Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist
- Eastern District of Arkansas
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Full Time
Supervisory Legal Administrive Specialist
Department of Justice
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys
United Stes Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Summary
For more informion on the Department of Justice and the United Stes Attorneys' Offices, .
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Summary
For more informion on the Department of Justice and the United Stes Attorneys' Offices, .
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Overview
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Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
05/21/2026 to 06/04/2026
Salary
$89,508 - $116,362 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 12
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Little Rock, AR
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
Yesas determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
0901 General Legal And Kindred Administrion
Supervisory stus
Yes
Security clearance
Top Secret
Drug test
Yes
Position sensitivity and risk
Special-Sensitive (SS)/High Risk
Trust determinion process
Suitability/Fitness
Credentialing
Nional security
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
No
Announcement number
26-ARE-12965475-IMP
Control number
870128800
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
Current Federal employees in permanent competitive service positions (stus candides) of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Merit Promotion/Internal Employees Only.
Duties
Help
If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team th is responsible for handling some of the most complex and difficult cases in the United Stes Attorney's office (USAO) because they require organizing, tracking, and analyzing thousands of items of evidence, millions of da elements, or involve untried or especially novel computer or digital imaging applicions.
Typical work assignments will include:
Responsible for the overall supervision, coordinion, and casework assignment for criminal/civil support staff. Ensuring adeque coverage during pre-trial, trial, and post-trial stages.
Providing technical advice to litigion teams on legal automion requirements and systems capabilities to facilite litigion decisions, trial preparion and trial presention.
Assisting and/or training torneys and legal support staff in organizing voluminous case informion for efficient retrieval through automed means such as scanning, indexing, and controlling of documents into a dabase.
Ensuring proper hardware/software is in place for courtroom and grand jury sessions.
Utilizing a variety of automed legal research tools as well as public informion dabases and other automed resources to research case or program-specific legal mters and participing in assigned areas of criminal and civil proceedings, e.g., electronic discovery.
Preparing and maintaining a variety of trial-reled documents, e.g., discovery letters, exhibit lists, jury instructions, voir dire, motions in limine, trial subpoenas, by applying a thorough knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and applicion of practical litigive experience.
Providing advice to torneys and other legal support staff on the most effective and efficient ways to prepare, present and maintain a variety of administrive legal documents, e.g., discovery letters, exhibit lists, jury instructions and subpoenas.
Reviewing, assessing, and developing local litigion policies and procedures to ensure they are consistent with current policies and objectives.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
You must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional.
Initial appointment is conditioned upon a sisfactory pre-employment adjudicion. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudicion of a background investigion.
You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probionary period.
If selected, you subject to the sisfactory completion of a one year supervisory or managerial probionary period unless this requirement has been met previously.
Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing de of this announcement.
You must meet all qualificion and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing de of this announcement and before placement in the position.
Qualificions
GS-12: To be eligible the GS-12 level, you must have least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service as defined below.
Specialized experience is defined as experience performing the following types of duties: assisting torneys in preparing for voluminous litigion support assignments (i.e., organizing case informion, scanning and indexing documents, etc.); conducting research, analysis and evaluion of da in response to case-specific legal mters; composing legal briefs, summaries of analyses and decisions, and trial preparion; and mentoring and/or providing training to support legal staff.
Additional informion
Payment of relocion expenses will not be authorize.
The Department of Justice offers a comprehensive benefits package th includes, in part, paid vacion; sick leave; holidays; telework; life insurance; health benefits; and participion in the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Selective Service: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify th you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. See .
Reasonable Accommodion Stement: Federal Agencies must provide reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities, where approprie. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process should contact the hiring agency directly. Determinions on requests for reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis.
EEO Stement/Policy: The United Stes government does not discrimine in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, nional origin, political affiliion, sexual oriention, marital stus, disability, genetic informion, age, membership in an employee organizion, retaliion, parental stus, military service or other non-merit factor. More informion can be found here:
Political Appointees (Current or Former): The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the HR Office. Failure to disclose this informion could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
Benefits
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Your complete applicion package (resume/supporting documention, online questionnaire, and USA Hire Competency Based Assessment) used to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed on this announcement. If you are basically qualified for this job, your resume and supporting documention compared to your responses on the online questionnaire. If you re yourself higher than is supported by your applicion merials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this job. If you are found to be among the top candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion.
You red on the following Competencies (see The OPM Website for definitions):
Accountability, Conflict Management, Customer Service, Developing Others, Flexibility, Interpersonal Skills, Problem Solving, and Stregic Thinking.
