• Job Description

  Req#: 807895400
  This is an excepted service appointment under the Pathways Recent Graduates Program. This appointment is a one year career development program. At the successful completion of the program requirements, you may be eligible for non-competitive conversion to a Federal career or career-conditional appointment. For more information on the Pathways Program, please visit: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/students-recent-graduates/
  
  Duties
  
  
  If selected for this position, you will join a litigation team and provide legal support services to Assistant United States Attorneys to work on impactful cases and trials in the Criminal and National Security Divisions and the Civil Rights Section of the Civil Division, serving the nearly 20 million residents of the Central District of California. Legal support services include assistance on investigations, discovery, and trial presentation, often through automated case litigation and management programs. Duties include:
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • You must be a United States 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.
  • You must submit a transcript or proof of degree/certificate.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  To be eligible for a recent graduate appointment, ALL of the following requirements must be met:
  • Recent Graduates must have obtained a qualifying associates, bachelors, master's, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying accredited educational institution within the previous 2 years unless military service interfered with a veteran's eligibility to apply during that two year time frame. Veterans meeting the above exclusion may apply within 2 years of discharge or 6 years from the date of receipt of the degree whichever comes first. (Go to http://www.ed.gov/accreditation?src=rn to verify accreditation status).
  • Recent graduates must be United States citizens or owe permanent allegiance to the United States. (Currently, natives of American Samoa, Swains Island and certain inhabitants of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are the only groups that owe permanent allegiance to the United States.)
  • You must successfully complete a background investigation to determine your suitability for Federal employment.
  • All recent graduates are required to sign a Pathways Recent Graduate Participant Agreement.
  • Recent Graduates serve a trial period for the entire duration of their excepted service appointment.
  • You must submit transcripts (unofficial or official) from an education institute stating that you meet all degree requirements to be considered eligible for the Pathways Recent Graduate Program. Official transcripts will be required prior to an official job offer, if selected for this position.
  • Qualification requirements as outlined below:
  GS-7: To be eligible at the GS-7 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, a combination of Education and Experience, OR Superior Academic Achievement.
  Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 level. Specialized experience is defined as experience performing litigation support assignments such as assisting with organizing case information; preparing discovery productions, including scanning and coding documents and creating DVDs; assisting in the use of technology to organize digital evidence; and assisting attorneys in preparing for court such as preparing exhibits, including audio and video exhibits.
  
  Education: One full year of graduate education in a related field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Law, Criminal Justice): 1 full year of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree. Education was obtained in an accredited college or university and demonstrates the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position.
  
  Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of specialized experience and graduate education may be used to meet total qualification requirements. Combination specialized experience and graduate education as described above which when combined equal 100% of the requirements. To calculate your percentage of qualifying experience, divide your total number of months of qualifying experience by 12. To calculate percentage of graduate education, divide the total number of your semester hours by 18 or your school's definition of one year of study, add the two percentages together. The sum of the percentages must equal at least 100%.
  
  Superior Academic Achievement: Possess a Bachelor's Degree or expect to complete the requirements for a Bachelor's degree within the next 9 months AND possess at least one of the following criteria: class standing in the upper third of the graduating class; an overall GPA of 3.0 OR at least a 3.0 based on courses completed during the final two years of my curriculum; a GPA of at least 3.5 based on the average of required courses completed in my major field OR based on the average of required courses completed during the final two years of my curriculum; OR election to membership in a national scholastic honor society.
  

• 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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