Legal Administrive Specialist Department of Justice Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys Eastern District of New York, Long Island Civil Division Summary The United Stes Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York's mission is to investige, prosecute and deter violions of federal stutes, enforce and represent the interests of the United Stes in civil litigion, uphold civil, constitutional and victims' rights, and foster partnerships with other federal, ste and local government agencies and community groups. Learn more about this agency Summary The United Stes Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York's mission is to investige, prosecute and deter violions of federal stutes, enforce and represent the interests of the United Stes in civil litigion, uphold civil, constitutional and victims' rights, and foster partnerships with other federal, ste and local government agencies and community groups. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Central Islip, NY No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $105,481

• $137,128 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.

Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0901 General Legal And Kindred Administrion Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk Special-Sensitive (SS)/High Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-NYE-13052549-DE Control number 883735400 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees whose job, agency or department was elimined and are eligible for priority over other applicants. Clarificion from the agency CTAP, ICTAP, all U.S. Citizens and Nionals Duties Help This position is also being announced to applicants under Merit Staffing procedures under 26-NYE-13052550-MP This Legal Administrive Specialist provides a wide range of technical, analytical, and legal support services to the Long Island Civil Division of the Eastern District of New York. If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team th is responsible for providing Legal Administrive Specialist support in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, loced in Central Islip, New York, Typical work assignments will include: Conducting in-depth analysis of a variety of specialized legal topics and points of law. Drafting and/or preparing letters, legal documents, forms and reports as requested. Managing and maintaining discovery and other documention in electronic and hard copy forms th pertain to cases. Providing advanced support for complex civil cases involving large volumes of electronic case merials, including processing, organizing, reviewing, producing, and presenting electronic discovery. Advising torneys, legal support staff, and members of our client agencies on electronic discovery stregies, litigion support tools, technical requirements, production specificions, and best practices for managing complex or non-standard electronic evidence. Providing assistance for case preparion and presention. Requirements Help Conditions of employment You must be a United Stes Citizen or Nional to apply for this position.

Selective Service:

Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see http://www.sss.gov/). All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choosing. Initial appointment is conditioned upon a sisfactory pre-employment adjudicion. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudicion of a background investigion. A probionary period may be required. If you receive a conditional offer of employment for this position, you required to complete an Optional Form 306, Declarion for Federal Employment, and to sign and certify the accuracy of all informion in your applicion. Must provide resume and supporting documents (See required documents). You must meet all qualificions requirements by the closing de of the announcement. As needed, additional selections may be made using this announcement. Qualificions

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

To be considered minimally qualified for this position, you must demonstre th you have the required specialized experience and/or educion for the respective grade level in which you are applying: To qualify the GS

• 12 level, you must possess:

Specialized Experience:

At least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS

• 11 level in the Federal service performing (obtained in either the public or prive sectors) (3) of the (4) duties listed below: Providing expert level analysis and advice regarding technological tools or solutions for litigion support of federal cases; Analyzing litigion support project requirements to define or understand project objectives, sequence of events, work effort, durions of tasks, and/or associed resource requirements; Processing electronically stored informion in various electronic file forms to prepare it for case team review, for production in discover, and/or for filing or presention as exhibits in court, or other uses during litigion; and/or Maintaining document review dabases of voluminous discovery and/or case merials for cases.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). For more informion on the qualificions for this position, click here . Additional informion Payment of relocion expenses will not be authorized

Background Investigion:

To ensure the accomplishment of its mission, the Department of Justice requires each and every employee to be reliable and trustworthy. To meet those standards, all selected applicants must undergo and successfully complete a background investigion for a clearance as a condition of placement in this Special Sensitive/High Risk position. This review includes financial issues such as delinquency in the payment of debts, child support and/or tax obligions, as well as certain criminal offenses and illegal use or possession of drugs. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan ( ICTAP ) provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing th you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP considerion, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement; and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the vacant position and re equivalent to the Highly Qualified or better cegory using established cegory ring criteria. Additional informion about ICTAP eligibility, click here . The Career Transition Assistance Plan ( CTAP ) provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing th you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP considerion, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility, 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement, and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must sisfy all qualificion requirements for the vacant position and re equivalent to the Highly Qualified or better cegory using established cegory ring criteria. Additional informion about CTAP eligibility, click here . Reasonable Accommodion (RA)

Requests :

If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online applicion. Requests for RA for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for RA must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for RA are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, based on your adjudicion decision. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a RA, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for

Online Assessments:

Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments . Expand Hide 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 A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. You evalued based on how well you meet the qualificions listed in this vacancy announcement. Your qualificions evalued based on your applicion merials (e.g., resume, supporting documents), your responses on the applicion questionnaire, and your responses to all assessments required for this position. You assessed on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics): Attention to Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on an assessment may also result in your removal from considerion. To preview the applicion questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13052549 Your applicion evalued and red under DOJ's Cegory Ring and Selection Procedures and placed in one of three cegories: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified, or Qualified. Best Qualified

• applicants possessing experience th substantially exceeds the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors, and who are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position; Highly Qualified
• applicants possessing experience th meets the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in some, but not all, of the requirements of the job; Qualified
• applicants possessing experience and/or educion th meets the minimum qualificions of the position including all selective factors. Names of all candides in the best qualified cegory sent to the hiring official for employment considerion (unless a sufficient number of qualified veterans are found
• in which only those names initially certified).

