You will serve as a PARALEGAL SPECIALIST in the Secretariat Office of the Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) of NVRECRUITNGCMD.

Duties

You will brief management on the status of all pending legal actions or investigations to ensure they are well versed on all matters that may require higher level review. You will prepare and track all reports required for financial disclosure and ethics training programs. You will use research findings to develop point papers, information papers, decision papers and presentations. You will identify interrelationships among cases, statutes, regulations, and other legal authorities. You will draft legal memoranda, research summaries and correspondence to support a full range of legal services. You will collaborate in a team to develop solutions to a problem.

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
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• 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.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• 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.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Conducting investigations and preparing/reviewing reports of investigation for correct form and legal sufficiency. 2) Organizing reports of investigation and related documents into case files, updating case trackers/management systems, preparing non-judicial punishment charges and related rights notifications, preparing administrative separation processing notifications, and preparing requests for defense counsel assignment. 3) Organizing evidence and preparing oral arguments for presentation at administrative boards. 4) Document the results of non-judicial punishment and administrative boards, preparing executive correspondence to memorialize results. 5) Researching relevant Navy & DoD directives, statutes, and case law to answer legal questions. 6) Preparing ethics-related correspondence analyzing the application of ethics rules to specific situations, preparing post-government employment advice letters, reviewing and drafting gift disposition forms, reviewing flag travel worksheets. 7) Receiving, reviewing, and forwarding PII Breach Reports. Conducting or supervising PII spot checks & training. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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

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

Contacts

• Address NVRECRUITNGCMD NRC Millington Millington, TN 38054 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]