To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the applicion and applicion questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on the online assessment may also result in your removal from considerion.
Benefits
Help
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
Required documents
Required Documents
Help
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package, which includes:
- Required: Your responses to the Online Occupional Questionnaire (This is completed automically during the apply online process).
- Required: Your resume cannot exceed two pages - you deemed ineligible and receive no further considerion if your resume exceeds two pages - see USAJOBS for formting requirements . Include relevant employment history as outlined below for each job:
Official position title (if Federal, include series/grade),
Employer name and contact informion,
Start and end des (for full considerion you must include month, day, and year),
Indice full-time or number of hours worked per week if part-time, and
A list of duties performed and accomplishments.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- Required if you are a current or former Federal employee: a recent copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing title, series, grade, and full performance level (FPL); AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal. Please note your SF-50 must include your FPL in the remark section (e.g., appointment, reassignment, promotion actions), pay adjustments and awards do not include this informion so they are not acceptable.
- Required, if applicable: CTAP/ICTAP documention (a copy of a separion notice or other proof of eligibility for priority selection; a copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing current position, grade, promotion potential, and duty locion; AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal.
- If you are requesting a reasonable accommodion to the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you must submit documention to support your request, including the Reasonable Accommodion Request Form found :
- Current or Former Political Appointees : The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the Human Resources Office by providing a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a stement th provides the following informion regarding your most recent political appointment:
Position title;
Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee);
Agency; and
Beginning and ending des of appointment.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include the initial online assessment and submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 06/04/2026 the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows:
1. To begin the applicion process, click the Apply Online button.
2. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention.
3. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59PM (ET) on 06/04/2026.
4. After submitting an online applicion, you notified whether or not you are required to take additional online assessments through the USA Hire Competency Based Assessment system. This message delivered to you both on screen and via email notificion.
5. If you are asked to take the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you presented with a unique URL to access the USA Hire system. Access to USA Hire is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Be sure to review all instructions prior to beginning your USA Hire Assessments.
Click here for Computer System Requirements
( )
6. Note, set aside least 3 hours to take these assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue a ler time, you can re-use the URL sent to you via email and also found on the Additional Applicion Informion page th can be loced in the applicion record in your USAJOBS account.
To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, please click the following link: To upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account ( ) . There you will find a record of your applicion, the applicion stus, and an option to Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed.
To verify the stus of your applicion both during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account: . All of your applicions will appear on the Welcome page. The applicion record in your USAJOBS account provides an Additional Applicion Informion page th provides informion regarding the documention you submitted and any correspondence we have sent reled to this applicion. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, :
Reasonable Accommodion Requests : If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended, th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodion in your online applicion. Requests for Reasonable Accommodions for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for Reasonable Accommodion must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodions are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodion, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here:
Agency contact informion
JOLENE JOHNSTON
Phone
...
...
Address
Eastern District of Arkansas
425 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201
US
Next steps
Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended.
Your assessment results kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package, which includes:
- Required: Your responses to the Online Occupional Questionnaire (This is completed automically during the apply online process).
- Required: Your resume cannot exceed two pages - you deemed ineligible and receive no further considerion if your resume exceeds two pages - see USAJOBS for formting requirements . Include relevant employment history as outlined below for each job:
Official position title (if Federal, include series/grade),
Employer name and contact informion,
Start and end des (for full considerion you must include month, day, and year),
Indice full-time or number of hours worked per week if part-time, and
A list of duties performed and accomplishments.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- Required if you are a current or former Federal employee: a recent copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing title, series, grade, and full performance level (FPL); AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal. Please note your SF-50 must include your FPL in the remark section (e.g., appointment, reassignment, promotion actions), pay adjustments and awards do not include this informion so they are not acceptable.
- Required, if applicable: CTAP/ICTAP documention (a copy of a separion notice or other proof of eligibility for priority selection; a copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing current position, grade, promotion potential, and duty locion; AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal.
- If you are requesting a reasonable accommodion to the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you must submit documention to support your request, including the Reasonable Accommodion Request Form found :
- Current or Former Political Appointees : The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the Human Resources Office by providing a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a stement th provides the following informion regarding your most recent political appointment:
Position title;
Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee);
Agency; and
Beginning and ending des of appointment.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include the initial online assessment and submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 06/04/2026 the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows:
1. To begin the applicion process, click the Apply Online button.
2. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention.
3. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59PM (ET) on 06/04/2026.
4. After submitting an online applicion, you notified whether or not you are required to take additional online assessments through the USA Hire Competency Based Assessment system. This message delivered to you both on screen and via email notificion.
