• Job Description

  Req#: 780852400
  For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.
  
  As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.
  
  This position is also being announced to applicants eligible to apply through Merit Staffing procedures under
  24-CO-12346855-IMP.
  
  Duties
  
  
  If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for performing technical and analytical work to support the civil litigation needs of the United States Attorney's Office. Typical work assignments will include:
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • You must be a U.S. Citizen or National
  • Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
  • You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable
  • If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
  • You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  GS-07 :To be eligible at the GS-07 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, OR a combination of Education and Experience.
  
  Specialized Experience: at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level in Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as (1) assisting with organizing case information, preparing discovery productions, including scanning and coding documents and creating CDs; (2) assisting attorneys in preparing for court such as preparing exhibits, compiling trial notebooks and compiling witness and exhibit lists; (3) verifying citations; (4) assisting in the use of technology to organize digital evidence; and (5) preparing, drafting and editing a variety of legal and trial-related documents.
  
  Education: Successful completion of one (1) full year of progressively higher level graduate education (18 semester hours or the number of units your school uses to describe one graduate year of academic study) in related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Computer Science, Law, Information Technology) leading to a Master's Degree OR bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement.
  Superior academic achievement is as follows: standing in the upper third of your graduating class or major subdivision OR membership in one of the National Scholastic Honor Societies; OR Grade Point Average. Applicants must have a grade point average of: (a) 3.0 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B" or better) as recorded on their official transcript, or as computed based on 4 years of education, or as computed based on courses completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum; or (b) 3.5 or higher out of a possible 4.0 ("B+" or better) based on the average of the required courses completed in the major field or the required courses in the major field completed during the final 2 years of the curriculum.
  
  Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. In order to qualify based on a combination, a combination of specialized experience and graduate-level education as described above, which when combined equal 100% of the requirements.(Only graduate education in excess of the first full year may be used in this calculation).
  
  GS-09: To be eligible at the GS-09 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, OR a Combination of Education and Experience.
  
  Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 level.
  Specialized experience is defined as 1) managing case information through automated means such as scanning, indexing and organizing documents in a database; 2) providing assistance to facilitate the management of incoming and outgoing document discovery in accordance with e-Discovery or similar systems; (3) assisting attorneys with trial preparation; and (4) utilizing office automation tools to create physical and digital trial presentations.
  
  Education: One of the following types of education in a related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Computer Science, Law, Information Technology): a Master's Degree or equivalent graduate degree (such as an LL.B. or J.D., if related); OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree. Education at the graduate level must be in an accredited college or university and must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position.
  
  Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements.
  
  GS-11 : To be eligible at the GS-11 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, OR a combination of Education and Experience.
  
  Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level.
  Specialized experience is defined as performing the following: (1) working in a legal environment providing technical advice to litigation teams on legal automation requirements and system capabilities; (2) organizing and managing complex and voluminous case specific discovery; (3) assisting attorneys with trial preparation and presentation, including making recommendations on how to proceed with trial presentations; (4) analyzing litigation support requirements to develop or recommend appropriate strategies to meet litigation needs; (5) using automated litigation support technology such as Trial Director, Eclipse, Relativity, Concordance, Case Map, or related programs to organize voluminous case information for retrieval, prepare computerized trial presentations, and index digital evidence; and (6) diagnosing and resolving litigation support computer system problems.
  
  Education: One of the following types of education in a related field (e.g., Criminal Justice, Computer Science, Law, Information Technology): a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.M., if related. Education at the graduate level must be in an accredited college or university and must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position.
  
  Combining Education and Experience: A combination of experience and graduate level education can be used if, when combined, are equivalent to 100% of the qualification requirement. Only graduate level education in excess of the first two years can be used in this calculation.
  
  Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)- The ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in the announcement; and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide proof of eligibility to receive selection priority. Such proof may include a copy of your written notification of ICTAP eligibility or a copy of your separation personnel action form. Additional information about ICTAP eligibility is at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.
  
  Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)- The CTAP provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing that you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP consideration, 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 satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notification of CTAP eligibility with your application. Additional information about CTAP eligibility is at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

• About the company

  The United States Department of Justice, also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States. It is equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration, and administers several federal law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The DOJ is responsible for investigating instances of financial fraud, representing the U.S. government in legal matters, and running the federal prison system. The department is also responsible for reviewing the conduct of local law enforcement as directed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.

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