Total 211 Legal / Public / Security job vacancies in US-DC Washington DC

The Deputy Chief of the Litigation Unit is primarily responsible for directing, and supervising the Unit's attorneys, and two Assistant Deputy Chiefs. The Deputy Chief for Litigation also works with the supervisory paralegal specialist to coordinate the work of the paralegals, and oversees all of the litigation functions of the Section, including:

• Assignment and monitoring of workloads;
• Writing annual performance appraisals and other employee relations related matters;
• Coordinating the preparation of weekly and other periodic reports regarding the Unit's significant cases;
• Supervision of the Unit's statistical reporting to the Criminal Division and Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF);
• Ensuring that the Department's litigation-related policies and practices are adhered to by the Unit's attorneys;
• Coordinating the professional development, training, and mentoring of the Unit's attorneys;
• Coordinating and interacting with management from federal and international law enforcement agencies with whom Litigation Unit attorneys work;
• Representing the Section at international coordination meetings and at national and international narcotics-related conferences and training seminars; and
• Serving as the Section's liaison to the OCDETF at its periodic Regional and National conferences.

Engages in proactive threat discovery through research and analysis of security-related material in order to maintain situational awareness of adverse information, and to identify threat content against Senators, their families, staff, and associated locations. Reports on security risks/concerns/persons of interest involving possible or actual threats to Senate Members, staff, the Capitol, and/or offices, and provides regular updates and applicable advice regarding these incidents. Implements outreach efforts, security assessment initiatives, and law enforcement coordination to ensure Senators and their Chiefs of Staff receive the necessary guidance, tools, and support when planning and attending public events as well as conducting outside travel. Reviews publicly available information and conducts open-source research to identify trends, patterns, and relationships that provide insights into threat and security issues. Other duties as assigned.

As a Management & Program Analyst (Disaster Recovery) (Public Notice Flyer), you will:

Disaster Recovery Program and Policy Management:

• Provide program and analytical support to EDA's Division of Economic Development Integration and Disaster Recovery (EDI-DR).
• Prepare Economic Recovery Support Function (ERSF) and other disaster-related training materials for EDA and other federal staff for approval.
• Review ERSF mission assignment deliverables and lessons learned to facilitate continuous improvement.
• Research and documents disaster recovery and resilience best practices to inform EDA resilience strategies and activities.
• With oversight by the supervisor, develop and maintain EDA disaster recovery reporting products, dashboards, presentations and talking points, as needed, for DOC and EDA leadership. Analyze management information requirements to develop or operate program or administrative reporting systems.
• Develop and recommend reporting approaches that better meet higher level management information needs, identifying the data required for use in the management and direction of programs.

• Serve as the Contract Officer Representative (COR) to facilitate EDA's utilization of contractors for Disaster Recovery Missions by coordinating and providing contracting packages, such as Statement of Work (SOWs), Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), Sole Source Justifications (SSJs), and contracting documentation acquisition office.
• Assist the Contracting Officer in the pre-award and post-award phases of procurement processes, including preparing solicitations and evaluating contract proposals in keeping with the terms and conditions of EDA's Disaster Recovery Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).
• Provide technical direction to contract in accordance with the contract terms. This may involve clarying technical requirements, reviewing proposed changes, and assisting contractors in understanding complex contract elements.
• Maintain accurate and complete records, including inspection reports, meeting minutes, and communication logs, to document contractor performance. These records are used to provide feedback to the contracting officer and may serve as evidence during contract disputes or performance evaluations.

As a Student Trainee (Electrical Engineering), you will:

• Perform a variety of tests in accordance with established methods. Adjusts and operates test equipment of proven reliability. Applies standardized test procedures. Records instrument readings. Determines whether the test data fall within normal limits. Determines the apparent causes of deviations in the test data resulting from equipment malfunctions, observational errors, and other causes.
• Analyze and present data in accordance with established methods. Extracts data from a variety of prescribed but non-standardized sources. Recognizes errors which are readily apparent (e.g., misplaced decimal points and reversal of algebraic sign) but which require a limited knowledge of the subject matter. Processes the data according to well-defined methods and designated formulas using elementary algebra and geometry in addition to arithmetic.
• Assemble, install, and maintain instruments and equipment.
• Participate with engineers and other professionals in meetings relating to the review of engineering elements of assigned projects.
• Accompany engineers and other professionals on field inspections of in-process and completed work.

