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The Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, is looking for enthusiastic individuals to join the General Legal Services (GLS) team and gain valuable experience specializing in labor and employment law.
We are hiring for our Atlanta (Area Counsel office) and our Washington, DC (Ethics and General Government Law Branch).
Learn more about this agency09/16/2021 to 10/07/2021
$84,008 - $103,690 per year
GS 11 - 13
Few vacancies in the following locations:
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - Limited travel may be required.
No
Permanent - Permanent (initial appointment is temporary if not admitted to practice law by date of appointment)
Full-time - Full-time excepted service appointment
Excepted
14
No
No
CCHY-ARR-21-3
614129300
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Current excepted service federal employees.
U.S. Citizens; no prior Federal experience is required.
The mission of the Office of Chief Counsel, General Legal Services, is to serve our clients and customers by providing the highest quality legal advice and representation with integrity and professionalism, supporting the missions of the IRS and the Office of Chief Counsel. Because of its tax-related mission, the Office of Chief Counsel requires fingerprinting, tax verification, and a background investigation as part of the pre-employment process.
GLS Area Counsel Offices provide legal advice and represent the IRS and Office of Chief Counsel in litigation on various federal labor and employment issues involving personnel, discrimination (EEOC), and labor-management relations before fora such as the Merit Systems Protection Board, Federal Labor Relations Authority, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and in arbitration. They provide litigation support to the Department of Justice with respect to these labor and personnel issues, Bivens suits, and other miscellaneous non-tax suits filed in their geographic area.
The Ethics and General Government Law Branch provides legal support to the Office of the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and to the Office of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, performing assignments which include: Providing ethics advisory opinions and advice; providing other legal services related to the administration of the Ethics in Government Act, including ethics training and briefings, and reviewing financial disclosure reports of Service and Chief Counsel employees who are required to file such reports; providing advisory opinions to agency officials on non-tax laws, regulations, and decisions governing the management of federal agencies with respect to matters such as appropriations and fiscal law, delegations of authority, records and property management, the Federal Advisory Committee Act, intellectual property, and a wide range of other general government issues.
The Office of Associate Chief Counsel, General Legal Services employs approximately 65 attorneys nationwide in 6 Area Counsel Offices and 3 Program Branches in the D.C. National Office.
Your application includes your resume, transcript, writing sample, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents (if applicable). If you are using your GPA to qualify, you must include supporting documentation that confirms your GPA (for example, a transcript). If you are using your class ranking to qualify, you must include supporting documentation that confirms your class rank (for example, a document from your school showing your class rank, transcript, etc).
Please be sure that your package includes any necessary documentation to support your qualifications for this position, as failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a “not qualified” determination.
Only applicants who are attending law school or have attended law school are eligible to apply for this position. If you do not meet this criteria, your application will not be accepted.
Eligibility is limited to candidates who graduate from law school between Oct. 1, 2021 and Sept. 30, 2022 ("graduation date requirement") and recent graduates who began participating in eligibility preserving activities within 9 months of graduation. Eligibility preserving activities are full-time activities starting after graduation that preserve eligibility for the Program. They include judicial clerkships, relevant graduate programs, or qualifying legal fellowships. To qualify, fellowships must have a formal sponsor (e.g., a non-profit, bar association, corporation, school), an established legal mission, a fixed duration, and be publicly advertised as a fellowship at the time the candidate applied. Fellowships that require fellows to seek other employment and terminate upon permanent legal employment do not qualify. Gaps between eligibility preserving activities cannot exceed 120 days. Participation must be active through at least Dec. 1 of the application year. Graduates who received their J.D. prior to Oct. 1, 2018 ("eligibility cut-off date") are ineligible.
If you are not a licensed attorney when you join the Program, you will be hired as a Law Clerk. Upon admission to the bar, and satisfactory interim employment, you will be eligible for conversion to an Attorney position. You must be admitted to practice law within 14 months of your appointment.
The Office of Chief Counsel, General Legal Services is currently teleworking with the option to report to the workplace, as needed, and with prior approval. If you are offered an attorney position, you must move to either the Atlanta, GA or the Washington, DC commuting area prior to starting this position.
Required Qualifications:
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement:
Class Rank Requirement:
Attributes of an Ideal Candidate:
You must have graduated with a J.D. or a LL.M. from an ABA-accredited law school before you begin the Honors Program position.
Visit our Careers Website at https://www.jobs.irs.gov/counsel
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Rating: Your application will be evaluated using the requirements in the qualifications section.
Referral: Veterans' preference is applied after applicants are assessed. Preference-eligibles will be listed at the top of the referral list and considered before non-preference-eligibles. All other candidates will be listed below those with preference. If you are among the top qualified candidates, you may be required to participate in a selection interview. We will not reimburse costs related to the interview, such as travel to and from the interview site.
Complete application packages include:
Please note that if you do not provide all required information as specified in this announcement, you may not be considered for this position (or may not receive the special consideration for which you may be eligible). All applicants are required to submit a resume either by creating one in USAJOBS or uploading one of their own choosing. (Cover letters are optional.) To receive full credit for relevant experience, please list the month/year and number of hours worked for experience listed on your resume. We suggest that you preview the online questions, as you may need to customize your resume to ensure that it supports your responses to these questions. Please view resume tips.
VETERANS' PREFERENCE DOCUMENTATION: There is no formal rating system for applying veterans' preference to attorney appointments in the excepted service; however, the Office of Chief Counsel considers veterans' preference eligibility as a positive factor in attorney hiring. If you are claiming veterans’ preference, you must submit a copy of your Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, DD-214 (Member 4 copy), or other official documentation from a branch of the Armed Forces or the Department of Veterans Affairs showing dates of service and type of discharge. Ten-point preference eligibles must also submit an Application for 10-point Veteran Preference, SF-15, along with the required documentation listed on the back of the SF-15 form. For more information on veterans' preference, view FedsHireVets
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
The following instructions outline our application process. You must complete this application process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. We are available to assist you during business hours (7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. ET, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, please contact us by noon ET on the announcement's closing date. Treasury provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us if you require this for any part of the application and hiring process.
You may check the status of your application for this position at any time by logging onto the USAJOBS My Account tab and clicking on Application Status. The "additional application information" link may not be available if your application status says "Unavailable." This indicates that your application is not complete. If the "additional application information" link is not available and the vacancy is still open, you can click on the job announcement and "Update Application" to be taken back to the CareerConnector portion of the application. For a more detailed update of your application status, you may click on more information. Please notify us if your contact information changes after the closing date of the announcement. Also, note that if you provide an email address that is inaccurate or if your mailbox is full or blocked (e.g., spam-blocker), you may not receive important communication that could affect your consideration for this position
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/614129300. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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