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The Department of Justice is seeking experienced attorneys for the Office of Information Policy (OIP). OIP manages the responsibilities related to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to include coordinating and implementing policy development and compliance for the FOIA, processing FOIA requests for senior leadership, adjudicating administrative appeals from denials by any Department component under the FOIA, and assisting in the defense of certain FOIA matters in litigation.
Learn more about this agency02/16/2024 to 02/29/2024
$99,200 - $181,216 per year
GS-12: $99,200 - $128,956 / GS-13: $117,962 - $153,354 / GS-14: $139,395 - 181,216
GS 12 - 14
2 vacancies in the following location:
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Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
No
Permanent
Full-time
Excepted
15
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Yes
OIP-24-12322593
777244700
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OIP is hiring an Attorney-Advisor GS-0905-12/13/14, to work on its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Compliance Staff. The attorney will perform legal, policy, and technical work to support the Office's responsibilities to oversee and encourage government-wide compliance with FOIA. The responsibilities will include interpreting and applying laws, executive orders, regulations, precedents, and agency practices relating to FOIA. The responsibilities will include interpreting and applying laws, executive orders, regulations, precedents, and agency practices relating to FOIA. Specific responsibilities may include:
Salary and grade level determinations are made based on the number of years of qualifying experience and current salary level. The salary ranges for this position are GS-12 through GS-14 which is $99,200 - $181, 216.
Please note that the location is negotiable with a preference for DC-MD-VA-WV-PA locality based applicants. If you are within the DC locality area, you are required to report to the official worksite a minimum of twice per pay period.
OIP attorneys may be assigned/reassigned to any one of several distinct but inter-related teams based on mission-critical office needs. Those teams include the Administrative Appeals Staff, which adjudicates administrative appeals from Department components' FOIA determinations; the Initial Request (IR) Staff, which processes FOIA requests on behalf of the Department's leadership offices; the IR FOIA Litigation Staff, which handles FOIA requests subject to litigations; or the FOIA Compliance Staff, which supports the Office's responsibilities to oversee and encourage government-wide compliance with the FOIA.
Please note that the time from selection of an applicant to the start date is typically about 3 months.
COVID-19 Vaccination:
1. To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement Safer Federal Workforce Task Force 2 pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to Executive Order 14043, that requirement does not currently apply. Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine.
2. Due to COVID-19, if selected, you may be expected to telework for an undefined period under the Department's evacuation authority, even if your home is located outside the local commuting area. Employees in this status may be notified of a requirement to report in person to the component workplace with an advance notice of not less than 30 days. Prior to a requirement to report to the workplace, employees may be eligible to request to continue to telework one or more days a pay period depending upon the terms of the component's telework policy.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Applicants are required to submit a cover letter (highlighting relevant experience and justifying interest in the position), resume, unofficial transcript, and a writing sample containing a brief or comparable analytic legal exposition that is your work.
Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Interested candidates should submit all of the following:
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 application materials are required to be submitted electronically as a pdf file by all applicants (including attorneys currently appointed to positions in the Department of Justice) and emailed to Laurie.Day@usdoj.gov.
No telephone calls please. Please reference OIP-ATTY-0224 in your cover letter and put your name in the subject of the email. Applications must be received no later than midnight EST February 19, 2024. Otherwise, please send to: Attn: Laurie A. Day, Office of Information Policy, 441 G Street, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20530.
This and other vacancy announcements can be found under Attorney Vacancies and Volunteer Legal Internships.
For more information about OPR, please visit our Web page at: https://www.justice.gov/opr
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