As a Human Resources Specialist (Employment Benefits), you will:

• Act as the the subject matter expert in several programs such as benefit programs (FEHB, FEGLI, TSP, Military/Civilian Deposits etc.) and other benefits and/or work-life balance programs. Incumbent understands and administers programs in accordance with process, practices, policies, and statutory requirements.
• Analyz benefit, retirement, and work-life balance program issues, to include military and civilian deposits, death cases, disability retirement cases, employee workplace injury cases, and/or a variety of tour of duty, leave administration and benefits programs to support NNSA across the nuclear weapons complex. Anticipate and prevent skills imbalances, and assess and redress skills gaps, with minimal employee and organizational disruptions.
• Initiate and maintain regular and recurring contacts with a variety of civilian supervisors and senior management officials in NNSA headquarters and administrative staffs, or comparable personnel in other Federal agencies. Effectively interacts and communicate with managers, supervisors, employees, and contractors sufficient to implement and coordinate programs and to defend, explain and promote assigned program initiatives.
• Develop and respond in writing to a variety of correspondence to include inquiries internal and external to NNSA. Ability to formulated written guidance such as email notification to workforce on benefits program items such as Open Season, Qualifying Life Events (QLEs), FEGLI, Retirements, TSP and other Worklife Program procedures and timelines.

As an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) you will:

• Preside over formal and informal quasi-judicial hearings, adjudicate appeals, and issue written decisions on behalf of the Secretary of Energy.
• Decide questions of law and fact necessary to decisions in matters affecting industry regulation, personnel security, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and personnel health and safety.
• Exercise certain powers as provided by law and exercise independent judgment in resolving administrative cases and appeals. Decisions may be subject to review by the OHA Director or the Secretary of Energy, and decisions in formal hearings may be further reviewed by U.S. Federal Courts.

• Enforcement actions for alleged violations of energy efficiency regulations;
• Eligibility of personnel to hold an access authorization (security clearance);
• Contractor-employee whistleblower claims; and
• FOIA and Privacy Act appeals.

As a Senior Staff Attorney/Senior Attorney (Legal Services), PA-0905-2/3 in Legal Services, your typical work assignments may include the following:

• Managing a docket of administrative litigation before the GAO Personnel Appeals Board (PAB) covering a wide range of personnel and labor matters (e.g., prohibited personnel practice and discrimination claims, bargaining impasses, negotiability petitions, and unfair labor practice charges). This includes the full range of motions practice, propounding and responding to discovery including taking and defending depositions, and acting as agency counsel at evidentiary hearings. The PAB is an independent entity that performs the combined functions of its executive branch counterparts: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the Federal Labor Relations Authority; the Merit Systems Protection Board; and the Office of Special Counsel.
• Serving as the agency counsel and collaborating on litigation strategy with DOJ and USAO in Federal court litigation involving GAO and its employees.
• Coordinating and directing GAO's responses to internal investigations, by the PAB/Office of General Counsel, GAO's Office Opportunity and Inclusiveness, and GAO's Office of Inspector General, including preparing witnesses for investigatory interviews and responding to document and information requests.
• Providing innovative, timely, and solution-oriented advice and legal support to GAO management on a broad array of human capital matters, including but not limited to performance management, employee misconduct, hiring, compensation, and working in a hybrid environment.
• Advising management on matters related to information technology, cybersecurity, and data; providing research and sound legal advice on relevant authorities; and reviewing related agreements.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable human capital-related laws, rules, and regulations, including applicable provisions of titles 5 and 31 of the U.S. Code, the GAO Personnel Act of 1980, and anti-discrimination statutes such as Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended, and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
• Drafting clearly written, legally sound, and persuasive legal analyses for GAO management on all aspects of Legal Services' portfolio.
• Advising GAO's labor-management relations office and others concerning administration of GAO's labor-management relations program, and serving as management's legal representative in grievance proceedings under the negotiated grievance procedure, including representing management before third-party arbitrators.
• Performing other duties as necessary to respond to novel and complex questions concerning GAO's personnel system, and to support GAO's efforts in carrying out its mission.

As a Program Manager you will:
- Provide vision, leadership, and direction to Office of Infrastructure, Infrastructure Policy and Controls employees by communicating NA-90 infrastructure goals, priorities, and actions.
- Be responsible for leading NA-90's program management processes including budget formulation and execution; baseline change control and performance reporting; risk management; coordination and completion of the annual update to the NA-90 Program Management Plan.
- Lead contract management support to NA-90 Program Managers such as coordinating procurement forecasts and actions and serve as the NA-90 Small Business POC.
- Support the Associate Administrator (AA) for Infrastructure (NA-90) and the Deputy Associate Administrator (DAA) for Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (NA-91) in interpreting, developing, and/or implementing complex, first- of-a-kind management policies, goals, objectives, and operation strategies that impact NA-90 Programs and NNSA mission results.

This position is located in the Financial Systems and Reporting Division (FSD), Office of Financial Management (OFM), Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (OCAO), in the United States Capitol Police (USCP). Serves as a senior accounting advisor responsible for providing professional advice and guidance to senior management related to the USCPs on financial accounting, reporting, and payment system operations. Oversees and directs subordinate staff in the performance of work that involves designing, implementing, and testing new systems or developing and testing modifications to existing systems or related software programs; developing financial reports; interfacing other reporting tools and payment systems; and plans, directs, and coordinates all aspects of the Division's operations. Responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating the financial accounting operations; reporting activities of the USCP including the compilation of the USCP annual financial statements and associated coordination with external auditors; processing and auditing vendor payment documents, including employee travel reimbursements; and coordinating problem resolution with vendors.

