About this role
Job SummaryThis position is in the excepted service. It is filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service. Position is located in: DFAS Office of General Counsel, Accounting/Commercial Law Directorate, Indianapolis, IN.
QualificationsGS-11 Qualifications: Assignments require the first professional law degree (LL.B. or J.D.) and active membership in the bar of the highest court of a State, U.S. commonwealth, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia. In addition, one of the following requirements must be satisfied: 1. One year of professional legal experience. 2. The second professional law degree (Master of Laws (LL.M.)) provided it required 1 full academic year of graduate study. 3. Superior law student work or activities as demonstrated by one of the following: a. Academic standing in the upper third of the attorney's law school graduating class. b. Work or achievement of significance on one of the attorney's law school's official law reviews or journals. c. Special high-level honors for academic excellence in law school (e.g., membership in the Order of the Coif, winning of a moot court competition, or membership on the moot court team that represents the attorney's law school in competition with other law schools). d. Full-time or continuous participation in a legal aid program as opposed to one-time, intermittent, or casual participation. e. Significant summer law office clerk experience. f. Other evidence of clearly superior accomplishment or achievement. GS-12 Qualifications: Assignments require the first professional law degree (LL.B. or J.D.) and active membership in the bar of the highest court of a State, U.S. commonwealth, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia. In addition, one of the following requirements must be satisfied: a. Two years of professional legal experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 level. b. The second professional law degree (LL.M.) plus 1 year of professional legal experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 level. 2. An attorney without experience may, in unusual cases, be employed at the GS-12 or equivalent level provided the individual has advanced educational attainments substantially beyond those required for work at the GS-11 or equivalent level, and his or her education clearly indicates ability to perform work of the type to be assigned; for example, education that included courses directly pertinent to the work of the agency. The essential point in such cases is to ensure that the individual's education has enabled him or her to step into complex legal work characteristic of the GS-12 or equivalent level, and to operate with the degree of independence and responsibility typical of that level. GS-13 Qualifications: Assignments require the first professional law degree (LL.B. or J.D.) and active membership in the bar of the highest court of a State, U.S. commonwealth, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia. In addition, the attorney shall have professional legal experience in excess of 2 years that is commensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the position. This announcement is being used to fill positions with an entry grade of GS-11, GS-12, or GS-13 with a full performance level of GS-13. The minimum salary for grade GS-11 is $75,374, the maximum salary is $97,991. The minimum salary for grade GS-12 is $90,341, the maximum salary is $117,446. The minimum salary for grade GS-13 is $107,428, the maximum salary is $139,658.
Major DutiesFor vacancies filled at less than the full performance level of the position, duties will be developmental in nature.The primary practice areas will include federal contract acquisitions, fiscal law, and contract and vendor pay. Additional practice areas may include interagency agreements and assisted acquisitions, commercial bankruptcy, and debt collection.Interpret and applies legislation, regulations, decisions, and opinions affecting DFAS in the major legal fields of contracts, fiscal, vendor pay, audit, accounting, finance, and other legal matters concerning DFAS.Independently studies and resolves legal issues that may involve settlement of questions of statutory interpretation, or interpretation of regulations having the force and effect of law, for which no precedent, court or agency decisions exist.Conducts research and renders preliminary opinions where little or no legal precedent exists in the development and formation of DFAS policy necessitated by the passage of new legislation, or unique situations arising from unforeseen circumstances.Drafts proposed legislation or receives suggestions for proposed legislation from operating directorates and field elements of DFAS. Conducts research on the effects of proposed legislation or proposed changes on DFAS policies or regulations.