Clarification from the agency

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status. Current career Postal Service employees are ineligible to apply to this posting.

As a member of the Pricing and Product Support group of attorneys, you will have a varied portfolio that combines complex regulatory practice and administrative litigation with corporate governance, contract negotiation, business strategy, new product development, and more.

Our group represents the Postal Service before the Postal Regulatory Commission on domestic mail pricing matters.

The Law Department encourages any interested attorney to apply, regardless of background, but the ideal candidate would have some combination of experience in complex regulated environments, administrative law, government, contracts, competition, economics, finance, and business.

The position is located at Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and flexible, part-time telework is available.

Responsibilities

1. Conducts legal research and prepares written material for use in representing the Postal Service and advising postal management officials.
2. Participates in conferences necessary to representing or advising Postal Service officials.
3. Directly advises postal management officials and represents the Postal Service in legal matters involving outside parties.
4. Prepares replies to inquiries from Congress, government agencies, and the public.
5. Prepares opinions, memoranda, decisions, regulations, testimonies, or formal filings in proceedings in which the Postal Service is a party.

Conditions of employment

Our primary responsibilities include advising internal clients about, and preparing and filing pleadings with the Commission for -

• Setting domestic mail prices, promotions, and incentives;
• Creating new or modifying existing mail products;
• Entering into and modifying special pricing contracts; and
• Improving methodologies for calculating product costs.

Other responsibilities include -

• Drafting, reviewing, and filing various required reports with the Commission.
• Drafting or responding to comments on the Commission's rulemaking and regulatory proposals; and
• Drafting and reviewing the Postal Service's own rulemaking documents.

On occasion, we may also be called upon to prepare responses to inquiries from Congress, other governmental entities, and the public and to prepare formal filings in other proceedings in which the Postal Service is a party.

Come serve the American people in an energetic, lively, and collegial atmosphere on a wide range of complex, fast-paced, and challenging legal matters.

Qualifications

1. Ability to prepare pretrial briefs, motions, pleadings, responses, and other documents to present the issues independently with little or no direct supervision.
2. Ability to provide legal advice and services with respect to regulations, practices, or other legal matters, and formulate opinions involving the analysis and interpretation of federal, state, and local laws.
3. Ability to litigate cases before administrative bodies and federal courts.
4. Ability to communicate orally and in writing to include the ability to negotiate with third parties on behalf of clients and prepare legal documents and presentations.
5. Ability to conduct legal research to gather and interpret information and ensure accuracy of details using resources such as internal and external documents, archives, electronic databases, and interviews.
6. EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: To be eligible for the Attorney position, you must possess a Juris Doctorate from an American Bar Association accredited law school.
7. SPECIAL CONDITION: Qualified applicants must be a current member in good standing of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Bar Association.
8. EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENT: At least 3 years of experience in legal practice, of which one year of the experience requirement may be met through the completion of a judicial clerkship if completed by the time of hire. The clerkship must be documented in the applicant's resume.
9. Three years of required experience must include: (1) three years of experience working in the commercial practice of law, including facilitating and managing transactional matters OR (2) three years of experience primarily practicing commercial litigation or federal administrative litigation, including either (a) federal court litigation concerning complex and/or contract and other commercial dispute matters or advertising regulation or advertising law, or other corporate regulatory issues; OR (b) litigation before administrative agencies or federal courts involving complex matters.

Qualified applicant must successfully pass a drug screening.

How you will be evaluated

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

We will review your resume and supporting documents to ensure you meet the basic qualification requirements. We will evaluate each applicant who meets the basic qualifications on the information provided and evaluate your relevant professional, educational, and work experiences as it relates to fundamental competencies, identified in the Qualifications section above, required for this position.