Job Summary

About the Position: This is a permanent position with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of Counsel, Huntsville Engineering and Support Center, Redstone Arsenal AL. This is an excepted service position without time limitation and will not be filled by a competitive appointment. Service in this position may be fully creditable toward civil service retirement. Any selected applicant who is in the competitive service will be taken out of the competitive service.

Job Description

Who May Apply: US Citizens The minimum qualification requirements must be met before applicants are eligible for further consideration: Bar membership: Applicant must currently be a member in good standing of the bar of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Professional Legal Experience: For GS-14 equivalent - Applicant must have three or more years of professional legal experience, acquired after being admitted to the bar, commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the position. Graduation from an ABA-Accredited Law School in the top 25% of the class or an advanced law degree such as an LLM may substitute for one year of the required professional legal experience. NOTE: ALL APPLICANTS SHOULD ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES, IN NARRATIVE FORM: a. Legal advice on complex issues. Ability to provide advice on general matters to include interpretation of authorizing and appropriations legislation and administrative law matters. Ability to perform research and analysis, obtaining and evaluating expert information or testimony, and issues involving extremely complex and difficult legal questions in the drafting of agreements and memoranda, and in the interpretation of multiple overlapping or conflicting statutory authorities. Ability to conduct factual legal research in connection with complex policy issues related to federal environmental law, contract law, grants and cooperative agreements, project authorizations, and employee and labor relations cases. Ability to work independently in investigating the facts, researching legal precedents, defining the legal and factual issues and drafting necessary legal documents. b. Represent office. Ability to represent the Center at hearings, meetings, negotiations, conferences, presentations, administrative litigation, or other forums with municipal, state, or other federal agencies and stakeholders from other sectors (e.g., private, non-profit). c. Legal advice on miscellaneous legal issues. Ability to advise Center Commander and Center Staff on miscellaneous matters within the USACE mission, such as ethics, conferences, and administrative authorities. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: If currently employed as an attorney by the Federal Government you must have completed 1 year at the next lower level (GS-13) within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement or previously served at the same or higher grade as the position being filled.