Clarification from the agency

Open to all groups of qualified individuals .

As Principal Deputy Chief, the successful candidate:

• Acts as the Section's senior management advisor and assists the ELS Chief as a consultant in planning and directing a nationwide program to enforce the federal civil rights laws prohibiting employment discrimination.
• Advises the Section Chief on personnel, overall management planning, litigative program development, budget, and other matters; and participates in the decisional process relating to these subjects. S/he supervises - directly and through subordinate managers and supervisors - attorneys, professional staff, civil rights analysts and legal support personnel.
• Supervises various administrative tasks, including evaluating attorneys. The Principal Deputy Chief monitors the work of less experienced attorneys to ensure that they are provided appropriate guidance, review and constructive feedback regarding performance.
• Oversees the preparation, review, and editing of complaints, other pleadings, discovery requests and responses, motions, briefs, proposed consent decrees and other legal documents. Oversees all aspects of pretrial discovery and motion practices to ensure the development of testimonial and documentary evidence for trial. Personally handles the most sensitive and difficult cases, including those with facts that are complex and voluminous.
• Meets, coordinates, and fosters good working relationships with the United States Attorneys' Offices, other Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) components, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States Department of Labor and other partner agencies.
• Coordinates with counsel for private litigants in cases in which the Government intervenes; confers with the United States Attorneys' Offices at all important stages of litigation; and meets with the public (and their delegations), law enforcement entities, and others.
• Consults with and advises on an emergency basis the Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and the Associate Attorney General, reporting on the immediate status of civil rights matters that fall under the Section's areas of oversight.
• Consults with and advises the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and the Deputy Assistant Attorneys General. Coordinates with the Division's other litigation Section Chiefs and Deputy Chiefs as appropriate.
• Speaks at meetings and conferences to educate other governmental agencies, industry, and/or the public about the work of the Section. Meets and conducts outreach to community organizations and other interested parties.
• Collaborates with the Chief and Deputy Chiefs to identify, develop and implement strategies to ensure effective and consistent enforcement of federal employment laws that prohibit discrimination.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Section Chief.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to qualify for this position.
• You must provide the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs).
• You must complete a background investigation to include pre-employment drug testing. Continued employment is contingent upon successful completion and adjudication of your background investigation.
• You must have a Juris Doctorate degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association and be an active member in good standing of the bar of a state or territory of the US, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
• Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Applicants seeking initial career appointment to the Senior Executive Service are subject to a one-year probationary period.
• Veterans' preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service.
• Selective Service - If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.
• A public Financial Disclosure report will be required annually.

Qualifications

Only experience obtained by closing date of this announcement will be considered.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is required by law to review the executive qualifications of each new career appointee to the Senior Executive Service (SES) prior to appointment. To be considered for this position, you must submit a written statement addressing the five (5) Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) listed below at section 3. Failure to address both the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and the ECQs as set forth below will adversely affect your chances for selection.

Current members of the career SES, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and OPM/QRB certified candidates need not address the ECQs.

You must submit a separate narrative statement that addresses each of the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) related to this position; limit your responses to no more than one page for each MTQ. Unless you are a current Senior Executive Service (SES) career appointee, a former SES member having reinstatement eligibility, or an OPM-certified graduate of an approved SES Candidate Development Program, you must also submit a separate narrative statement addressing each of the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) related to all positions in the SES. The ECQ narrative is limited to no more than two pages per ECQ (must not exceed 10 pages total).

You must address how you have demonstrated progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior executive level managerial capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined in this job announcement. Qualified candidates typically gain experience of this nature at or above the GS-15 grade level in the Federal service or its equivalent with state or local government, the private sector, or nongovernmental organizations. For examples and guidance on writing effective ECQ narrative statements, you are strongly encouraged to review the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Guide to Senior Executive Service Qualifications. You must use the Challenge - Context - Action - Result (CCAR) model when describing your accomplishments.

Mandatory Technical Qualifications:

MTQ 1 - Extensive experience working with one or more of the applicable statutory provisions (the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, 38 U.S.C. §43; the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, 38 U.S.C. § 4212; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e; Executive Order 11246-Nondiscrimination in government employment; Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 793).

MTQ 2 - Demonstrated experience managing a complex organization, a diverse workforce (including lawyers, non-lawyer professionals, and support staff), and challenging organizational issues while enforcing the law.

MTQ 3 - Demonstrated experience communicating effectively on complex legal and technical issues through oral and written communication, including the ability to advocate successfully with diverse stakeholders, external partners and individuals or groups having differing and often conflicting interests, on matters related to the successful execution of a large-scale organization's mission, programs and projects.

Executive Core Qualifications:

• Leading Change: This core qualification involves 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. Leadership Competencies for ECQ-1: creativity and innovation, external awareness, flexibility, resilience, strategic thinking, vision.
• Leading People: This core qualification involves 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. Leadership Competencies for ECQ-2: conflict management, leveraging diversity, developing others, team building.
• Results Driven: This core qualification involves 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. Leadership Competencies for ECQ-3: accountability, customer service, decisiveness, entrepreneurship, problem solving, technical credibility.
• Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies for ECQ-4: financial management, human capital management, technology management.
• Building Coalitions: This core qualification involves 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. Leadership Competencies for ECQ-5: partnering, political savvy, influencing/negotiating.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Please see Application Requirements for specific instructions. The resume should demonstrate the necessary level of management skills, characteristics, qualities, specialized knowledge, and technical competence that would indicate successful performance in the SES. This evidence must include clear and concise examples that emphasize the applicant's level of responsibilities, scope, and complexity of programs managed, program accomplishments, policy initiatives, and level of contacts.