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Posted: Fri Apr 16th, 2010 04:07 am | 1st Post |
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ASSISTANT UNITED STATES ATTORNEY UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Northern District of West Virginia
NDWV-10-01
About the Office: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia has jurisdiction and responsibility in a broad range of areas, all of which involve representing the legal interests of the federal government, primarily in United States District Court. The Northern District of West Virginia consists of 32 counties in northern, central , and eastern West Virginia and employs approximately 50 employees in four office locations, Wheeling (HQ), Clarksburg, Elkins, and Martinsburg.
Responsibilities and Opportunity Offered: The Northern District of West Virginia is accepting applications for a Assistant United States Attorney (term appointment for approximately 14 months) for the Clarksburg branch office. This is a challenging position with a heavy criminal caseload primarily involving the investigation and prosecution of a wide range of criminal violations occurring at the United States Penitentiary at Hazelton, West Virginia, as well as offenses committed at other federal correctional institutions within the district.
Qualifications: Required qualifications: Applicants must possess a J.D. degree, be an active member of the West Virginia bar, and have at least 3 to 5 years post-J.D. experience in the legal field.
Preferred qualifications: Applicants should demonstrate quick analytical ability and the facility to accurately and precisely articulate the critical issues in a case. Applicants must demonstrate superior oral and writing skills, strong research and interpersonal skills, and good judgment. Applicants must possess excellent communications and courtroom skills and exhibit the ability to work in a supportive and professional manner with other attorneys, support staff, and client agencies. Applicants must have a demonstrated capacity to function, with minimal guidance, in a highly demanding environment. Applicants should possess excellent computer skills which should include experience with automated research on the Internet, e-mail, and various word-processing systems. Applicants must have criminal attorney experience.
Travel: Occasional to frequent travel may be required, primarily within the district.
Salary Information: Assistant United States Attorneys' pay is administratively determined based, in part, on the number of years of professional attorney experience. The range of basic pay is $44,581 to $117,994 per year.
Location: The position to be filled will be located in the Clarksburg branch office.
The City of Clarksburg is tucked away in the hills of north central West Virginia, and is the County Seat for Harrison County. Clarksburg is located at the intersection of two heavily traveled highways and the second busiest interchanges in the state, Interstate 79 and U.S. Route 50. Clarksburg enjoys the amenities of the largest city in the region with the advantages of a small hometown community. A rich mix of retail, industry, and government services, with a thriving business community exist, along with an abundance of recreational facilities and one of the best preserved historic down towns in the state.
Relocation Expenses: Relocation expenses will not be authorized.
Application Process and Deadline Date: Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and a resume to: Betsy C. Jividen, Acting United States Attorney, P. O. Box 591, Wheeling, WV 26003-0011. No telephone calls please. Applications must be received by Friday, April 23, 2010.
Internet Sites: This and other attorney vacancy announcements can be found at: http://www.justice.gov/oarm/attvacancies.html
Department Policies: Assistant United States Attorneys generally must reside in the district to which he or she is appointed. See 28 U.S.C. § 545 for district-specific information.
All initial attorney appointments to the Department of Justice are made on a time-limited (temporary) basis. Temporary appointments may, or may not, be extended or made permanent without further competition.
The U.S. Department of Justice is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Except where otherwise provided by law, there will be no discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, color, race, religion, national origin, politics, marital status, disability, age, status as a parent, membership or nonmembership in an employee organization, or personal favoritism. The Department of Justice welcomes and encourages applications from persons with physical and mental disabilities. The Department is firmly committed to satisfying its affirmative obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to ensure that persons with disabilities have every opportunity to be hired and advanced on the basis of merit within the Department of Justice. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
It is the policy of the Department to achieve a drug-free workplace and persons selected for employment will be required to pass a drug test which screens for illegal drug use prior to final appointment. Employment is also contingent upon the completion and satisfactory adjudication of a background investigation. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for employment with the Executive Office for Immigration Review and the United States Attorneys’ Offices. Unless otherwise indicated in a particular job advertisement, non-U.S. citizens may apply for employment with other organizations, but should be advised that appointments of non-U.S. citizens are extremely rare; such appointments would be possible only if necessary to accomplish the Department's mission and would be subject to strict security requirements. Applicants who hold dual citizenship in the U.S. and another country will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
There is no formal rating system for applying veterans’ preference to attorney appointments in the excepted service; however, the Department of Justice considers veterans’ preference eligibility as a positive factor in attorney hiring. Applicants eligible for veterans’ preference must include that information in their cover letter or resume and attach supporting documentation (e.g., the DD 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty and other supporting documentation) to their submissions. Although the “point” system is not used, per se, applicants eligible to claim 10-point preference must submit Standard Form (SF) 15, Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference, and submit the supporting documentation required for the specific type of preference claimed (visit the OPM website, http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/SF15.pdf for a copy of SF 15, which lists the types of 10point preferences and the required supporting documents). Applicants should note that SF 15 requires supporting documentation associated with service-connected disabilities or receipt of nonservice-connected disability pensions to be dated 1991 or later except in the case of service members submitting official statements or retirement orders from a branch of the Armed Forces showing that his or her retirement was due to a permanent service-connected disability or that he/she was transferred to the permanent disability retired list (the statement or retirement orders must indicate that the disability is 10% or more).
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