Summary
The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3), Senior Judge Advocate (JA) providing expert legal guidance, direction, primary authority, and experiencedsupervision of personnel to support DC3 operations. Provides attorney-advisory guidance to the DC3 Executive Director and DC3 workforce composed of government military, civilian, and contractors across a widerange of disciplines.
Duties
Senior Cyber Legal Advisor providing advice, counsel and advocacy in support of the DC3 mission regarding cyber law. Operates independently, with a wide degree of latitude for the exercise of professional judgment and initiative advising on relevant cyber law areas to include the following: Use of cyber forensics and forensics-enabled analytics to enhance DC3 support of customer missions in the areas of military operations, law enforcement, intelligence and cybersecurity; Defense Industrial Base cybersecurity activities; DoW cyber vulnerability management; and, establishment and sustainment of authoritative data repositories for cyber information sharing among supported DoW and federal agencies. Senior Criminal Litigation Support Attorney reviewing requests and supporting legal bases for forensic digital evidence analysis by DC3 Cyber Forensics Laboratory. Prepares detailed responses to complex pretrial discovery requests utilizing law and procedures for both military and civilian criminal court proceedings; prepares expert witnesses for testimony in adversarial judicial proceedings; and advises prosecutors and investigators with regard to digital evidence issues during investigations, undercover operations, at trial and in appellate proceedings. Senior Judge Advocate providing advisement of policies and practices, and legal reviews on Ethics, Intelligence Oversight and Acquisition, Intellectual Property and Federal Appropriations. Serves as the Ethics Attorney for DC3 on behalf of the Designated Agency Ethics Official (DAEO); provides ethics advisory opinions on entire range of ethics-related matters; conducts and monitors the accuracy and quality of training provided to the agency; ensures compliance with financial disclosure and training requirements for entire agency; and ensures agency compliance with any ethics program reporting requirements. Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Advises and provides counsel to employees regarding policies, procedures, and directives of management. Selects or recommends selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and EEO and diversity objectives.
Education
Must be a graduate of a law school accredited by the American Bar Association, and be currently licensed as an attorney, in active (or equivalent) status and in good standing, with the bar of a U.S. state, territory, or commonwealth. The attorney must maintain such bar membership in at least one jurisdiction during the entire course of employment with the Air Force.
How you will be evaluated
Your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. The resume/documents you submit must support your responses to the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or "insufficient information" and you will not receive further consideration for this job. Applications who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further.