Legal Program Specialist

Legal Program Specialist Department of Defense Nional Geospial-Intelligence Agency Summary Legal Program Specialists possess specialized knowledge and experience th enable the mission of the NGA Office of General Counsel (OGC) to provide timely, accure, and practical legal advice to ensure NGA accomplishes its mission consistent with the Constitution and all applicable laws. They provide direct support to the torneys and paralegal specialists working complex legal issues reled t Learn more about this agency Summary Legal Program Specialists possess specialized knowledge and experience th enable the mission of the NGA Office of General Counsel (OGC) to provide timely, accure, and practical legal advice to ensure NGA accomplishes its mission consistent with the Constitution and all applicable laws. They provide direct support to the torneys and paralegal specialists working complex legal issues reled t Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/27/2026 to 05/16/2026 Salary $85,447

• $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade IA 03 Locion Many vacancies in the following locion: Springfield, VA 1 vacancy Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent
• This is a permanent position. Work schedule Full-time
• Full Time Service Excepted Promotion potential 03 Job family (Series) 0950 Paralegal Specialist Supervisory stus No Security clearance Sensitive Compartmented Informion Drug test Yes Announcement number 20260152 Control number 866340500 This job is open to Help The public U.

S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Clarificion from the agency External Applicants Only Duties Help

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This position is loced in the main NGA facility in Springfield, VA. This position supports the Staff Director and Executive Assistant with administrive functions similar to those in a law office/environment. The Office of General Counsel is made up of about 50-55 employees consisting of torneys, paralegals, and legal program specialists. Requirements Help Conditions of employment US Citizenship is required. Designed or Random Drug Testing required. Security Investigion

SPECIAL INFO

As a condition of employment NGA, persons being considered for employment must meet NGA fitness for employment standards.

• U.S. Citizenship
• Security Clearance
• Top Secret /Sensitive Compartmented Informion (SCI)
• Polygraph & Drug Test
• Direct Deposit
• Trial Period during which we will evalue your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.

We may consider:

performance conduct; needs and interests of the agency; and whether your continued employment would advance organizional goals of the agency or the Government and the efficiency of the Federal service

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

You must be able to obtain and retain a Top Secret security clearance with access to SCI. In addition, you are subject to a Counterintelligence Polygraph examinion in order to maintain access to Top Secret informion. All employees are subject to a periodic examinion on a random basis in order to determine continued eligibility. Refusal to take the examinion may result in denial of access to Top Secret informion, SAP, or unescorted access to SCIFs. Employees with SCI access and who are under NGA cognizance are required to submit a Security Financial Disclosure Report, SF-714, on an annual basis in order to determine continued eligibility. Failure to comply may negively impact continued access to Top Secret informion, Informion Systems, SAP, or unescorted access to SCIFs. NGA utilizes all processes and procedures of the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS). Non-executive NGA employees are assigned to five distinct pay bands based on the type and scope of work performed. The employee's base salary is established within their assigned pay band based on their unique qualificions. A performance pay process is conducted each year to determine a potential base pay salary increase and/or bonus. An employee's annual performance evaluion is a key factor in the performance pay process. This position is a DCIPS position in the Excepted Service under 10 U.S.C. 1601. DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans' Preference to preference eligible candides as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement. If you are an external applicant claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must self-identify your eligibility. Qualificions

MANDATORY QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

For this particular job, applicants must meet all competencies reflected under the Mandory Qualificion Criteria to include educion (if required). Online resumes must demonstre qualificion by providing specific examples and associed results, in response to the announcement's mandory criteria specified in this vacancy announcement: 1) Experience managing projects and/or programs with multiple customers. 2) Experience with business process improvement to develop new or modified work methods, organizional structures, management processes, and/or program administrion procedures to enable efficient legal business operions. 3) Experience using written and oral communicion skills to convey informion to audiences of various technical capabilities. 4) Experience researching and ghering relevant, timely, and accure informion to solve a problem set. 5) Experience preparing a variety of narrive and tabular merial (e.g., legal briefs, correspondence, reports, technical papers, and/or manuals, etc.). 6) Experience performing a variety of business operions functions th operionalize the administrion and operions of a law office (e.g., program management, records management, da/informion management, manpower utilizion, budget allocion and/or execution management, security administrion, property management, reports management, and other reled activities).

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

In addition to the mandory qualificions, experience in the following is desired: 1) Experience working in a legal office/organizion and/or experience as a legal assistant with support to one or more of the following areas: administrive law; nional security law; internional law; federal employment law policies, procedures, and programs; legislive proposals and reviews; informion technology law; litigion; tort claims; ethics; privacy and civil liberties; U.S. Government informion practices to include the Freedom of Informion Act (FOIA); intelligence oversight; acquisition law; or intellectual property law. 2) Experience providing legal assistant services in support of the U.S. Military, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or other U.S. Government agencies. 3) Experience naviging ambiguity by adapting to new demands or informion and handling situions with multiple variables and/or unknowns. 4) Ability to prepare and organize evidence to support a variety of legal mters. 5) Practical knowledge of legal terminology. Additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help Review our benefits How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Applicants are not required to submit a cover letter for employment considerion with the Nional Geospial-Intelligence Agency. However, a cover letter is recommended. Applicants will have the option to tach a cover letter in the Qualificions

• Attachments step of the online applicion.

