Summary
The Office of Personnel and General Law advise on complex issues ranging from labor relations to personnel policies to ethics. Our attorneys exercise a broad range of legal skills including working directly with clients to solve personnel problems and provide ethics advice, working closely with the agency's Labor Relations Officer on labor matters, litigating personnel law and labor disputes, creating and presenting training, and advising on the agency's external civil rights program.
Duties
As an Attorney Advisor (Personnel and General Law), you will: Advise agency managers and leadership on issues associated with a broad range of employment law matters; AND Serve as an advisor on labor/management relations, including grievances, arbitration, and collective bargaining; AND Represent the agency in cases before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Merit Systems Protection Board; AND Advise FRA employees and leaders on issues associated with Federal sector ethics rules and regulations involving conflicts of interest, gifts, outside activity, political activity. and issues arising under FRA's supplemental ethics regulation; AND Advise on issues related to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The ideal candidate should have knowledge of and experience in representing entities in personnel and labor matters, including specifically: representing agencies before administrative bodies or Federal courts; advising managers and leadership on a wide range of employment issues; advising on labor relation matters, including grievances and arbitrations; and advising employees on ethics matters. *PLEASE NOTE: This announcement establishes an open continuous (1 year) vacancy announcement. Given our continuing need for top professionals in this field, we will review applications after the first 21 days of the vacancy opening for early consideration. Then after, applications will be reviewed on an as needed basis.
Requirements
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: SELECTIVE SERVICE: Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered for Selective Service. BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION: You will be required to complete a background/security investigation and meet preliminary requirements prior to onboarding. TRIAL PERIOD: This is an Excepted Service position. This job will be filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive service. Applicants selected for an excepted service position may be subject to a two-year trial period. ETHICS/CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: All employees are subject to the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch, set out in Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 2635, including restrictions on owning financial interests that may conflict with performance of their duties. Some employees, like those involved in contracting or regulating non-Federal entities, are subject to Executive Branch Financial Disclosure requirements set out in Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 263. GOVERNMENT TRAVEL CARD: This position involves travel. A government contractor-issued travel card will be issued and must be retained for official business only.
Education
MANDATORY EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: In order to qualify for this position, candidates must have successfully completed a full course of study in a school of law accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and have a professional law degree, and must currently be a member in good standing of the bar of a State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia.
How you will be evaluated
DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE: PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume/ application does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). Your resume must contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make a qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level For this announcement, all applicants will be reviewed to determine if they meet the basic qualifications for this position, specifically the educational and specialized experience requirements. Applicants will not be rated or ranked. All applications that are verified to meet the basic qualifications will be referred to the selecting official. The answers you select in the on-line process must be substantiated in your application package. If upon review, it is determined that your described work history, competencies, and/or supporting documents do not support your answer choices, you may not be referred to the selecting official. Please ensure that your work history provides enough details to support your answers. You may preview questions for this vacancy.