Job opening: Attorney Advisor
Salary: $155 700 - 183 500 per year
Published at: Sep 26 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is in the Wireless Telecommunication Bureau (WTB), Mobility Division (MD), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) located in Washington, DC.
RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL NOT BE PAID.
THIS VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT MAY BE USED TO FILL ADDITIONAL POSITIONS WITHIN 90 DAYS.
Duties
Works on policy, rulemaking, and legal issues at the highest level of responsibility on projects involving extraordinarily complex and challenging legal, factual, and policy issues. Incumbent must provide a high level of original and creative analysis, interpretation, and formulation of policy positions and regulatory provisions with far-reaching impacts. These matters often require balancing conflicting interests and can affect major private and public interests and future technological landscapes.
Drafts Commission- and Bureau-level rulemaking and adjudication decisions, briefing sheets and options memos for Bureau and agency management, and talking points and presentations for active projects.
Acts as a principal attorney on projects with the assistance of lower-level attorneys and other professionals. Exercises full responsibility for the development, presentation, and completion of projects. Duties require a high order of legal draftsmanship including the ability to relate economic and engineering considerations to legal and policy issues, to evaluate divergent points of view, and to present findings and recommendations clearly and concisely.
Reviews proposed legislation, changes in regulations, questions of law, administrative policy, staff reports, and other Commission relevant documents and develop independent, objective comments, critiques and recommendations.
Keeps abreast of legal developments affecting mobile radio services by reviewing court and Commission decisions, congressional actions, professional publications, and trade press; researches legislation, decisions, opinion, and regulations.
Participates in meetings and conferences within and outside the agency on technical matters regarding mobile radio services.
Reviews rulemaking and orders originated by other Bureaus and Offices to ensure that mobile radio services issues are considered.
Reviews resolutions of licensing and re-licensing matters to ensure they are legally and factually adequate, complete, comprehensive, internally consistent and in conformance with existing policy and precedent.
Requirements
- Bar Membership Documentation Required Upon Selection.
- Education-Transcripts Required Upon Selection.
- US Citizenship.
- Suitable for employment as determined by a background investigation.
- Serve a probationary period of one year, if applicable.
- Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered with Selective Service.
- Financial disclosure statement may be required upon assuming the position.
- Current FCC employees must provide SF-50 verifying grade & status
- SF-50 Documenting One Year of Time in Grade Required
Qualifications
Applicants must meet eligibility and qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Current Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Professional law experience is 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.
In order to be deemed as "BEST QUALIFIED" candidates must meet both the educational requirements AND the Specialized Experience.
A. Education
You must meet the minimum basic educational requirements for Attorney positions. Education requirements include: a professional law degree JD, LL.B., and/or LL.M.
NOTE-If you do not provide a transcript at the time of application, a transcript will be required to be provided at the time of selection.
AND
B. Specialized Experience
GS-15 Professional: Applicant must possess at least four years of professional law experience and at least one year of that experience must be specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal Service performing the following specialized experience.
GS-15 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: Providing legal advice and guidance on federal statutes, rules, and regulations relating to providers of communications and/or telecommunications services; preparing comprehensive legal documents including reviewing and editing documents drafted by others; analyzing, interpreting, and presenting findings and recommendations on complex legal issues; making oral presentations, communicating legal research results, and defending legal positions at all levels of authority, and interacting with individuals at all levels of authority.
PART-TIME OR UNPAID EXPERIENCE: 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.
Education
Refer to Educational requirements outlined within the "Qualifications" section.
Contacts
- Address Federal Communications Commission
45 L Street NE
Washington, District of Columbia 20554
United States
- Name: Joy.Baylor
- Phone: 202-418-1485
- Email: [email protected]
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