Supervisory Legal Assistant (Office Automation)

Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for a Supervisory Legal Assistant (Office Automation) within the Department of Justice, United States Attorneys' Offices, specifically in the Los Angeles Office of the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. The role involves providing administrative and technical supervision to support staff in Asset Forfeiture and Discovery, and directly supporting Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) with complex legal clerical work. The department is committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication (fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing).
Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
May be required to complete a one year probationary period.
If selected, will be subject to the satisfactory completion of a one year supervisory or managerial probationary period unless this requirement has been met previously.
Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
Must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.
Must type at least 40 words per minute based on a 5 minute sample with three or fewer errors. (A typing test may later be required.)
GS-9: At least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-8 level in Federal service.
Specialized experience: Planning work schedules; distributing work and expeditious handling priority work; recommending administrative and technical procedures and reviewing for accuracy the work of subordinates with respect to various complex legal clerical documents, such as, indictments, criminal complaints, warrants, applications, affidavits, subpoenas and recovery of restitution, fines, and penalties.

Nice To Haves

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Responsibilities

Provide administrative and technical supervision to support staff who provide technical and legal assistant services to one or more Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs).
Develop and train all new legal assistants and clerical staff assigned.
Revise work schedules related to recovery of restitution, fines, penalties to meet changes in workload considering factors such as constantly changing deadlines, case priority, availability of staff, and processing time requirements.
Create and provide verbal and/or written instructional guidelines for the performance of tasks in the division.
Advise employees of their performance requirements of their position, complete mid year progress review reports, and prepare annual performance evaluations.
Participate in hiring applicants, recommend promotions, reassignments, awards, step increases, disciplinary actions and resolve grievances that can be resolved at the supervisory level.
Provide a variety of direct legal support assistance service to AUSA staff to include preparing and processing a variety of complex legal clerical work related to asset forfeiture.
Produce a variety of written documents and materials using a wide range of office software applications.
Acts as document manager for floor, maintaining storage room(s) and file cabinets.
Answer technical questions.
Review, accepts, amends or rejects work for which quality standards may not yet have been established.
Oversees attendance and leave, approves sick leave and coordinates annual leave and vacation schedules.
Advises disciplinary, performance or leave abuse problems to the Chief of Criminal Division.
Makes changes in the assignment of personnel and/or functions to improve productivity in debt collection and related activities.