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Duties

You will serve as a senior legal advisor to NAWCWD personnel and a first-line supervisor for the NAWCWD Office of General Counsel Group’s general attorney team. You will provide professional legal advice to NAWCWD in the fields of commercial, business, acquisition law, civilian personnel law, fiscal law, standards of conduct, environmental law, or Freedom of Information and Privacy Act matters.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. You will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

The successful candidate of this position will serve as the first line supervisor for approximately six general attorneys practicing predominantly in contract law, civilian personnel law, ethics, and environmental law. In addition, the supervisor will also be called upon to manage the resolution of issues in the full range of OGC practice areas including fiscal law, the Freedom of Information Act, and the review of non-FAR based agreements including, but not limited to, Other Transactions, Commercial Service/Work For Private Party Agreements, Education Partnership Agreements, Memoranda of Agreement, as well as occasional intellectual property law issues involving Cooperative Research and Development Agreements and patent licenses. The successful candidate will be responsible for assigning and reviewing work of staff-level attorneys, mentoring junior attorneys, assisting with hiring needs, working with support staff to ensure that legal products are high quality and delivered in a timely manner, and interfacing with clients, as well as carrying their own case load. This is a new position. The NAWCWD China Lake site is located onboard the Naval Air Weapons Station, in the Mojave Desert, approximately 150 miles north/northeast of Los Angeles, California by road. The NAWCWD Point Mugu site is located onboard Naval Base Ventura County, on the Central Coast of California, approximately sixty miles west of Los Angeles, California by road. Both China Lake and Point Mugu are within the Los Angeles-Long Beach Locality Pay Area. Point Mugu is in a high cost of living area. For information about Locality Pay, see https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2024/general-schedule/. Applicants are strongly encouraged to learn about NAVAIR and NAWCWD, see http://www.navair.navy.mil/ and http://www.navair.navy.mil/nawcwd/. The position will be filled under the Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory (STRL) personnel demonstration system, which is a pay for performance system using pay bands with salary ranges. The position will be filled in the Business and Program Management Pay Band at the NM-05 (GS-15 equivalent) level, which encompasses the salary range equivalent of GS-14 through GS-15. To be eligible for selection, applicants must have at least five- and one-half years of successful, professional relevant legal experience in one or more of the practice areas identified above. Experience in civilian personnel law or contract law is required. Pay will be commensurate with the successful applicant's qualifications, funding availability, and STRL pay setting guidelines. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

The incumbent must have graduated from a law school that is accredited by the American Bar Association, be an active member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a State, U.S. Commonwealth, U.S territory, or the District of Columbia, and be admitted to practice before a state or federal court.

Contacts

• Address NAVAIRWARCENWPNDIV CHINA LAKE 1 Administration Circle China Lake, CA 93555-6100 US
• Name: David Donald
• Phone: 760-939-3481
• Email: [email protected]