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Attorney Advisor
Farm Credit Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Attorney Advisor provides legal services in matters of complexity and importance requiring very strong research and communication skills on a range of statutory, regulatory and legislative issues, and advises on how these issues affect both FCA's compliance with applicable laws and FCA's regulation and supervision of the Farm Credit System.
What You'll Do
- →OGC serves as the principal legal advisor to the Agency, providing comprehensive legal guidance to the FCA Chairman, FCA Board, and Agency staff on matters affecting FCA's programs, operations, and administration.
- →The incumbent Attorney Advisor will perform the following duties: Conducts and manages, with a significant degree of independence, broad-ranging legal research projects on unique and specialized legal questions that are unusually complex, difficult, and of the highest importance to achieving the mission of the Agency.
- →Analyzes and synthesizes statutes, regulations, precedential decisions, and other materials.
- →Produces clear, authoritative, and comprehensive written materials, such as legal memoranda and opinions, litigation and enforcement documents, and regulatory documents.
- →Demonstrates and maintains in-depth knowledge of the Farm Credit System (System) and its institutions, the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended, and other laws directly impacting the System, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act and other laws governing the conduct of FCA as an Executive Branch agency.
- →Communicates effectively with and provides counsel to other Agency staff, including Board Members, on the legal significance of existing and proposed laws, regulations, policies, and programs, and addressing issues of the highest degree of legal difficulty and importance.
Requirements
- ✓ARE YOU USING YOUR EDUCATION TO QUALIFY?
- ✓You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
- ✓Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course.
- ✓All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.
- ✓PASS/FAIL COURSES: If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.
- ✓GRADUATE EDUCATION: One academic year of graduate education is the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study.
- ✓Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis.
- ✓If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.
- ✓For further information, visit: College Accreditation | U.S.
- ✓Department of Education
Personality Fit
Job ID: 377ee2a6-88cb-48bd-a589-9335f8bc2633
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