Candides within the best qualified cegory who are eligible for veteran preference will receive selection priority over non-veteran preference eligibles. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents

Required Documents Help Note:

Failure to submit a resume or supporting documention may result in eliminion for further considerion. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:

Resume:

Your resume showing relevant experience, job titles, duties, des (must include

MM/DD/YY

for full considerion) of employment and work schedule for each (part-time XX hours per week or full-time). Limit your resume to 2 pages. Only resumes 2 pages in length accepted to determine eligibility and qualificions. For more informion, view the following link: USAJOBS Help Center

• Upde your resume now so it meets new resume requirement A complete Assessment Questionnaire Other supporting documents:

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention A copy of your RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for failure to reloce, notice of disability annuity terminion, or certificion from the Nional Guard Bureau or Military Department th you are eligible for disability retirement; A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action'', documenting your RIF separion, noting your positions, grade level, and duty locion, and/or Agency certificion of inability to place you through RPL, etc.; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your agency th shows your current promotion potential. Veterans Preference Documention , if applicable: In order to verify your Veterans' Preference entitlement, you must submit a copy of the Member Copy 4 of your DD-214 (Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty); or if you are a current Active Duty member you must submit a certificion on approprie military branch letterhead th indices:1) your service des, 2) expected discharge or release de from active duty with a release/discharge de no ler than 120 days from the closing de of this announcement, and 3) the character of service (e.g., Honorable); or other official documention (e.g., documention of receipt of a campaign badge or expeditionary medal) th shows your military service was performed under honorable conditions. In addition, if you are a disabled veteran, a Purple Heart recipient, or widow/widower if a veteran, the spouse of a disabled veteran or the parent of a disabled or deceased veteran, you must submit a Standard Form (SF) 15, "Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference" ded October 2013 and all the required documention identified on the reverse side of the SF-15 to support your preference claim. Any other supporting documention required for verificion as described in the announcement. Are you a current or former political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee? The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the Human Resources Office. Submit a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a stement th provides the following informion regarding your most recent political appointment: Position title; Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee); Agency; and Beginning and ending des of appointment. 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 Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside least 3 hours to take the USA Hire assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Click on this: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact Staff Acquisition Applicant Support staffacq-applicant@opm.gov or to obtain an alternive applicion. Agency contact informion Staff Acquisition Applicant Support Website https://staffacq-applicant.opm.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new Address Eastern District of New York 271-A Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, NY 11201 US Next steps Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Your assessment results kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments. To be considered for the position, you must meet all qualificions, including meeting or exceeding the cut score on the required assessments. 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 Note:

Failure to submit a resume or supporting documention may result in eliminion for further considerion. To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:

Resume:

Your resume showing relevant experience, job titles, duties, des (must include

MM/DD/YY

for full considerion) of employment and work schedule for each (part-time XX hours per week or full-time). Limit your resume to 2 pages. Only resumes 2 pages in length accepted to determine eligibility and qualificions. For more informion, view the following link: USAJOBS Help Center

• Upde your resume now so it meets new resume requirement A complete Assessment Questionnaire Other supporting documents:

CTAP/ICTAP

Documention A copy of your RIF separion notice, notice of proposed removal for failure to reloce, notice of disability annuity terminion, or certificion from the Nional Guard Bureau or Military Department th you are eligible for disability retirement; A copy of your SF-50 "Notificion of Personnel Action'', documenting your RIF separion, noting your positions, grade level, and duty locion, and/or Agency certificion of inability to place you through RPL, etc.; A copy of your lest performance appraisal including your ring; and Any documention from your agency th shows your current promotion potential. Veterans Preference Documention , if applicable: In order to verify your Veterans' Preference entitlement, you must submit a copy of the Member Copy 4 of your DD-214 (Certifice of Release or Discharge from Active Duty); or if you are a current Active Duty member you must submit a certificion on approprie military branch letterhead th indices:1) your service des, 2) expected discharge or release de from active duty with a release/discharge de no ler than 120 days from the closing de of this announcement, and 3) the character of service (e.g., Honorable); or other official documention (e.g., documention of receipt of a campaign badge or expeditionary medal) th shows your military service was performed under honorable conditions. In addition, if you are a disabled veteran, a Purple Heart recipient, or widow/widower if a veteran, the spouse of a disabled veteran or the parent of a disabled or deceased veteran, you must submit a Standard Form (SF) 15, "Applicion for 10-Point Veteran Preference" ded October 2013 and all the required documention identified on the reverse side of the SF-15 to support your preference claim. Any other supporting documention required for verificion as described in the announcement. Are you a current or former political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee? The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the Human Resources Office. Submit a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a stement th provides the following informion regarding your most recent political appointment: Position title; Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee); Agency; and Beginning and ending des of appointment. 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 Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply and be considered for this position, you must complete all required questionnaires, assessments and required documention as specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows: Click the Apply Online button. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing de. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you notified after submitting your applicion. The notificion provided in your applicion submission screen and via email. The notificion will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this applicion" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside least 3 hours to take the USA Hire assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue ler, you can re-use your unique assessment link. Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments reused for one year (in most cases) from the de you complete an assessment. If future applicions you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses automically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparion resources. To upde your applicion, including supporting documention: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your applicion record, and click Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement stus or your applicion stus: Click on this: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Your applicion stus page is where you can view your applicion stus, USA Hire assessment completion stus, and review your notificions sent by the hiring agency regarding your applicion. If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternive applicion which is available from the Human Resources Office. Please contact Staff Acquisition Applicant Support staffacq-applicant@opm.gov or to obtain an alternive applicion. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Staff Acquisition Applicant Support Website https://staffacq-applicant.opm.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new Address Eastern District of New York 271-A Cadman Plaza East Brooklyn, NY 11201 US Next steps Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended. Your assessment results kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments. To be considered for the position, you must meet all qualificions, including meeting or exceeding the cut score on the required assessments. 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 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Central Islip, NY No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $105,481

• $137,128 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.

Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Not required Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union No Drug test Yes Security clearance Other Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number 26-NYE-13052549-DE Control number 883735400