Closing Date: 22nd April, 2024
Description:
Summary:Serves as legal counsel within the Office of the Chief Counsel, Ethics & Compliance Division (AGC-900), providing advice and counsel concerning a variety of ethics and compliance matters.
Duties:
Applies basic professional legal knowledge to assignments. Performs progressively more difficult assignments consisting of specific tasks designed for orientation purposes to enhance the attorney's knowledge of FAA's programs, policies, and related legal issues and relieve higher-level attorneys of routine detailed work. Receives direction from a manager or higher-level attorney regarding the use of time and resources. The degree of guidance supplied varies with the attorney's familiarity with assignments and experience. Laws and regulations applicable to assignments are clear and specific. Work is reviewed frequently while in progress and at completion for quality and timeliness. Typical assignments may include:
Provides legal advice to
FAA employees and FAA Lines of Business and Staff Offices on ethics
matters about FAA conference reviews including industry participation,
sponsorship and/or endorsement issues; legal review for industry
representatives and special government employees on FAA and DOT
sponsored Federal Advisory and Rulemaking Committees; FAA employee
outside employment matters and policy; gifts from prohibited sources;
widely attended gatherings; employee conflicts of interest; post
government employment briefings and advice; recusal advice for FAA
employees; researches ethics statutes, regulations and policies; drafts
appeal decisions of initial ethics opinions
Reviews and certifies Confidential Financial Disclosures (OGE Forms 450 and 278); assists and advises Confidential Filers.Provides initial and annual ethics training to FAA employees; prepares and delivers targeted ethics training to FAA managers and employees; participates on DOT intermodal ethics training groups and interagency ethics training groups.
Conducts thorough legal research by appropriately identifying and analyzing relevant legal and factual issues and arguments. Assesses legal strengths and weaknesses of available arguments to provide accurate, complete, and practical legal advice and conclusions. Identifies and learns emerging issues, principles, and practices relevant to the legal practice area.
Produces communications that are well-organized, clear, and persuasive. Provides advice tailored to the client and requirements of the agency. Adjusts communications to meet the audience's expectations and level of understanding.
Demonstrates interpersonal skills needed to develop and maintain strong client relationships. Actively participates with clients to identify and meet client goals and objectives. Seeks consensus with the client as to the timing and scope of work. Proactively identifies and appropriately pursues solutions to effectively represent the agency's interests in responding to high-priority issues. Puts forth effort to meet established proficiency level goals and objectives. Keeps clients informed of developments, including why and when an extension may be necessary.
Develops and demonstrates knowledge and a full understanding of key client business processes, priorities, and objectives relevant to the practice area. Accurately identifies client business objectives and issues when providing legal advice. Provides appropriate alternative solutions as needed to meet client's strategic business objectives. Provides legal risk/reward analysis in support of business decisions.
Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of when and the willingness to go to more senior-level clients based on risk levels. Demonstrates skill in representing the agency. Consistently puts forth effort needed to accomplish tasks and produce work that is timely and of professional quality.
Effectively participates in appropriate training and/or learning activities.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Conditions of Employment:
- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
Qualifications:
To qualify for this position, All applicants Must meet the following criteria:
- have a JD Degree from an accredited law school;
- be admitted to practice before the bar of any U.S. jurisdiction, state, territory, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and
- be an active member of that bar.
Answer all questions to the best of your ability. Do Not Assume That Because You Hold, Or Have Held This Position, You Will Automatically Be Found Eligible. You may be asked to provide evidence or documentation that you have this type of experience later in the selection process. Your responses are subject to verification through job interviews, or any other information obtained during the application process. Any exaggeration of your experience or any attempt to conceal information can result in disqualification.
Applicants who fail to
demonstrate possession of any of the above criteria AND who do not
provide the required documentation will receive no further consideration
for this position.*
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: (1) score order; (2) category grouping; or (3) alphabetical, and referred to the selecting official for selection consideration.
Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA.
*All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.**
Education:
This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).
Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.
Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.
Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.
It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence at the time of application. For additional information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html
Applicants who are not currently in the 905 occupational series (Attorney) in the Federal Government and fail to provide a copy of an unofficial or official transcript will not receive further consideration for this vacancy. Upon selection, if not currently employed in the 905 occupational series (Attorney), you will be required to submit an official transcript prior to appointment. If you do not have an official transcript (original, with the raised seal), you should contact your school immediately to request it.
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