Clarification from the agency

Current Federal employees in permanent competitive service positions (status candidates) in all U.S. Attorneys' offices and the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys, plus well-qualified surplus and displaced DOJ employees (CTAP) in the local commuting area. Internal Employees Only.

The incumbent serves as a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist for the Office of eLitigation (OEL) overseeing the functions of the eDiscovery Unit and is responsible for directing, training, and educating eDiscovery Unit (EDU) specialists in all aspects of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (ERDM); providing technical, administrative, and analytical assistance involving other IT specialty areas to support the litigation technology needs of the USAO-DC; and promoting, training, and educating USAO-DC users on eDiscovery tools including Everlaw and Relativity.

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team that is responsible for providing district-wide eLitigation Technology support for the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia (USAO-DC).

Typical work assignments will include:

• Exercises delegated supervisory authorities and responsibilities and translates the agenda of the OEL into discrete actions to be carried out by the staff assigned to the EDU.
• Provides direction and implementation of eDiscovery program operation and coordination with specialists performing essential litigation support (LS) tasks associated with day-to-day operations.
• Oversees and/or manages operation of the USAO-DC's LS systems, which includes overseeing a wide range of the IT support technology required to meet USAO-DC's information needs utilizing network hardware and software capabilities, including specialty LS software.
• Acts as an eDiscovery subject matter expert for office. This includes promoting, training, and educating the office on eDiscovery tools including Everlaw, Relativity and Beyond Compare; and providing oversight to the EDU to ensure that the team of specialists are following best practices, standard operating procedures, and ensuring practice/deliverable defensibility.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• If selected, you will be subject to the satisfactory completion of a one year supervisory or managerial probationary period unless this requirement has been met previously.
• Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access depending on organizational assignment / duty location.

Qualifications

Note: In order to be considered "qualified" for this position, your specialized experience must be described in your resume. Please be sure that your resume clearly states any and all of the specialized experience that you may have. If your specialized experience is not clearly stated in your resume, you will not be considered for this position.

To be qualified at the GS-13 level, you must demonstrate possession of each of the following basic competencies AND at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in Federal Service as defined below:

Basic Requirement:
Information Technology (IT)-related experience, obtained through paid or unpaid experience and/or completion of specific, intensive training, demonstrating each of the following competences:

• Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Customer Service: Works with clients and customers (that is, any individuals who use or receive the services or products that your work until provides, including the general public, individuals who work in the agency, other agencies, or organizations outside the Government) to assess their needs, provide information or assistance, resolve their problems, or satisfy their expectations; knows about available products and services; is committed to providing quality products and services.
• Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and respond appropriately.
• Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.

AND

To be found qualified at the GS-13 level, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and typically consists of experience in or related to the position to be filled. Examples of specialized experience are: identifying, translating and managing the agenda and the program responsibilities actions to be carried out by the staff; researching and analyzing available technologies, systems and management processes to implement strategies to achieve defined goals; designing, planning, and managing a district's litigation support processes by implementing state-of-the-art technologies and management processes to advance investigatory and eLitigation priorities, including securely obtaining, segregating, analyzing, storing, sharing, documenting, displaying, and disposing of physical and electronic evidence; ensuring the litigation technology program is consistent with laws and policies governing document security, sharing and retention; and addressing competing systems, requirements, priorities, and policies of government agencies, components, state and local governments, courts, and counsel.

The USAO-DC environment includes personal computers, routers, switches, bridges, transmission media, a wide area network and local area network, operating systems, case management systems and litigation support operations. LS administration responsibilities are considered complex in terms of communications limitations, the need to modify standard systems to resolve hardware and software problems, and the need to adapt precedents or make significant departures from standardized approaches to meet user requirements.

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)-The CTAP provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing that you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility, 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement, and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notification of CTAP eligibility with your application. Additional information about CTAP eligibility is at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

How you will be evaluated

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

Your complete application package (resume/supporting documentation, online questionnaire, and USA Hire Competency Based Assessment) will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are basically qualified for this job, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the online questionnaire. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application materials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this job. If you are found to be among the top candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.

You will be rated on the following Competencies (see The OPM Website for definitions):


To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and application questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.

The assessment includes a cut score based on the minimum level of required proficiency in these critical general competencies. You must meet or exceed the cut score to be considered. You will not be considered for the position if you score below the cut score or fail to complete the assessment.

Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or application questionnaire may result in your removal from consideration. Cheating on the online assessment may also result in your removal from consideration.