Attorney-Adviser (International)

Summary

About the Position: This position is located at the Eastern European Defense Initiative (EDI), USA-Europe, Office of the Commanding General, Office of the Judge Advocate (OJA), Wiesbaden, Germany.

If you are currently serving in a permanent, competitive service appointment in the Federal service, and are selected for this position, the appointment will remove you from the competitive service while you occupy this position.

Duties

• Senior counsel for intelligence law operations and provides expert, authoritative legal advice on intelligence and counterintelligence (CI) activities, Info Ops, CYBER operations, and intelligence oversight.
• Evaluates complex factual issues related to every aspect of USAREUR operations for legal sufficiency to support the command’s desired outcome.
• Conducts comprehensive legal reviews of draft regulations, policy directives and operational concepts and activities.
• Evaluates International Law and treaties, European Law and newly enacted European statutes, proposed Federal legislation, Federal and DoD regulations, and policy statements governing intelligence, CI, IO and CYBER operations.
• Advises all elements of the command on impacts to operational activities.
• Advises the USAREUR Commander, staff and Major Subordinate Commands (MSCs) on responses to Congressional inquiries.
• Provides legal advice to the USARUER Central Personnel Security Clearance Facility related to security clearance adjudication, policy and procedures.
• Advises on USAREUR support of intelligence activities and operations, including CI, HUMINT, SIGINT and OSINT mission support, authority review and analysis.
• Provides legal advice and prepares legal opinions relating to the organization, powers, functions operations and the delegation of those powers and duties to accomplish OSD, HQDA, and USAREUR assigned tasks and missions.
• Senior legal advisor on all matters involving Intelligence Oversight Sensitive Information policy and restrictions, Questionable Intelligence Activities and investigations of significant or highly sensitive matters involving intelligence personnel.
• USAREUR legal subject matter expert on all intelligence and non-intelligence activities conducted in support of Incident Awareness and Assessment in furtherance of USAREUR/EUCOM related mission sets.
• Drafts all Proper Use Memoranda (PUMs) required for DFII capture, analysis, retention and dissemination and certifies compliance with all Intelligence Oversight policy requirements.
• Facilitates publication and dissemination of all PUMs to ensure all Command personnel involved in DFII capture, analysis, retention and dissemination are fully aware of approvals provided and restrictions imposed on all DFII missions and activities.
• Primary legal advisor for all non-intelligence activities conducted in support of DFII capture, analysis, retention and dissemination in furtherance of USAREUR and EUCOM mission sets.
• Reviews all DFII requests by non-intelligence capabilities or personnel, and for non-intelligence purposes, and certifies compliance with all Sensitive Information policy requirements.
• Advises the command on intelligence-based and non-intelligence based airborne and satellite imagery collection activities involving imagery collection operations in support of USAREUR and foreign humanitarian assistance.
• Evaluates complex factual issues related to every aspect of USAREUR-AF civilian and military operations for legal sufficiency to support the command’s mission.
• Conducts comprehensive legal reviews of draft orders, policy directives, operational concepts and activities in order to provide substantive and procedural advice to the command’s ability to lawfully execute its mission.
• Renders definitive legal opinions and associated oral advice on a variety of issues for including those where no legal precedent exists.

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