Supervisory Attorney Advisor (CR) (Division Director)
What you'd do
As a Supervisory Attorney Advisor (CR) (Division Director) at the GS-0905-15, you will be part of the Investigations and Compliance Division, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). If selected, you will be responsible for providing legal advice regarding the Commission's internal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) program to subordinate staff and EEOC top management.
Major duties
Serves as Director of the Investigations and Compliance Division, with direct responsibility for the division's functioning and staff. Ensures accomplishment of the division's mission by providing direction, coordination, and guidance to staff. Provides expert legal and technical advice to the OCR Director to ensure that internal EEO Program policies and goals are consistent with legal and statutory requirements, current case law, and EEOC policies and procedures Reviews Reports of Investigation (ROIs), Final Agency Decisions (FADs), and Final Orders (FOs) on the most complex cases to ensure legal sufficiency Assesses the legal implications of the office's actions and decisions. Applies broad knowledge of EEO laws, rules, regulations, and policies, and of alternative dispute resolution methods and the legal processes through which disputes of a legal or factual nature are resolved.
What you need to qualify
For the GS-15: You must have earned a professional law degree (J.D. or LL.B.) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association, be an active member of the BAR, and have four years of professional legal experience with at least one year being equivalent to the GS-14 level. Professional legal education above the first professional law degree may be substituted for experience required as follows:(a) The second professional law degree (LL.M) may be substituted for one year of experience (b) The third law degree (J.S.D) may be substituted for one year of experience beyond the LL.M. Attorneys appointed in the excepted service are required to maintain active membership in a bar within U.S. jurisdiction for the duration of their employment. Attorneys must provide documentation supporting active membership and good standing status (or equivalent) on at least an annual basis. Applicants must meet all eligibility requirements (e.g., time-in-grade and qualification requirements) within 30 days of the closing date specified in the vacancy announcement. 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This is a Schedule Policy/Career position. Schedule Policy/Career is an excepted service schedule for career positions that are of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character (policy-influencing positions) as defined by Executive Order 13957, as amended, and 5 C.F.R. § 213.3601. Schedule Policy/Career positions are not required to personally or politically support the current President or the policies of the current administration. Further, all actions taken under this policy must be carried out fairly, transparently, and in strict adherence to applicable laws. Employees in Schedule Policy/Career positions must faithfully implement administration policies to the best of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath and the vesting of executive authority solely in the President. Failure to do so is grounds for dismissal.
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