Summary
The Civil Rights Division (CRT or Division) is seeking an experienced attorney to serve as the Chief of the Policy and Strategy Section. The Policy and Strategy Section supports and coordinates CRT's broad policy work by developing and analyzing legislative, regulatory, and policy proposals relating to the Division's enforcement authorities. To do this work, the Section works closely with the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Affairs and Office of Legal Policy.
This job is open to
Clarification from the agency
All groups of qualified individuals.
Duties
As the Chief of the Policy Section ("Section"), the successful candidate:
- Oversees the development, recommendation, and execution of civil rights policy initiatives that cut across many of the Division's enforcement authorities.
- Ensures that the Policy Section is developing policy initiatives that complement and advance the Division's litigation and enforcement priorities.
- Spearheads the identification of policy issues or approaches that may be of interest to the Division and engages with senior leadership from the Division and Department of Justice ("DOJ" or "Department").
- Coordinates the Policy Section's participation in a wide array of federal working groups addressing civil rights issues, including but not limited to, criminal justice, hate crimes, servicemenbers and veterans' rights, and concerns at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and civil rights.
- Meets, coordinates, solicits input from, and fosters good working relationships with the United States Attorneys' Offices, other Department components, federal agency partners, state and local human rights agencies, and civil rights stakeholders.
- Speaks at meetings and conferences to educate other governmental agencies, industry, and/or the public about the work of the Section. Coordinates outreach to community organizations and other key stakeholders.
- Serves as a liaison to the Department's Office of Legislative Affairs, helping to coordinate presentations, prepare written testimony and draft reports on civil rights matters before Congress.
- Advises and consults with the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and the Deputy Assistant Attorneys General. Coordinates with the Division's other Section leaders as appropriate.
- Advises and consults with senior leadership from the Division and the Department, reporting on the immediate status of civil rights policy matters that fall under the Policy Section's areas of oversight.
- Serves as the reviewing official for evaluations of attorneys and other staff within the Section.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Office of the Assistant Attorney General.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. Citizen to qualify for this position.
- You must provide responses to 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.
- You 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 (OGE-278) will be required upon entry into the Senior Executive Service and annually thereafter.
Qualifications
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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) and three (3) Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) listed below. Written statements that include any form of "see resume" in an effort to satisfy the MTQ or ECQ requirement will result in removal from consideration for the position. Further, failure to address both the ECQs (as applicable) and MTQs separately as set forth below will also remove you from consideration for this position.
If 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 are not required to submit the ECQ narratives; however, you must submit the appropriate SF50 (showing SES status) or an OPM Qualifications Review Board certificate.
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.
You must also 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.
Mandatory Technical Qualifications:
MTQ 1 - Demonstrated experience working with civil rights statutes and regulations as they relate to the policy and objectives of the Civil Rights Division.
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.
Education
Applicants must possess a J.D. degree from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association and be a member in good standing of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico bar. (Include in your resume the month and year in which you obtained your degree and the name of the College or University from which it was conferred/awarded.)
Benefits
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How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Only experience obtained by the 11:59pm EST on the closing date 07/23/2024 of this announcement will be considered.
After this announcement closes:
- An HR Specialist will review your resume, ECQs, MTQs, and supporting (required) documentation.
- Applicants found minimally qualified will be referred to an Executive Resources Board (ERB).
- The ERB will evaluate applications to determine the best qualified applicants for referral to the hiring official.
- The hiring official may contact applicants to participate in an interview. Interviews may be in a virtual setting or in person at DOJ offices.
- The hiring official will make a selection, which must be approved by CRT's Assistant Attorney General.
- The selected candidate's ECQs and resume will be evaluated by a Quality Review Board (QRB) at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), as required by law. A QRB must review/approve the executive qualifications of each new career appointee to the Senior Executive Service (SES) prior to appointment.
Required Documents
To be considered for this position, you must provide a complete application package which includes, as applicable:
- A comprehensive resume that also indicates the name of the college or university, and month and year, from which you obtained your J.D.
- Your resume must 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.
- ECQ narratives (each ECQ must not exceed two pages; not to exceed 10 pages total)
- MTQ narratives (1 page per MTQ)
- Recent SF-50 that shows Official Title, Grade Level, Status
- Certification of OPM QRB approval (for graduates of SES Candidate Development Programs)
- Other supporting documentation as required.
Applicants who fail to submit all information as described in this job announcement (i.e., page limits on ECQs, page limits on MTQs, etc.) and documents (i.e., resume, and other documents as applicable) WILL NOT receive consideration for this position.
It is highly encouraged that applicants submit their most recent performance appraisal.
How to Apply
To begin the process, click the Apply Online button to create an account or log in to your existing USAJOBS account.
Failure to submit a complete application (resume and all supporting documents) by 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 07/23/2024 may result in an ineligible rating and loss of consideration. Please follow all instructions carefully as missing application information will not be requested. It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date.
If more than one resume is received, only the last resume submitted will be reviewed.
Note: To check the status of your application or return to a previous or incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account: https://usajobs.gov/Account/Login select Application Status and click on the more information link under the application status for this position.
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Do not email or send hard copy resumes/applications to the Contact Information or Agency Information listed in this vacancy announcement. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement.
You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. If you are unable to apply online, you must request an alternative method to apply from the Human Resources Office. Please contact Civil Rights Division atDiane.M.Turner@usdoj.gov.
Next steps
An Executive Resources Board (ERB) will evaluate you based on your responses to the MTQs and ECQs, as well as the quality and extent to which your application shows that you possess the knowledge, experience and skills required for this position, as defined above. After conducting the initial round of interviews of highly-qualified individuals, the ERB will refer the top applicants to the selecting official for consideration. If selected for this position, you must be certified by an OPM independent Qualifications Review Board (QRB) as a prerequisite for final selection, unless you are a current SES career executive, are eligible for reinstatement based on prior career service in the SES, or have successfully participated in and graduated from an OPM approved SES Candidate Development Program.
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