This position is located at U.S. Department of Treasury, Departmental Offices, Office of the General Counsel. As a Paralegal Specialist, you will be providing assorted paralegal assistance to attorneys within OGC, with an emphasis on ethics, to include complex financial disclosure, advice and counsel, training, and program management.

Duties

The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. 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. Advise and assist attorneys on ethics advice and counsel, training, financial disclosure, and project management. Create, update, and maintain databases in practice support applications, including but not limited to applications such as Integrity, SharePoint, Excel, HRConnect, PowerBI, or other similar software tools as required. Develop and perform queries for documents, runs reports of categories of documents, and retrieves documents from internal sources, as requested for the ethics program. Conduct and assist with document reviews in the context of litigation, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, oversight requests, and similar projects, including reviews for responsiveness, privilege, and application of FOIA exemptions.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. For the GS-13, specialized experience is defined as one year of experience at the GS-12 level, or equivalent that is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position must include all of the following: - Paralegal experience in a government ethics program with knowledge of Federal ethics statutes, regulations and policies; AND - Experience in the technical and substantive review of financial disclosure reports (Office of Government Ethics (OGE) 450 and 278); AND - Experience managing Integrity.gov (for OGE 278s) and a similar management system for OGE 450s (e.g., FDM, FDOnline, or equivalent program). For the GS-12, specialized experience is defined as one year of experience at the GS-11 level, or equivalent that is directly related to the position and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position must include all of the following: - Paralegal experience in a government ethics program with knowledge of Federal ethics statutes, regulations and policies; AND - Experience assisting employees with technical questions on filing financial disclosure reports; AND - Experience utilizing government ethics form management systems. 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 resumé. TIME-IN-GRADE: In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable: For the GS-13, you must have been at the GS-12 level for 52 weeks. For the GS-12, you must have been at the GS-11 level for 52 weeks. TIME AFTER COMPETITIVE APPOINTMENT: Candidates who are current Federal employees serving on a non-temporary competitive appointment must have served at least three months in that appointment.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Office of the General Counsel Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]