This position is located at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, LEGAL DIVISION. The incumbent will provide legal support on complex professional legal-related work connected with the work of the office.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the CN-52, broadly equivalent to the GS-12. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. For the CN-52 Specialized experience for the CN-52 is defined as one year of experience at the CN-51 (GS-11 level), or equivalent that is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is conducting legal research in support of staff attorneys, including: Experience creating or maintaining knowledge management and tracking systems to manage and maintain record copies of legal opinions, directives, guides, instructions, and other resources, and accessing them electronically; and Experience checking legal citations using one or more of the commonly used computerized legal reference systems such as Lexis Nexis, Lexis Advance, Westlaw, and/or Westlaw Next; and Experience gathering, organizing, and assembling legal documents and preparing reports, summaries, briefs and other legal correspondence for review/approval by attorneys. For the CN-51: Specialized experience for the CN-51 is defined as one year of experience at the CN-40 (GS-9 level), or equivalent that is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is conducting legal research in support of staff attorneys, including: Experience maintaining knowledge management and tracking systems to manage and maintain record copies of legal opinions, directives, guides, instructions, and other resources, and accessing them electronically; and Experience using one or more of the following computerized legal reference systems: Lexis Nexis, Lexis Advance, Westlaw, and/or Westlaw Next to conduct searches for legal precedents; and Experience checking legal citations; and Experience assisting Attorneys in the preparation of reports, summaries, briefs and other legal correspondence for review/approval by attorneys. OR Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. OR Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the specialized experience requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the educational requirement must equal at least 100 percent. Only graduate level education in excess of 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours), may be used to combine education and experience. CFPB uses an experience-based process to set pay for employees. Experience is evaluated and credited using the employee's résumé. To ensure that all of your prior work experience (e.g., internships, volunteer work, details, part-time, self-employment, secondary jobs, etc.) is considered and accounted for, please ensure that your résumé covers the following: your entire work history with specific start and end dates (MM-DD-YYYY) provided for each listed position hours worked per week for each position degrees and the dates conferred (MM-YYYY) Part-time experience will be credited pro-rata based on a 40-hour work week, while work of 32 hours or more will be rounded up to full-time experience. If you have multiple positions that have overlapping start and/or end dates, only 40 hours of experience will be credited for a given work week. Refer to Resume Tips for more information on how to submit a comprehensive résumé. See information on our base pay ranges and salary structure. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your résumé.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address LEGAL DIVISION Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]