Office for Civil Rights

FullTime

<div><div style="padding: 0; margin: 15px 0 15px 0">Description This position is remote work and telework eligible consistent with the Agency’s telework and remote work program policy. This remote position will be assigned to Atlanta Regional Office in the Office for Civil Rights. The Team Lead is responsible for leading and participating on a compliance and enforcement team that supports the mission of the Department and OCR's Strategic Plan. <div style="padding: 0; margin: 15px 0 15px 0"> Responsibilities </div> APPLICATION LIMIT: This vacancy announcement is limited to the first 50 applications received and will close at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the day that we receive the 50th application, or at 11:59PM Eastern Time on the listed closing date, whichever occurs first. We encourage you to read this entire vacancy announcement prior to submitting your application. As a Supervisory General Attorney, GS-0905-14, you will be responsible for: • Ensuring that the team's complaint investigations, compliance reviews, and proactive enforcement activities are factually accurate and legally sound. • Providing professional leadership and guidance to team members in conducting, and improving civil rights complaint investigations, compliance review, proactive enforcement, and technical assistance activities. • Providing legal guidance to the team on the analysis of evidence, investigative reports, resolution letters, and negotiated settlements. • Planning and conducting complete on-site investigations. • Conducting compliance reviews of selected recipient institutions with respect to the requirements of appropriate statues and regulations. <div style="padding: 0; margin: 15px 0 15px 0"> Education Requirements </div> Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must submit a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, please click <a href="https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/" rel="nofollow"> Foreign Education </a> . <div style="padding: 0; margin: 15px 0 15px 0"> Qualifications </div> Minimum Qualification Requirements: 1. You must be a graduate from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association, AND 2. Proof of admission to the Bar of the highest court of a state, territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and current membership in such Bar as would permit the practice of law. You must be a member in good standing of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico bar, AND 3. Has four years professional legal experience, at least one of the four years MUST be at the level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to that of an attorney at the grade immediately below the one being filled, OR Has three years professional legal experience, at least one of the three years MUST be at the level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to that of an attorney at the grade immediately below the one being filled, PLUS a second professional law degree (LL.M.) which requires one full year of graduate study OR Has three years professional legal experience, at least one of the three years MUST be at the level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to that of an attorney at the grade immediately below the one being filled, PLUS record shows superior law schoolwork or activities as demonstrated by one of the following: <ol><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Academic standing in the upper third of the law school graduating class. </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Work or achievement of significance on his/her law school’s official law review. </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Special high-level honors for academic excellence in law school, such as election to the Order of the Coif. </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Winning of a moot court competition or membership on the moot court team that represents the law school in competition with other law schools. </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Full-time or continuous participation, for one year or two semesters of law school, in a legal aid program (as opposed to one-time, intermittent, or casual participation). </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Significant summer law office clerk experience after beginning law school. </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Other equivalent evidence of clearly superior achievement. </li></ol> Specialized Experience for the GS-14 One year of experience in either federal or non-federal service that is equivalent to at least a GS-13 performing two (2) out of three (3) of the following duties or work assignments: <ol><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Experience serving as an authority on civil rights issues. </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Experience providing advice to less experienced staff on effective investigative strategies to resolve cases and generating clear, legally sound work products. </li><li style="margin-bottom: 5px"> Experience coordinating the work of other specialists in conducting complex and sensitive complaint investigations. </li></ol></div></div>

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