Provides authoritative interpretations, advice, and guidance to the Director of the OFM and other USCP management officials and directs the staff in preparing formal guidance and advice to agency management concerning USCP financial accounting, reporting, and payment system processes and procedures. Submits recommendations and plans for implementing new or modifying financial systems and resolving system­ related maintenance issues to the Director of OFM. Advises executive­ level management on necessary financial system modifications, enhancements, and policy decisions that involve updating current financial systems with new systems and capabilities. 

Provides technical advice and assistance in implementing necessary changes, configurations, verifications, and validation data. 
Develops system documentation and certification of OFM information systems. Analyzes existing application design, interfaces, and transaction processes and validates data integrity, security, and availability. Ensures appropriate guidance is provided to other USCP entities regarding the reconciliation data maintained in subsidiary systems with data maintained in the accounting system. 

This position is located in the Accounts Payable Division (APD), Office of Financial Management (OFM), Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (OCAO), in the United States Capitol Police (USCP). The incumbent conducts and oversees audits related to the area of responsibility, ensures audit follow-ups are completed, provides resolutions for accounts payable, travel discrepancies, or other fiscal or reporting matters. Functions as a senior advisor providing professional advice and guidance to senior management and subordinate personnel on difficult and controversial accounting and financial issues; and legal and regulatory requirements for accounting, reporting, cash management, and specialized areas of budget formulation and execution. Oversees and directs the analysis and evaluation of accounts payable and travel program issues and identifies acceptable resolutions.

Utilizes federal accounting standards, fiscal law, policies, regulations, principles, standards, internal controls, and procedures for financial management activities. Identifies and implements changes and improvements to internal controls within the APO. Provides financial guidance to OFM staff and other USCP units to ensure accurate classification and timely recording of transactions entered directly into the accounting system or in systems interfaced with the system, and to ensure data maintained subsidiary ledgers are reconciled with accounting system data on a timely basis. 

Provides a variety of analytical, technical, and administrative work for APO program areas including invoice payment, travel programs, reconciling cash, accounts payable, and other support activities. Verifies source documents for accuracy, determines necessary transactions, and identifies and analyzes changes in program plans, financial policies regulations, and constraints and their effect on organizational objectives. Reviews and maintains financial data and reports using business tools and applications, cost and economic analysis, and performance metrics to provide recommendations. Research and analyze information related to accounting processes to ensure completeness and accuracy of accounting transactions.

• You will advise on personnel security policies and related matters.
• You will determine eligibility for access to classified or sensitive information.
• You will prepare and present various security awareness lectures and personnel security indoctrinations and debriefings to students and staff members.
• You will purchase necessary supplies for the division and maintain cost center for funds allocated for special security activities.
• You will conduct interviews one on one with all ranks and pay grades regarding personnel security clearances.

• Serves as the data center and cloud SME for information and cybersecurity compliance, develops SOPs, and operational policies to ensure performance parameters, and policy guidance are implemented.
• Collaborates with managers and staff to support security compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and provides oversight of the organization's implementation of the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Advises management and staff of changes in cyber security systems policies and procedures, and works closely with Hosted Infrastructure (HI) project teams to implement security management enhancements.
• Serves as liaison between project teams and Department stakeholders that include the IT Change Control Board (CCB) to provide authoritative guidance regarding the configuration management process.
• Represents Division in deliberations with IT CCB voting members, and provides expert advice to senior management concerning vital cybersecurity problems and issues.

WHAT IS THE COMMUNICATION AND LIAISON (C&L) DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:

Communication and Liaison National Public Liaison: Business Stakeholder Relationship Management

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level. If this vacancy includes more than one grade and you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform these duties and receive training to help you grow in this position.

As a Front Line Manager you will:

• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluate work performance of subordinates and makes recommendations for outstanding performance recognition and/or disciplinary action.
• Give advice, counsel or instruction to employees on work and administrative matters.
• Interview candidates for positions within the organization/unit and recommend appointment, promotion or reassignment to such positions.
• Hear and resolve complaints from employees, refer group grievances and/or more serious unresolved complaints as appropriate.
• Effect minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommend other actions in more serious cases.
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training.
• Initiate ways to improve production, work processes and/or to increase the quality of the work directed.

• You will have the ability to direct vehicles and pedestrian traffic during emergencies and normal rush hour traffic to ensure that the entry control process is run in accordance with established procedures and naval regulations.
• You will retain, interview, and possibly arrest the unauthorized person(s).
• You will y be required to appear as a competent witness in a court of law, may be required to testify on the results of investigations performed and violations observed.

• You will serve as an ELECTRONICS ENGINEER in the PRECISE TIME DEPARTMENT, U.S. NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON, D.C.
• You will support the specification of requirements, the development of systems or software, the transition of the systems or software to operations, and other operations.
• You will participate in the processing and analysis of data in support of the mission area.
• You will perform a wide variety of research with the goal of contributing toward DoD related problems of current interest.