Total 7 education training job vacancies in Administrative / Clerical category in sa remote flinders and far north region

This position is located in the Office of Chief Counsel. As a Attorney-Advisor (General Administrative Law), GS-0905-13/14, your typical work assignments may include:

• Providing legal counsel on all activities and matters involving immediate and long-term Homeland Security (DHS) initiatives, operations, programs, and policies.
• Advising and serving as liaison to DHS and FLETC staff, as appropriate. Is recognized as the FLETC legal expert in the subject matters of real property, environmental law, tort claims, and standards of conduct law (ethics).
• Serving as legal consultant to the highest levels of FLETC management, including the Chief Counsel, recommending approaches to legal issues where precedents and prior interpretations must be innovatively adapted.
• Developing, or overseeing the development of, legal positions, legislative proposals, regulatory documents, policies and operations that involve significantly broadening or restricting agency activities affecting the agency's security posture and the public interest, and recommending legal approaches regarding novel issues for which the importance of the legal action/position as precedent is highly significant.
• Advising clients at the Assistant Director (AD) level and is responsible for responding directly to the ADs/Deputy Assistant Directors (DADs) and their staffs with immediate assistance. Recognizes issues with national and/or international importance and is
  responsible for providing relevant information directly to the Chief Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, the ADs and/or other senior staff.
• Providing written and oral counsel, legal reviews, opinions, regulations or decisions in the application of the U.S. Constitution, federal laws, legislation, or policies to programs conducted or assisted by DHS components, and to DHS policies.
• Serving as an attorney on the staff of the Deputy Chief Counsel to provide legal advice concerning the statutory and regulatory basis for environmental compliance, real property transactions, standards of conduct (ethics), tort claims and internal agency regulations and policies.
• Providing assistance to Department of Justice attorneys representing the agency in tort, environmental, and real property legal actions.
• Serving as the agency subject matter expert in the Federal Tort Claims Act, and the Military Personnel and Civilian Employee Claims Act.
• Providing legal review and advice concerning employee compliance with federal standards of conduct (5 C.F.R. part 2635). Responsible for the administration of the agency's training of federal employees on the federal standards of conduct and providing such training to agency employees. Such training includes oral and written presentations, and use of electronic media.
• Providing advice on all environmental and occupational health issues and statutes such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Toxic Substance Control Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and state and local statutes and regulations implementing the federal programs.
• Managing the agency's tort claims act process to ensure proper research, analysis, and advice is presented to the agency decision authority. Remains proficient in the principles of tort law.
• Providing legal review and advice to the agency's Training Accident Investigation Team to ensure reports thoroughly analyze the incident, accurately convey the cause of accident, and present realistic, future preventive measures, all in the context of a report which may not be privileged from public disclosure. Serves as the legal advisor to the accident investigation team.
• Developing legally sound approaches regarding sensitive matters, such as privacy and civil rights and liberties of the staff, and delicate personnel and other matters. May be assigned other legal actions in the Office of Chief Counsel practice area to include labor and employment law, Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act matters, or any other legal issue arising from the FLETC's operations.
• Representing OCC in conferences and meetings with representatives of other FLETC Directorates and offices, and federal, state, and local governmental entities, regarding legal matters of interest.
• Serving as the subject matter expert to the FLETC client organizations within his/her subject matter area. May provide technical legal and administrative supervision to various working groups.