Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement. There are no education requirements for this position. 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.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress. 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