General Counsel
Duties Help Duties Summary The General Counsel is one of three statutory officers at the FEC and reports directly to the Commission.
The Office of General Counsel (OGC) consists of five organizational units:
(1) the Deputy General Counsel - Administration, (2) the Deputy General Counsel - Law, (3) the Enforcement Division, (4) the Litigation Division and (5) the Policy Division.
Learn more about this agency Responsibilities As a General Counsel, EX-0905-V, your work assignments include:
Providing executive management and direction of all administrative and technical aspects of the FEC's legal programs, including strategic planning, administrative law, evaluation of statutory and judicial developments, decisions about precedent actions, and policy formulation that impact the entire range of federal campaign finance activities.
Meeting with Senior Staff to set major agency-wide policy and review program achievements based on recommendations from staff, program managers, program administrators, task forces, and others.
Developing, conceiving, planning, and implementing policies and programs within the Office of General Counsel.
Managing resources, developing long-range plans and priorities, developing strategic operational goals, evaluating program effectiveness, and identifying opportunities for increasing process or program efficiency for the Office of General Counsel.
Serving as legal counsel to the Commission, providing legal opinions, advice and guidance on agency operations and campaign finance law matters, including enforcement of the Federal Election Campaign Act and implementing regulations, rulemakings and the Administrative Procedure Act, advisory opinions, Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act, and employment law.
Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Supervisory status Yes Promotion Potential 00 Job family (Series) 0905 Attorney Similar jobs Attorneys Requirements Help Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a US citizen or national.
You must be able to pass a background investigation.
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see Legal and regulatory guidance below).
This position serves at the pleasure of the Commission.
Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
You must meet qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.
This is a Non-Bargaining Unit Position.
Qualifications In order to qualify, you must meet the Basic Requirements, the Technical Qualifications, and the Executive and Managerial Qualifications described below.
A copy of your transcripts must be provided with your application.
Basic Requirements:
A.
Law degree (JD or LL.
B.
) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.
And B.
Bar Membership:
Be an active member in good standing of a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
Technical
Qualifications:
(Your resume must include evidence of the following experience, including dates.
) You must have 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience working as a practicing attorney in any of the following duty areas:
compliance, litigation, investigations, civil or criminal law enforcement, regulations/policy, or other similar areas.
At least one year of this experience must be comparable in scope and responsibility to the Senior Level (SL).
This must include activities such as:
(1) Managing all administrative and/or technical aspects of a legal program, such as managing resources, developing long-range plans, developing strategic operational goals, and evaluating program effectiveness; (2) Directing the full range of legal affairs for an organization including legal policy, enforcement, litigation, advisory services, and complaints examination; and (3) Analyzing complex legal issues having to do with campaign finance law, including regulatory and/or constitutional issues.
Executive and Managerial
Qualifications:
Please respond to the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) in a narrative format.
You may use the Challenge-Context-Action-Result (CCAR) Model to describe your accomplishments.
Challenge:
Describe a specific problem or goal.
Context:
Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (eg, clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale).
Action:
Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
Result:
Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization.
These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.
ECQ 1 - Leading Change:
The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals.
Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
ECQ 2 - Leading People:
The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals.
Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
ECQ 3 - Results Driven:
The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations.
Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
ECQ 4 - Business Acumen:
The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
ECQ 5 - Building Coalitions:
The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
In addition, you must provide a cover letter describing your experience with the competencies identified below:
Leadership:
Ability to influence, motivate, and challenge others, as well as adapt leadership style to a variety of situations.
Providing direction in the development of legal initiatives and related policies.
Legal, Government and Jurisprudence:
Ability to advise senior leadership on the impact of new or revised statutes, rules, and regulations.
Proficiency in orally arguing or briefing.
Drafting, reviewing, and developing written commentary or opinions on legislative changes and/or new legislation.
Oral Communication:
Expresses ideas and facts to individuals or groups effectively; makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others; facilitates an open exchange of ideas.
Written Communication:
Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.
For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website.
Part-time or unpaid
Experience:
Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work.
You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.
Volunteer or unpaid
Experience:
Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (ie, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (eg, professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education Are you using your education to qualify? You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
Unless otherwise stated:
(1) unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course.
All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
Foreign education:
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited US education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a US accredited college or university.
For further information, click here.
You must provide translated transcripts.
