This position is located in the Special Litigation Section, Police Practice Group. As the Legal Administrative Specialist (Criminal Justice Analyst), is charged with a full range of analysis work related to the Section's enforcement of the police misconduct statute (34 U.S.C. 12601).

Duties

The incumbent will serve as a Legal Administrative Specialist (Criminal Justice Analyst - Police Practice Group). Duties include, but are not limited to: Identify opportunities to further enforcement initiatives. Use skill in working with criminal justice datasets derived from other federal agencies, state or local governments, or other sources; analyzing the data using appropriate statistical software; providing ways to visualize or summarize information appropriately; and drawing well-supported, coherent conclusions. Monitor and track developments in criminal justice law, practices, and research; identifies developments in federal, state, and local criminal justice policies, programs, and practices bearing on the Section's areas of responsibility; provides regular updates on the same to the Section; researches and analyzes criminal justice policies, programs, and practices; and proposes and drafts recommended internal responses to such developments and recommended positions for the Division to assert with other Department components and federal agencies regarding the same. Identify, develop, and recommend enforcement initiatives and activities, as well as data driven strategies, to enhance the Section's efficacy in the enforcement of relevant statutes.

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: Designing and conducting quantitative data analysis, data mining and reporting to determine trends and deficiencies related to the operation of law enforcement (e.g., police and sheriffs); AND Identifying, evaluating, and applying accepted research methodologies (e.g., providing descriptive statistics and selecting a representative sample) in the assessment of a program; AND Researching or analyzing criminal justice system entities (such as policing; adjudication, prosecution, or defense of criminal charges); AND Communicating information gathered from data analysis and evaluations to diverse audiences orally and in writing; AND Synthesizing and displaying data and information using interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations. 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]