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Attorney-Adviser
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 49 days ago
About the Role
Serves as an Attorney-Adviser in the Regulations Division (AGC-200), providing advice and legal counsel for a variety of regulatory matters.
What You'll Do
- →Serves as an individual contributor, team member, or project leader for routine assignments.
- →Applies considerable experience and advanced professional legal knowledge to assignments.
- →Performs most assignments independently.
- →Receives direction from a manager or more experienced attorney when exceptionally difficult issues are encountered.
- →Work is vital to the legal programs of the regulations organization and applicable mission areas.
- →Conducts legal review of critical safety rules as a part of rulemaking projects pertaining to FAA regulations that involve aircraft operations, air traffic, and aircraft, airman, and airworthiness certification, commercial space and similar regulatory matters.
- →Supports FAA's implementation of various Executive Orders, such as Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation, EO 14192; Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry, EO 14335; Leading the World in Supersonic Flight, EO 14304, etc.
- →Such matters involve: operations restrictions and authorizations codified in regulations, as well as certification procedures for operators and airports; registration of aircraft; fees associated with registration and overflights in the National Airspace System (NAS); and records associated with individuals who hold FAA-issued certificates.
- →These matters might also involve safety rules related to the certification and maintenance of aircraft, airman and air traffic, including: type certification; supplemental type certification; production certification; parts and manufacturing approvals; airworthiness certification; and the certification of maintenance organizations and schools.
- →In addition, legal reviews might consist of reviewing matters related to other areas of FAA regulations.
- →These matters might also involve review of notices of proposed rulemaking and final rules related to commercial space including those pertaining to licensing, permitting, payload review, environmental requirements, and financial responsibility requirements and reciprocal waivers of claims.
- →Conducts legal review of agency guidance and similar advisory materials, as well as documents involving the statutory interpretation of the scope of FAA's authority.
- →Supports program offices through legal review of exemptions from aviation regulations and waivers of the applicability of operating regulations, to either grant or deny the requests.
- →Provides technical assistance and responds to requests from the regulated community for interpretation of FAA regulations.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications.
- ✓If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment.
- ✓You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).
- ✓Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.
- ✓Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.
- ✓Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university.
- ✓A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.
- ✓It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence at the time of application.
- ✓For additional information, visit:http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html Applicants who are not currently in the 905 occupational series (Attorney) in the Federal Government and fail to provide a copy of an unofficial or official transcript will not receive further consideration for this vacancy.
- ✓Upon selection, if not currently employed in the 905 occupational series (Attorney), you will be required to submit an official transcript prior to appointment.
- ✓If you do not have an official transcript (original, with the raised seal), you should contact your school immediately to request it.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 538a0927-2276-4847-8896-c2c7d478e767
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