assist with document preparation, ensuring correct format, readability, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Assist with property, equipment and supply accountability.
• Assist with office logistics including creation of travel orders, vouchers, and make associated travel reservations.

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• Temporary Duty travel of up to 25% may be required.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

• Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
• Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange Agreement
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
• Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
• Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible
• Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Minimum Qualifications for the GS-986-07:

Specialized Experience: I have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service which includes 1.) Performing office administrative functions such as; ensuring labor/time and attendance are accurately and appropriately reflected 2.) Using a purchase credit card to purchase supplies, 3.) Preparing travel orders to include processing vouchers, 4.) Providing customer service such as; greeting visitors and timely responding to email messages, phone calls and other communications and 5.) Using information technology to include computers, printers, scanners, standard office software applications, web-based video-teleconferencing, and accessing wireless internet and networks remotely. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-06).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Proficiency Required: This position requires a qualified typist. A qualified typist can type 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-06).