5. If you are asked to take the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you presented with a unique URL to access the USA Hire system. Access to USA Hire is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Be sure to review all instructions prior to beginning your USA Hire Assessments.
Click here for Computer System Requirements
( )
6. Note, set aside least 3 hours to take these assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue a ler time, you can re-use the URL sent to you via email and also found on the Additional Applicion Informion page th can be loced in the applicion record in your USAJOBS account.
To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, please click the following link: To upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account ( ) . There you will find a record of your applicion, the applicion stus, and an option to Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed.
To verify the stus of your applicion both during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account: . All of your applicions will appear on the Welcome page. The applicion record in your USAJOBS account provides an Additional Applicion Informion page th provides informion regarding the documention you submitted and any correspondence we have sent reled to this applicion. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, :
Reasonable Accommodion Requests : If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended, th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodion in your online applicion. Requests for Reasonable Accommodions for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for Reasonable Accommodion must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodions are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodion, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here:
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Agency contact informion
JOLENE JOHNSTON
Phone
...
...
Address
Eastern District of Arkansas
425 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201
US
Next steps
Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended.
Your assessment results kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments.
Expand Hide next steps
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/21/2026 to 06/04/2026 Salary $89,508 - $116,362 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Little Rock, AR Remote job No Telework eligible Yesas determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-ARE-12965475-IMP Control number 870128800
Department of Justice
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys and the Office of the U.S. Attorneys
United Stes Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Summary
For more informion on the Department of Justice and the United Stes Attorneys' Offices, .
Learn more about this agency
Summary
For more informion on the Department of Justice and the United Stes Attorneys' Offices, .
Learn more about this agency
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
05/21/2026 to 06/04/2026
Salary
$89,508 - $116,362 per year
Pay scale & grade
GS 12
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Little Rock, AR
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
Yesas determined by the agency policy.
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
0901 General Legal And Kindred Administrion
Supervisory stus
Yes
Security clearance
Top Secret
Drug test
Yes
Position sensitivity and risk
Special-Sensitive (SS)/High Risk
Trust determinion process
Suitability/Fitness
Credentialing
Nional security
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
No
Announcement number
26-ARE-12965475-IMP
Control number
870128800
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
Current Federal employees in permanent competitive service positions (stus candides) of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Merit Promotion/Internal Employees Only.
Duties
Help
If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team th is responsible for handling some of the most complex and difficult cases in the United Stes Attorney's office (USAO) because they require organizing, tracking, and analyzing thousands of items of evidence, millions of da elements, or involve untried or especially novel computer or digital imaging applicions.
Typical work assignments will include:
Responsible for the overall supervision, coordinion, and casework assignment for criminal/civil support staff. Ensuring adeque coverage during pre-trial, trial, and post-trial stages.
Providing technical advice to litigion teams on legal automion requirements and systems capabilities to facilite litigion decisions, trial preparion and trial presention.
Assisting and/or training torneys and legal support staff in organizing voluminous case informion for efficient retrieval through automed means such as scanning, indexing, and controlling of documents into a dabase.
Ensuring proper hardware/software is in place for courtroom and grand jury sessions.
Utilizing a variety of automed legal research tools as well as public informion dabases and other automed resources to research case or program-specific legal mters and participing in assigned areas of criminal and civil proceedings, e.g., electronic discovery.
Preparing and maintaining a variety of trial-reled documents, e.g., discovery letters, exhibit lists, jury instructions, voir dire, motions in limine, trial subpoenas, by applying a thorough knowledge of the Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and applicion of practical litigive experience.
Providing advice to torneys and other legal support staff on the most effective and efficient ways to prepare, present and maintain a variety of administrive legal documents, e.g., discovery letters, exhibit lists, jury instructions and subpoenas.
Reviewing, assessing, and developing local litigion policies and procedures to ensure they are consistent with current policies and objectives.
Requirements
Help
Conditions of employment
You must be a U.S. Citizen or Nional.
Initial appointment is conditioned upon a sisfactory pre-employment adjudicion. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudicion of a background investigion.
You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probionary period.
If selected, you subject to the sisfactory completion of a one year supervisory or managerial probionary period unless this requirement has been met previously.
Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing de of this announcement.
You must meet all qualificion and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing de of this announcement and before placement in the position.
Qualificions
GS-12: To be eligible the GS-12 level, you must have least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service as defined below.
