Job opening: Paralegal Specialist, CG-950-12
Salary: $97 157 - 202 652 per year
Published at: Dec 12 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and serves as a paralegal specialist to managers, attorneys, and support staff within the OEEO in connection with FDIC legal matters such as hearings, appeals, litigation, advisory services, regulations, and/or policy formulation.
Additional selections may be made from this vacancy announcement to fill identical vacancies that occur subsequent to this announcement.
Duties
Performs a variety of specialized paralegal duties, including document handling, legal research and factual analysis of a complex nature, complaint support functions, statistical and data analysis, and other duties in support of the mission of OEEO.
Analyzes legal cases and documents, statutes, regulations, and other legal sources for precedential or analogous information and/or argument.
Reviews citations of a variety of legal authorities and confirms whether the cited authority supports the stated proposition; conforms often complex legal citations to Bluebook system of citation and court rules; Locates and retrieves copies of cited cases and other legal authorities from various digital sources.
Develops and/or maintains workload tracking and evaluation systems and supporting data for pending cases and actions; establishes case filing criteria, methods, and historical records information; prepares evaluative analysis of data and/or statistical information about workload as requested.
Drafts a variety of correspondence, memoranda, and discovery and legal documents; independently creates interrogatories and document requests in accordance with an identified investigation plan.
Qualifications
Qualifying experience may be obtained in the private or public sector. 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 skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Additional qualifications information can be found here.
To qualify, applicants must have completed at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the 11-grade level or above in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience is providing legal support for hearings, litigation, or appeals; conducting legal research, gathering facts, and retrieving information; drafting legal documents, reports, and other correspondence; and using electronic databases or a case management system to track or manipulate data.
Applicants must have met the qualification requirements (including selective placement factors – if any) for this position within 30 calendar days of the closing date of this announcement.
Applicants eligible for ICTAP (Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program) must achieve a score of 85 “well qualified” for this position. For more information, Click Here.
Education
There is no substitution of education for the experience for this position.
Contacts
- Address Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDIC Human Resources Branch
3501 Fairfax Drive
HRB (PA-1730-5007)
Arlington, Virginia 22226
United States
- Name: Matthew Hendricks
- Phone: 312-382-6896
- Email: [email protected]