APPLICANT EVALUATION PROCESS

1) All applicants evalued using the Mandory Qualificion Criteria, 2) Qualified applicants will then be evalued by an expert or panel of experts using a combinion of qualificion criteria to determine the best-qualified candides, 3) Best-qualified applicants may then be further evalued through an interview process. Military retiree applicants, if selected, may be impacted by the 180-day appointment restrictions of

DODI 1402.01. HD

personnel will provide additional informion if applicable. Applicants are encouraged to carefully review the Assignment Description, Additional Informion Provided By the Selecting Official, and the Qualificion Requirements; and then construct their resumes to highlight their most relevant and significant experience and educion for this job opportunity. This description should include examples th detail the level and complexity of the performed work. Applicants are encouraged to provide any educion or degree informion referenced in the announcement th is relevant. If educion is listed as a mandory requirement, only degrees obtained from an institution accredited by an accrediting organizion recognized by the Secretary, US Department of Educion accepted. You must use the NGA resume builder and limit your resume to 2 pages. In accordance with section 9902(h) of title 5, United Stes Code, annuitants reemployed in the Department of Defense shall receive full annuity and salary upon appointment. They shall not be eligible for retirement contributions, participion in the Thrift Savings Plan, or a supplemental or re-determined annuity for the reemployment period. Discontinued service retirement annuitants (i.e., retired under section 8336(d)(1) or 8414(b)(1)(A) of title 5, United Stes Code) appointed to the Department of Defense may elect to be subject to retirement provisions of the new appointment as approprie. (See DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 300). Reemployed annuitants must meet additional selection criteria as outlined in the DODI 1400.25, v300. All candides considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nional origin, age, marital stus, disability, or sexual oriention. NGA provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. Applicions will only be accepted online. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify us recruitment@nga.mil. The decision on granting reasonable accommodion on a case-by-case basis. Benefits Help Review our benefits Required documents Required Documents Help None If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicion submission involves applying using NGA's online applicion process NGA Careers Portal . Additional informion concerning NGA's hiring process can be found by ing NGA Hiring Process . All announcements close 11:59PM EDT on the closing de listed. Be sure to complete and submit your applicion by th time in order to be

ONLY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Both applicants for employment and current employees of NGA are entitled to request religious accommodions from generally applicable employment-reled rules and requirements, so long as the accommodion requested would not result in an undue hardship to the conduct of NGA's business. You can apply for the job opening https://careers.nga.mil/psp/CAREERS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=20260152&PostingSeq=2 Agency contact informion Recruitment Phone 571-557-1999 Recruitment@nga.mil Address

NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Mailstop:

S44-HDR 7500 GEOINT

Drive Springfield, VA 22150 US Next steps After ing the NGA Careers Portal and applying via NGA's online applicion process, applicants can follow their stus via th same NGA online applicion functionality. Several other topics reling to wh is involved in the hiring process and how long it takes can be found by ing the NGA Hiring Process . Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help None If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicion submission involves applying using NGA's online applicion process NGA Careers Portal . Additional informion concerning NGA's hiring process can be found by ing NGA Hiring Process . All announcements close 11:59PM EDT on the closing de listed. Be sure to complete and submit your applicion by th time in order to be

ONLY ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Both applicants for employment and current employees of NGA are entitled to request religious accommodions from generally applicable employment-reled rules and requirements, so long as the accommodion requested would not result in an undue hardship to the conduct of NGA's business. You can apply for the job opening https://careers.nga.mil/psp/CAREERS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=20260152&PostingSeq=2 Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Recruitment Phone 571-557-1999 Recruitment@nga.mil Address

NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

Mailstop:

S44-HDR 7500 GEOINT

Drive Springfield, VA 22150 US Next steps After ing the NGA Careers Portal and applying via NGA's online applicion process, applicants can follow their stus via th same NGA online applicion functionality. Several other topics reling to wh is involved in the hiring process and how long it takes can be found by ing the NGA Hiring Process . Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/27/2026 to 05/16/2026 Salary $85,447

• $158,322 per year Pay scale & grade IA 03 Locion Many vacancies in the following locion: Springfield, VA 1 vacancy Telework eligible No Travel Required Not required Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent
• This is a permanent position. Work schedule Full-time
• Full Time Service Excepted Promotion potential 03 Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test Yes Announcement number 20260152 Control number 866340500