Specialized experience is defined as experience performing the following types of duties: assisting torneys in preparing for voluminous litigion support assignments (i.e., organizing case informion, scanning and indexing documents, etc.); conducting research, analysis and evaluion of da in response to case-specific legal mters; composing legal briefs, summaries of analyses and decisions, and trial preparion; and mentoring and/or providing training to support legal staff.
Additional informion
Payment of relocion expenses will not be authorize.
The Department of Justice offers a comprehensive benefits package th includes, in part, paid vacion; sick leave; holidays; telework; life insurance; health benefits; and participion in the Federal Employees Retirement System.
Selective Service: If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify th you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law. See .
Reasonable Accommodion Stement: Federal Agencies must provide reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities, where approprie. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process should contact the hiring agency directly. Determinions on requests for reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis.
EEO Stement/Policy: The United Stes government does not discrimine in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, nional origin, political affiliion, sexual oriention, marital stus, disability, genetic informion, age, membership in an employee organizion, retaliion, parental stus, military service or other non-merit factor. More informion can be found here:
Political Appointees (Current or Former): The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non-Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the HR Office. Failure to disclose this informion could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service.
Expand Hide additional informion
Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
Benefits
Help
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Your complete applicion package (resume/supporting documention, online questionnaire, and USA Hire Competency Based Assessment) used to determine whether you meet the job qualificions listed on this announcement. If you are basically qualified for this job, your resume and supporting documention compared to your responses on the online questionnaire. If you re yourself higher than is supported by your applicion merials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this job. If you are found to be among the top candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion.
You red on the following Competencies (see The OPM Website for definitions):
Accountability, Conflict Management, Customer Service, Developing Others, Flexibility, Interpersonal Skills, Problem Solving, and Stregic Thinking.
To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the applicion and applicion questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
Oversting your qualificions and/or experience in your applicion merials or applicion questionnaire may result in your removal from considerion. Cheing on the online assessment may also result in your removal from considerion.
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To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package, which includes:
- Required: Your responses to the Online Occupional Questionnaire (This is completed automically during the apply online process).
- Required: Your resume cannot exceed two pages - you deemed ineligible and receive no further considerion if your resume exceeds two pages - see USAJOBS for formting requirements . Include relevant employment history as outlined below for each job:
Official position title (if Federal, include series/grade),
Employer name and contact informion,
Start and end des (for full considerion you must include month, day, and year),
Indice full-time or number of hours worked per week if part-time, and
A list of duties performed and accomplishments.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- Required if you are a current or former Federal employee: a recent copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing title, series, grade, and full performance level (FPL); AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal. Please note your SF-50 must include your FPL in the remark section (e.g., appointment, reassignment, promotion actions), pay adjustments and awards do not include this informion so they are not acceptable.
- Required, if applicable: CTAP/ICTAP documention (a copy of a separion notice or other proof of eligibility for priority selection; a copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing current position, grade, promotion potential, and duty locion; AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal.
- If you are requesting a reasonable accommodion to the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you must submit documention to support your request, including the Reasonable Accommodion Request Form found :
- Current or Former Political Appointees : The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the Human Resources Office by providing a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a stement th provides the following informion regarding your most recent political appointment:
Position title;
Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee);
Agency; and
Beginning and ending des of appointment.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
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Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include the initial online assessment and submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 06/04/2026 the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows:
1. To begin the applicion process, click the Apply Online button.
2. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention.
3. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59PM (ET) on 06/04/2026.
4. After submitting an online applicion, you notified whether or not you are required to take additional online assessments through the USA Hire Competency Based Assessment system. This message delivered to you both on screen and via email notificion.
5. If you are asked to take the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you presented with a unique URL to access the USA Hire system. Access to USA Hire is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Be sure to review all instructions prior to beginning your USA Hire Assessments.
Click here for Computer System Requirements
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6. Note, set aside least 3 hours to take these assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue a ler time, you can re-use the URL sent to you via email and also found on the Additional Applicion Informion page th can be loced in the applicion record in your USAJOBS account.
To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, please click the following link: To upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account ( ) . There you will find a record of your applicion, the applicion stus, and an option to Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed.
To verify the stus of your applicion both during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account: . All of your applicions will appear on the Welcome page. The applicion record in your USAJOBS account provides an Additional Applicion Informion page th provides informion regarding the documention you submitted and any correspondence we have sent reled to this applicion. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, :
Reasonable Accommodion Requests : If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended, th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodion in your online applicion. Requests for Reasonable Accommodions for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for Reasonable Accommodion must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodions are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodion, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here:
Agency contact informion
JOLENE JOHNSTON
Phone
...
...
Address
Eastern District of Arkansas
425 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201
US
Next steps
Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended.
