ATTORNEY-ADVISER (GENERAL) (TITLE 32)

Military Grades: O-2 through O-4

GENERAL EXPERIENCE:Skill collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently and accurately. Knowledgeable of military and civilian laws, directives, regulations, policies, and procedures; ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communications. Skilled interpersonal communications, empathy, and effective listening. Ability to write English in reports and presentation formats. Ability to communicate-orally and in writing-clearly and effectively. Ability to organize thoughts, research materials and manage case projects. Skill comprehending and interpreting directives and laws.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must have 36 months work experience as a professional Attorney Advisor. Be knowledgeable of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard mission requirements. Competent in providing legal interpretation and guidance to managers and senior leaders on United States Code Title 32 709, National Guard Program. Able to recognize and identify complex constitutional, state-federal, and military-civilian jurisdictional issues frequently associated with the organization and administration of the Title 32 National Guard and articulate them in the appropriate forum or context. Competent in providing legal interpretation and guidance to managers and senior leaders on 10 United States Code, and the state equivalent to the federal Uniform Code of Military Justice. Experience conducting legal research in connection with cases pending administrative hearings, trials before courts of original jurisdiction, or arguments in appellate courts. Experience addressing legal questions referred by administrative officials of the employing agency, such as questions concerning the interpretation and application of statutes, rules, and regulations as they pertain to contracts, claims, or other legal instruments involving private business, state, local, national, or foreign governments. Experience addressing questions regarding the effects of provisions of proposed legislation or proposed changes in agency policies or regulations. Experience researching and providing legal advice in all functional areas of Administrative, Labor, Medical and Physical Disability, and Ethics Law. Capable of providing legal assistance in accordance with prescribed instructions and within legal guidelines. Experience planning, coordinating, and formulating litigation strategies. Experience addressing complex and difficult legal questions and factual issues requiring extensive research, analysis and evaluation of available precedents. Experience dealing with issues in the functional areas and demonstrated abilities to quickly identify both the legal and judgmental issues. Experience determining the facts and recommending effective solutions with minimal guidance or supervision. Experience developing and providing solutions to conflicting or contradictory DoD regulations, directives, and policies, and other NGB or state legal guidance. Experience addressing and resolving complex and difficult legal case problems, legal questions, or issues involved in the drafting of interpretation or application of legislation, regulations, contracts, decisions, or opinions requiring a solution. Experience preparing memoranda of reports that outlined and analyzed the factual and legal issues. Experience preparing legal documents or advisory opinions, participated in contract negations, and examined documents for legal sufficiency. Skill as a legal litigator and experience preparing litigation reports, briefs, pleadings, and other papers associated with civil litigations. Experience addressing Federal Labor-Management relations and skill as a participating collective bargaining member of the management negotiating team. Skill as the subject-matter expert in the complex and constantly evolving area of Medical and Physical Disability and Domestics Operations Law. Conduct legal research, investigation and negotiation, and provide legal advice, opinions, recommendations and legal memoranda. Experience reviewing programs that requires analysis of interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, and developing recommendations to resolve issues and problems. Experience developing recommendations for overall detailed plans, goals, and objectives for implementation and evaluation of the legal program. Experience addressing issues, problems or concepts and skilled in observations and analysis projections. Experience which includes addressing difficult and sensitive issues based on variations in the nature of the processes evaluated, the diverse missions of the units assigned, and resource limitations; experience compiling, reconciling, and correlating data from a various sources, separate service programs, and integral record systems. Experience researching, cross-checking information, and interpreting data to obtain accurate and relevant information. Experienced and skill collecting information, documenting data to substantiate and validate findings, facts, or violations of government policies, procedures, and instructions. Skill negotiating with those who resist responding or cooperating, due to such issues as organizational conflict, competing objectives, or limited resources. Skill influencing managers or other staff officials to accept and implement findings or recommendations. Competent to meet with senior military and civilian leadership, high-ranking managers to include Adjutants General, commanders, other staff judge advocates, or other external agencies such as, representatives of the local community and private support organizations, state and local government authorities, or attorneys on an ad-hoc basis.