Closing Date: 26th September, 2025
Description:
Job Description:The incumbent will serve as Counsel or Senior Counsel to provide analysis and advice on issues related to OES's portfolio, including:
- Ensuring that documents requiring approval of Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, or Associate Attorney General comply with Department policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
- Analyzing Executive Orders, statutes, regulations, and other legal authorities to identify, assess, assign, and track responsibilities assigned to the Attorney General or the Department.
- Advising OES leadership on legal issues related to its work, including management and disclosure of executive records.
- Responding to interagency and White House requests for assistance, information, and clearance of policy and other documents.
- Coordinating DOJ's Congressional and White House reporting requirements as well as its internal policy clearance processes.
- Preparing policies, procedures, and other documents related to OES's portfolio.
- Managing special projects requested by senior leadership.
Qualifications:
Applicants must possess a J.D. Degree (or equivalent), be an active member of the bar in good standing (any U.S. jurisdiction) or the District of Columbia, and have at least one year post-J.D. (or equivalent) legal or other relevant experience. A minimum of at least two and a half years of post-J.D. legal experience, and strong research and writing skills is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience analyzing complex legal problems, interpreting statutory and regulatory provisions to develop policy and programmatic recommendations.
- Experience designing, enhancing, and implementing policies and/or programs that advance the principles of the Office of Executive Secretariat.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate critical issues accurately and precisely in a wide variety of cases and projects.
- Demonstrated initiative and creativity.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to adeptly exercise diplomacy, discretion, and tact in all interactions.
- A demonstrated ability to work independently in a highly demanding environment.
- Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to set, manage, and balance diverse, evolving, and challenging projects and priorities.
