Established in 2022, the Office of Environmental Justice coordinates environmental justice activities across DOJ components and offices. Community outreach and relationship management responsibilities include documenting harm to communities/individuals, collecting community knowledge relevant to harms, and communicating government actions to address community concerns. The incumbent plans, designs, and executes campaigns to convey information on DOJ's environmental justice programs.

Duties

This vacancy is also being announced concurrently with Ann# ENRD-24-040-MP for employees with Federal status or eligibility and applicants eligible for special appointment authorities. Please review that announcement to determine if you are eligible to apply. Note: Applicants must apply separately for each announcement. As the federal agency whose mission is to ensure the fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans, the Department of Justice is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment. To build and retain a workforce that reflects the diverse experiences and perspectives of the American people, we welcome applicants from the many communities, identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, religions, and cultures of the United States who share our commitment to public service. Duties and responsibilities include the following: Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholder groups, including hard-to-reach, diverse and under-represented communities by identifying and executing creative and accessible strategies to reach them where they are. Attend, facilitate/lead, and give presentations, in person or virtually, at formal and informal meetings and workshops for communities and other stakeholders. Share information with community organizations about Division and Department programs and other government programs and non-governmental service providers. Assist in identifying and distributing information regarding available program opportunities and resources. Respond to complaints and requests for assistance, documents incoming communications, and refers complaints or requests for assistance to the appropriate person, office, or agency. Develop strategies and maintain an annual calendar of engagements to proactively engage with over-burdened and under-served communities. Identify appropriate meetings and events to attend or where case teams might present, including community organization meetings and other local events. Analyze qualitative and quantitative feedback gathered during listening and engagement sessions. Identify outreach resources within DOJ and across the federal government for case teams to call on when planning community meetings. Review or prepare user-friendly meeting materials; create templates for outreach plans, fact sheets, and feedback forms for case teams to use. Coordinate the development of outreach materials on common subjects, for case teams to use. Provide trainings or coordinate with the Executive Office for United States Attorneys and the National Advocacy Center to design trainings in meeting facilitation and cultural competency for DOJ attorneys and professional staff conducting outreach.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national
• Must complete a Background Investigation to include pre-employment drug testing
• You will be required to serve a one-year probationary period; if not already served.
• If this is your first appointment in the Federal Government, pay will be set at step 1 of the grade selected.
• If you were born male, on or after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.

Qualifications

To qualify for GS-12: You must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-11 Federal grade level or above performing administrative management duties and responsibilities related to the work of a Community Outreach Specialist for organizing engagement activities with stakeholders, gathering and analyzing data, executing multiple projects, and communicating with stakeholders both verbally and in writing. To qualify for GS-13: You must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-12 Federal grade level or above performing program management duties and responsibilities related to the work of a Community Outreach Specialist for directing engagement activities with stakeholders, analyzing and reporting data, managing multiple projects, and communicating with stakeholders both verbally and in writing. Highly desirable: Demonstrated ability to lead or facilitate meetings (or otherwise personally engage) with communities that are overburdened and underserved. Relevant knowledge and experience of environmental justice. 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 skill and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. 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. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. To preview questions, please click here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12475299

Education

There is no substitution of education for experience at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address Office of Environmental Justice 150 M Street NE Washington, DC 20002 US
• Name: Carmen Browne
• Phone: (202) 616-3127
• Email: [email protected]