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Attorney-advisor (General)

4 months ago


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**Duties**:
As an Attorney-Advisor (General), GS-0905-14/15, your typical work assignments may include:

- Providing well-researched and sound oral and written legal advice on novel legal issues related to emerging technologies (such as artificial intelligence, facial recognition, predictive analytics, and/or synthetic biology) in support of homeland security innovation, including but not limited to providing a legal framework within which the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate and the Department shape policy related to emerging technologies, including an ability to identify second and third order effects of legal issues related to such technologies.
- Collaborating with DHS attorneys supporting other program offices when those program offices have operational equities in S&T RDT&E projects, i.e., operational implementation considerations from a legal perspective for present or future deployments.
- Providing legal advice related to policy considerations and general law and administrative law matters in support of S&T's various RDT&E programs, including representing the Office of the General Counsel at conferences and meetings and performing other tasks as necessary to carry out the mission of the Office of the General Counsel.

View common definitions of terms found in this announcement: Common Definitions.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
- You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- You must submit to a pre-employment drug test.
- You must be an active member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a State, U.S. Commonwealth, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia.
- You must be a graduate of a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.

**Qualifications**:
**Basic Requirements**:
**GS-14 and GS-15**:

- The first professional law degree (LL.B. or JD) or the second professional law degree (LL.M.); AND
- Specialized professional legal experience in excess of three (3) years that is commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the position. The quality of the individual's background may be evidenced by the relatedness of his or her specialization.

An undergraduate or graduate degree in Science or Engineering is preferred, but not required. For this position, applicants should have 5 or more years of relevant post-JD experience.
- **Specialized Experience**:

- You qualify for the GS-14 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the federal government. You qualify for the GS-15 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the federal government.- OGC TPLD's principal client is the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) which is DHS's primary research, development, test, and evaluation organization supporting DHS Components and the broader Homeland Security Enterprise.- Substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience may not be used for this grade level.
- All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
- Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- **Current or Former Political Appointees**: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

**Education**:
If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency (a U.S. private organization's interpretation that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to conventional U.S. education programs) with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For more information regarding evaluation of foreign education for federal employment, please visit the U.S. Department of Education webpage on the Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

**Additional information**:
The Department of Homeland Security encourages persons with disabilities to apply, to include persons with intellectual, severe physical or psychiatric disabilities, as defined by 5 CFR 213.3102(u), and or Disabled Veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more as defined by 5 CFR 315.707. Veterans,