Attorney-Adviser

Basic Qualification Requirements
Applicants must be law school graduates with LL.B. or J.D. degrees AND applicants must be an active
member in good standing of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico bar.

Applicants must also meet one of the following:

• possess at least 1-year of professional legal experience following law school graduation; OR
• have a second professional law degree; OR
• meet any of the criteria indicated below:
  • academic standing in top one-third of law school graduating class;
  • graduation with academic honors;
  • significant participation on the law school's law review;
  • significant participation in the law school's moot court competition;
  • significant participation in a clinical legal aid program;
  • significant summer law office clerk experience; OR
  • other equivalent evidence of clearly superior achievement.

GS-13/14: In addition to meeting the basic qualification requirements described above, applicants must also
have the following additional years of professional legal experience for the grade level indicated:

• GS-13 = 2 years
• GS-14 = 3 ½ years

Candidates should have excellent oral communication, writing, research and analysis skills, and the ability to work effectively with other people, and exercise sound judgment.

In order to better assess your qualifications for this position, when preparing your resume please be sure to address your experience in or familiarity with the following areas of legal work: Government contract formation (including detailed reviews of solicitation and evaluation documents for source selections), data rights and other intellectual property issues, commercial terms and conditions review for government acceptance, Procurement integrity and organizational conflict of interest issues, litigation (primarily bid protests, but also disputes/claims), cost accounting issues, service contract labor standards and Davis-Bacon Act requirements, contract administration issues, and other procurement related legal issues.

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 information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website:https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.