Summary
This position is in the Department of Program Services, Court Services Office (CSO) and reports to the CSO Deputy Chief. The Court Services Office (CSO) manages resources, programs, and services related to court administration and case management and provides support, services, and programs addressing the needs of clerks' offices.
Duties
The Court Services Office (CSO) serves as the primary liaison and support to appellate, bankruptcy, district, and bankruptcy appellate panel clerks; bankruptcy administrators; circuit executives; circuit librarians; circuit mediators; court interpreters, court reporters, and staff attorneys. The Supervisory Attorney Advisor oversees a team of attorney advisors that provide legal advice and written guidance to the CSO Chief, other AO offices, and the courts. The incumbent provides assistance, support, and coordination of a wide variety of court operations, including support for circuit, appellate, district, and bankruptcy court executives and peer advisory groups. The incumbent serves as an expert on appellate court and circuit units, and for administrative, legal, management, and judicial programs and services. The Supervisory Attorney Advisor exercises a wide overall scope and manages significant financial and human resources. The duties for this position include, but are not limited to: Supervising, directing, and evaluating the work of attorney advisors providing legal analysis, advisory services, and policy guidance to federal courts and judiciary stakeholders. Providing first-line supervision and technical guidance to attorney advisors on legal analysis, policy interpretation, drafting, research, and issue resolution. Assigning and monitoring workload priorities, establishing performance expectations, and ensuring timely completion of assignments and projects. Conducting performance management activities, including performance evaluations, coaching, mentoring, and employee development. Participating in recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and succession planning activities. Promoting collaboration, accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement. Serving as a working supervisor performing substantive legal work in the same areas assigned to attorney advisors. Providing expert legal counsel and technical assistance to courts, judicial officers, clerks' offices, and judiciary staff regarding statutes, judiciary policies, federal rules, administrative procedures, and operational issues affecting court services programs. Reviewing and analyzing proposed legislation, regulations, judiciary policies, and administrative guidance to assess operational and legal impacts on the federal courts. Developing, interpreting, and implementing policies, procedures, guidance documents, and program initiatives supporting judiciary operations and court administration. Advising senior AO leadership and judiciary stakeholders on complex or sensitive legal and operational matters requiring authoritative interpretation and policy recommendations. Coordinating with internal AO offices, federal judiciary units, judges, court executives, and external stakeholders to resolve legal and operational issues affecting court services programs. Leading and participating in national workgroups, committees, conferences, and special projects involving judiciary operations, policy development, and legal analysis. Overseeing updates to the AO's operations manuals for clerks of court, and other guidance documents. Ensuring consistency, accuracy, and quality of legal guidance and written work products. Reviewing memoranda, reports, briefing materials, policy documents, and correspondence prepared for senior leadership, committees, and judiciary stakeholders. Identifying emerging legal trends, risks, and operational concerns affecting the judiciary and recommending appropriate courses of action. Supporting strategic planning, program management, and organizational initiatives.
Requirements
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.
Education
Applicants must possess a law degree (J.D.) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). Qualifying education must have been obtained from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/.
How you will be evaluated
We will review your resume and supporting documentation and compare this information to your responses on the occupational questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job. If you meet the minimum qualifications for this job, we will evaluate your application package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and education as they relate to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement. You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrative responses, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandatory narrative responses will result in not receiving full consideration and/or rating credit. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.