This position is located in the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor (SOL). All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. The Required Documents section of this announcement identifies all documents that must be uploaded in order to be considered a complete application package. Applicants that do not submit a complete application will not receive further consideration.

Duties

The Regional Solicitor for the Philadelphia Region leads a legal team that protects the rights of working people and retirees and vigorously enforces more than 150 laws administered by the Department of Labor. The team of approximately 40 attorneys, paralegals, and legal professionals-based in Philadelphia and Arlington-handles trial-level litigation in U.S. District Courts, administrative tribunals, and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Regional Solicitor and their team are charged with enforcing laws governing, for example, minimum wage, overtime and child labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); complex litigation under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and the Mine Safety and Health Act (MSHA); discrimination by government contractors under Executive Order 11246; enforcing fiduciary violations relating to pension and health care plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); and protecting workers from retaliation under various whistleblower laws. The Regional Solicitor plans, organizes and directs the legal team in providing advice and support during investigations, settlement negotiations, and both jury and bench trials. The Regional Solicitor also facilitates the referral of potential criminal cases to DOJ, U.S. Attorneys, and state and local prosecutors, and often the regional attorneys become members of those criminal prosecution teams. A smaller part of the legal practice involves defending the Department in EEO and MSPB matters. The Regional Solicitor represents the Solicitor of Labor and the Acting Secretary of Labor on departmental and interdepartmental task forces and at conferences and meetings concerning matters within the region's area of responsibility. The Regional Solicitor also speaks for the Department before outside stakeholders, such as advocacy groups, worker centers, industry and professional groups and a variety of other individuals and groups with interest in the programs under the regional jurisdiction.

Requirements

Qualifications

Candidates must possess broad and progressive experience in an attorney position that involves novel and/or complex legal questions and experience as a legal advisor/litigator. This experience must have been at a major management level (normally equivalent to the GS-15 level in the Federal government) and have at least seven or more years of post-law school experience. To qualify for this position, all applicants must write a narrative in the spaces provided detailing accomplishments that would satisfy each of the ECQs and MTQs. You must address each ECQ and MTQ separately. If you fail to do so, your application will be rated ineligible. MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): In writing your responses to the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs), your narrative must address each ECQ separately. Each ECQ should contain at least two examples describing your experiences and accomplishments/results. NARRATIVE RESPONSES TO ECQS MUST NOT EXCEED 10 SINGLE-SPACED PAGES. For additional guidance, applicants may visit the Office of Personnel Management's Guide to Senior Executive Qualifications. Applicants are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action, and Result model outlined in the guide. 1. Leading Change: This core qualification involves the ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and implement it in a continuously changing environment. 2. Leading People: This core qualification involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3. Results Driven: This core qualification involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. 4. Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. 5. Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): In writing your narrative responses to the MTQs, please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled, etc. APPLICANTS SHOULD LIMIT THEIR NARRATIVE RESPONSES TO ONE (1) SINGLE-SPACED PAGE PER EACH MTQ WITH A FONT SIZE NO SMALLER THAN POINT 12. It is recommended that applicants draft their MTQs in a Word document first, then cut and paste into the spaces provided following each MTQ to ensure length requirements. 1. Knowledge of relevant or comparable area of law as demonstrated by significant federal court and/or administrative trial litigation. 2. Successful experience in managing and leading a legal office, component or significant team; demonstrating competencies such as effective recruitment and development of staff, efficient use of human, fiscal, informational and material resources, effective internal and external communication, problem solving and decision making.

Education

Education for this position is a requirement and applicants must possess a J.D. You will be required to provide an original copy of your transcripts at a later time. Applicants are required to be active members of the Bar in any US State or US Territory Court under the U.S. Constitution. Documentation of Bar License will be required before selection.

You must provide a copy of your transcripts from an accredited institution. Any applicant falsely claiming an academic degree from an accredited school will be subject to actions ranging from disqualification from federal employment to removal from federal service.

If your education was completed at a foreign college or university, you must show comparability to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States and comparability to applicable minimum coursework requirements for this position. Click Evaluation of Foreign Education for more information.

Contacts

• Address Office of the Solicitor 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
• Name: John Sylvia
• Phone: 774-365-6851
• Email: [email protected]