Your assessment results kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package, which includes:
- Required: Your responses to the Online Occupional Questionnaire (This is completed automically during the apply online process).
- Required: Your resume cannot exceed two pages - you deemed ineligible and receive no further considerion if your resume exceeds two pages - see USAJOBS for formting requirements . Include relevant employment history as outlined below for each job:
Official position title (if Federal, include series/grade),
Employer name and contact informion,
Start and end des (for full considerion you must include month, day, and year),
Indice full-time or number of hours worked per week if part-time, and
A list of duties performed and accomplishments.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
- Required if you are a current or former Federal employee: a recent copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing title, series, grade, and full performance level (FPL); AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal. Please note your SF-50 must include your FPL in the remark section (e.g., appointment, reassignment, promotion actions), pay adjustments and awards do not include this informion so they are not acceptable.
- Required, if applicable: CTAP/ICTAP documention (a copy of a separion notice or other proof of eligibility for priority selection; a copy of an SF-50, Notificion of Personnel Action, showing current position, grade, promotion potential, and duty locion; AND a copy of your most recent performance appraisal.
- If you are requesting a reasonable accommodion to the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you must submit documention to support your request, including the Reasonable Accommodion Request Form found :
- Current or Former Political Appointees : The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this informion to the Human Resources Office by providing a copy of your applicable SF-50, along with a stement th provides the following informion regarding your most recent political appointment:
Position title;
Type of appointment (Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES, or Presidential Appointee);
Agency; and
Beginning and ending des of appointment.
If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements:
Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion .
Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring.
How to Apply
Help
Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an applicion. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online applicion, to include the initial online assessment and submission of the required documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 06/04/2026 the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. The applicion process is as follows:
1. To begin the applicion process, click the Apply Online button.
2. Answer the questions presented in the applicion and tach all necessary supporting documention.
3. Click the Submit Applicion button prior to 11:59PM (ET) on 06/04/2026.
4. After submitting an online applicion, you notified whether or not you are required to take additional online assessments through the USA Hire Competency Based Assessment system. This message delivered to you both on screen and via email notificion.
5. If you are asked to take the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you presented with a unique URL to access the USA Hire system. Access to USA Hire is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Be sure to review all instructions prior to beginning your USA Hire Assessments.
Click here for Computer System Requirements
( )
6. Note, set aside least 3 hours to take these assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue a ler time, you can re-use the URL sent to you via email and also found on the Additional Applicion Informion page th can be loced in the applicion record in your USAJOBS account.
To preview the Assessment Questionnaire, please click the following link: To upde your applicion, including supporting documention, any time during the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account ( ) . There you will find a record of your applicion, the applicion stus, and an option to Edit my applicion . This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed.
To verify the stus of your applicion both during and after the announcement open period, log into your USAJOBS account: . All of your applicions will appear on the Welcome page. The applicion record in your USAJOBS account provides an Additional Applicion Informion page th provides informion regarding the documention you submitted and any correspondence we have sent reled to this applicion. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, :
Reasonable Accommodion Requests : If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended, th would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you granted the opportunity to request a reasonable accommodion in your online applicion. Requests for Reasonable Accommodions for the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments and approprie supporting documention for Reasonable Accommodion must be received prior to starting the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. Decisions on requests for Reasonable Accommodions are made on a case-by-case basis. If you meet the minimum qualificions of the position, after notificion of the adjudicion of your request, you will receive an email invition to complete the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments. You must complete all assessments within 48 hours of receiving the URL to access the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, if you received the link after the close of the announcement. To determine if you need a Reasonable Accommodion, please review the Procedures for Requesting a Reasonable Accommodion for Online Assessments here:
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Agency contact informion
JOLENE JOHNSTON
Phone
...
...
Address
Eastern District of Arkansas
425 West Capitol Avenue
Little Rock, AR 72201
US
Next steps
Based on your applicion and your responses to the applicion questionnaire, you may be presented with instructions on how to access the USA Hire system to complete the online assessments. The online assessments must be completed within 48 hours following the close of this announcement. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodion for the assessment should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilition Act of 1973 as amended.
Your assessment results kept on record for one year and used toward future positions for which you might apply th require the same assessments.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 05/21/2026 to 06/04/2026 Salary $89,508 - $116,362 per year Pay scale & grade GS 12 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Little Rock, AR Remote job No Telework eligible Yesas determined by the agency policy. Travel Required Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number 26-ARE-12965475-IMP Control number 870128800
Job ID: 522283117
Originally Posted on: 5/23/2026
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