This position located in the Special Litigation Section. As the Supervisory Equal Opportunity Investigator, you will supervise paralegals and investigators in pattern or practice investigations and cases regarding allegations of police misconduct and discriminatory policing or unlawful conditions in correctional and juvenile justice facilities and healthcare facilities for people with disabilities. You will also serve as an investigator on these matters.

Duties

The incumbent will serve as a Supervisory Equal Opportunity Investigator. Duties include, but are not limited to: Perform the administrative and human resource management functions relative to the staff supervised. Manage the workload of a staff of investigators, paralegals, legal support staff working on cases, and paralegal contractors, including making and prioritizing assignments, managing workflow and deadlines, and tracking completion of projects. Exercise a great deal of skill in supervising the work of investigators that is regularly adapting and creating new methods to deal with assignments that involve a broad range of fact-finding and analytical techniques to collect, analyze, and synthesize information and prepare recommendations related to cases involving large quantities of disputed data and witnesses. Train subordinates in investigative skills and techniques including analysis, interviewing, fact-finding, document management, drafting legal documents, preparing exhibits and other demonstratives, preparing recommendations and other reports, trial preparation, cite checking and Bluebooking, document remediation for Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act compliance, contracting and working with expert witnesses, and handling logistical details.

Requirements

Qualifications

Specialized Experience Requirements To qualify at the GS-14 grade level, candidates must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service or other pay system. Examples of specialized experience include: Analyzing and applying constitutional rights, and civil rights laws and regulations, such as Title VII, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, and the police misconduct statute (42 U.S.C. 12601) or other civil rights or equal opportunity laws and regulations; AND Investigative legal support skills such as interviewing, conducting outreach to affected communities, identifying, and analyzing facts, reviewing, and managing large document productions, supporting litigation; AND Providing training or mentoring related to investigative skills and legal support; AND Utilizing communication skills to establish relationships with internal and external stakeholders. In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. 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. In order to be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires successful completion of one or more additional assessments, including a subject matter expert (SME) resume review. These assessments measure the critical competencies listed below that are required to successfully perform the job. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENTS: Merit promotion applicants applying for a grade higher than the grade you currently hold, must provide an SF-50, which shows type of service appointment, tenure group, grade, and salary. Your SF-50 Form must also show the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s over one year old). No award SF-50s will be accepted. Current Civil Rights Division employees are not required to submit an SF-50. All qualifications, time-in-grade, and education requirements (if applicable) must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume. YOUR RESUME MUST support your responses to the online questionnaire and provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience as described in the vacancy announcement. If you are using experience to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, please ensure that your resume includes the month and year that you began and ended each position held or that position will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide details will result in an ineligible rating. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20530 US
• Name: Robin Hofmann
• Email: [email protected]