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Assistant Section Chief - Environmental Enforcement Section
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About the Role
The Environmental Enforcement Section seeks an experienced attorney to serve as an Assistant Section Chief who will supervise one of five litigating groups. Each litigating group consists of a team of attorneys and professional staff charged with pursuing a wide variety of district court cases: pollution control, cost recovery, and natural resource damage claims chief among them.
What You'll Do
- →Assistant Section Chiefs have direct supervisory responsibility for all aspects of work in their respective groups.
- →This supervision involves, among other things: Ensuring appropriate staffing on each matter (including appropriate professional staff to handle administrative matters and case matters).
- →Building team effectiveness and morale.
- →Providing strategy and other guidance as needed.
- →Ensuring compliance with all relevant DOJ guidance and policies.
- →Reviewing briefs, memoranda, and other written work product for substantive accuracy and for consistency with positions in other litigation.
- →Coordinating with counterparts at client agencies and with other DOJ and ENRD components; briefing agency and DOJ leadership as necessary.
- →Developing and recommending settlement positions to decisionmakers.
- →Preparing attorneys for trial.
- →The ideal candidate will have: Significant federal litigation experience.
- →Demonstrated interest and successful experiences in: leading people, building coalitions, and solving a wide range of problems.
- →Experience and proven competence in courtroom advocacy, ideally including evidence-heavy work.
- →Demonstrated potential to inspire those supervised, both to deliver the best possible work and to find satisfaction in their work life and career development.
- →Effective handling of projects (cases or other work) that involved the contributions of multiple people and that were defined in part by challenging goals or circumstances.
Requirements
- ✓All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓For a list of schools that meet this criteria, see www.ed.gov.
- ✓Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
- ✓It is your responsibility to timely provide such evidence by submitting proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency with your application materials.
- ✓More information may be found at https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
- ✓All documentation must be in English or include an English translation. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 119191b1-c5ed-424d-8bed-570031e26e80
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