#06022021.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
The Office of General Counsel (OGC) consists of five organizational units:
(1) the Deputy General Counsel - Administration, (2) the Deputy General Counsel - Law, (3) the Enforcement Division, (4) the Litigation Division and (5) the Policy Division.
Learn more about this agency Responsibilities As a General Counsel, EX-0905-V, your work assignments include:
Providing executive management and direction of all administrative and technical aspects of the FEC's legal programs, including strategic planning, administrative law, evaluation of statutory and judicial developments, decisions about precedent actions, and policy formulation that impact the entire range of federal campaign finance activities.
Meeting with Senior Staff to set major agency-wide policy and review program achievements based on recommendations from staff, program managers, program administrators, task forces, and others.
Developing, conceiving, planning, and implementing policies and programs within the Office of General Counsel.
Managing resources, developing long-range plans and priorities, developing strategic operational goals, evaluating program effectiveness, and identifying opportunities for increasing process or program efficiency for the Office of General Counsel.
Serving as legal counsel to the Commission, providing legal opinions, advice and guidance on agency operations and campaign finance law matters, including enforcement of the Federal Election Campaign Act and implementing regulations, rulemakings and the Administrative Procedure Act, advisory opinions, Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act, and employment law.
Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Supervisory status Yes Promotion Potential 00 Job family (Series) 0905 Attorney Similar jobs Attorneys Requirements Help Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a US citizen or national.
You must be able to pass a background investigation.
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service (see Legal and regulatory guidance below).
This position serves at the pleasure of the Commission.
Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
You must meet qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement.
This is a Non-Bargaining Unit Position.
Qualifications In order to qualify, you must meet the Basic Requirements, the Technical Qualifications, and the Executive and Managerial Qualifications described below.
A copy of your transcripts must be provided with your application.
Basic Requirements:
A.
Law degree (JD or LL.
B.
) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association.
And B.
Bar Membership:
Be an active member in good standing of a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
Technical
Qualifications:
(Your resume must include evidence of the following experience, including dates.
) You must have 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience working as a practicing attorney in any of the following duty areas:
compliance, litigation, investigations, civil or criminal law enforcement, regulations/policy, or other similar areas.
At least one year of this experience must be comparable in scope and responsibility to the Senior Level (SL).
This must include activities such as:
(1) Managing all administrative and/or technical aspects of a legal program, such as managing resources, developing long-range plans, developing strategic operational goals, and evaluating program effectiveness; (2) Directing the full range of legal affairs for an organization including legal policy, enforcement, litigation, advisory services, and complaints examination; and (3) Analyzing complex legal issues having to do with campaign finance law, including regulatory and/or constitutional issues.
Executive and Managerial
Qualifications:
Please respond to the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) in a narrative format.
You may use the Challenge-Context-Action-Result (CCAR) Model to describe your accomplishments.
Challenge:
Describe a specific problem or goal.
Context:
Describe the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to address a particular challenge (eg, clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale).
Action:
Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.
Result:
Give specific examples of measures/outcomes that had some impact on the organization.
These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.
ECQ 1 - Leading Change:
The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals.
Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
ECQ 2 - Leading People:
The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals.
Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
ECQ 3 - Results Driven:
The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations.
Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
ECQ 4 - Business Acumen:
The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
ECQ 5 - Building Coalitions:
The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
In addition, you must provide a cover letter describing your experience with the competencies identified below:
Leadership:
Ability to influence, motivate, and challenge others, as well as adapt leadership style to a variety of situations.
Providing direction in the development of legal initiatives and related policies.
Legal, Government and Jurisprudence:
Ability to advise senior leadership on the impact of new or revised statutes, rules, and regulations.
Proficiency in orally arguing or briefing.
Drafting, reviewing, and developing written commentary or opinions on legislative changes and/or new legislation.
Oral Communication:
Expresses ideas and facts to individuals or groups effectively; makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others; facilitates an open exchange of ideas.
Written Communication:
Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.
For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website.
Part-time or unpaid
Experience:
Credit will be given for appropriate unpaid and or part-time work.
You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week.
Volunteer or unpaid
Experience:
Refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service Programs (ie, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (eg, professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student and social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills that can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Education Are you using your education to qualify? You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
Unless otherwise stated:
(1) unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course.
All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
Foreign education:
If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited US education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a US accredited college or university.
For further information, click here.
You must provide translated transcripts.
#06022021.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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