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General Attorney (Civil Rights), GS-0905-11/12/13 FPL GS-13 (Open Continuous)
Department of Education Headquarters · Posted 34 days ago
About the Role
This position is located in a regional civil rights office Washington, DC, Denver, CO, Seattle, WA, Atlanta, GA, Kansas City, MO. The office operates under the jurisdiction of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Acts of 1975, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act.
What You'll Do
- →APPLICATION LIMIT: This is an open continuous announcement with cutoff dates.
- →Applications will be referred based on receipt of application and established cutoff dates as follows: 1st cutoff date: 08/26/2026 2nd cutoff date: 09/09/2026 3rd cutoff date: 09/23/2026 Last cutoff date: 09/28/2026 This is an Excepted Service position.
- →The job will be filled by alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service.
- →Applicants selected for an excepted service position are subject to a one-year trial period.
- →Join our Team!
- →Department of Education (ED) is looking for the best and brightest to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation.
- →As a General Attorney (Civil Right), GS-0905-13, you will be responsible for: Ensuring that complaints and proactive enforcement activities are processed in accordance with the Assistant Secretary's directives, regulations, policies, case law and conform to established case-processing procedures.
- →Ensures that appropriate remedies are obtained.
- →Provides technical assistance to stakeholders As a General Attorney (Civil Right), GS-0905-12, you will be responsible for: Making civil rights compliance determinations and ensuring that complaints and proactive enforcement activities are processed in accordance with the Assistant Secretary's directives, regulations, policies, case law and conform to established case-processing procedures.
- →Ensures that appropriate remedies are obtained.
- →Participating in all aspects of complaint and proactive enforcement investigations including on-site investigations.
- →Duties include: evaluating complaints; planning investigations; determining legal issues; determining investigation and legal strategy; conducting legal research; collecting/analyzing/interpreting investigation data/information and conducting necessary interviews; implementing approaches to organizing and conducting evaluation, planning, investigation, resolution and/or enforcement activities.
- →Drafting letters (e.g., dismissal letters, notification letters, data requests, letters of finding) and other documents (e.g., statements of the case, legal memoranda, resolution agreements).
Requirements
- ✓Condition of Employment: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a probationary period or trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: - your performance and conduct; - the needs and interests of the agency; - whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and - whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period OR trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Key Requirements: Must be a US Citizen.
- ✓Males 18 and over must be registered with the Selective Service.
- ✓Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
- ✓Relocation expenses will not be paid.
- ✓You may be subject to serve a one-year trial period.
- ✓You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
- ✓Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
- ✓Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills, and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
- ✓We will consider all qualifying experience, including any volunteer experience.
- ✓You may meet the minimum qualification of this position by meeting the following education options.
- ✓Second professional law degree (LL.M.) which requires one full year of graduate study; OR 2.
Benefits
- ★As an ED employee, you will also benefit from our family-friendly work environment.
- ★As part of our commitment to maintain a work life balance, we offer excused leave for Parent/Teacher Conferences (3 hours); excused leave for annual health screenings (4 hours); and matching leave for community volunteer service.
- ★Other flexibilities that may be available to you include alternative work schedules.
- ★You may be eligible to receive a recruitment incentive for this position.
- ★To receive this incentive payment, you will be required to sign a service agreement obligating you to remain with the U.S.
- ★Department of Education for a specified period as agreed upon.
- ★You may be eligible to receive a relocation incentive for this position.
- ★To receive this incentive payment, you will be required to sign a service agreement obligating you to remain with the U.S.
- ★Department of Education for a specified period as agreed upon.
- ★You may be eligible to participate in the Student Loan Repayment Program as a recruitment incentive for this position.
Personality Fit
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