Attorney-Advisor (Public Notice Flyer)

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/

Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government.

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.

The Attorney Advisor is a full-time (GS-14 or GS-15) position. The full performance level for this position is GS-15. The position will report to the Chief Counsel for NIST. The positions are located at the NIST Gaithersburg, Maryland campus. The duties of these positions are suitable for some telework with supervisor approval.

Basic qualifications for all grade levels:

• Must be a graduate with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree or equivalent from an accredited law school; and
• You must have Active bar membership in one of the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands.
• At 5 years of experience practicing law and/or clerking, or
• At least 5 years of significant experience in a litigation, transactional, counseling, and/or regulatory practice that involved the development of strong research and writing skills, and exposure to exercising strategic judgment.

• Private sector (e.g., firm, in-house) intellectual property experience;
• Other Transaction Authority experience;
• Sophisticated commercial contract experience;
• Export control, national security, research security experience; or
• Semiconductor industry expertise.

Specialized Experience Requirements: To be qualified for this position, the applicant's résumé must reflect experience in a managerial capacity. Typically, experience of this nature is gained at the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service, or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. As such, your resume must demonstrate that you have the knowledge:

GS-15 - You must have a professional law degree (LL.B. or J.D.), plus five (5) years of professional legal experience, at least one of which must be specialized experience at a level of difficulty comparable to the GS-14 level in the Federal service: