Paralegal Specialist

**Duties**:

- Integrate administrative law with related health care legal issues to review actions, draft pleadings and memorandums, and provide recommendations on legal sufficiency.
- Analyze complex, conflicting statutes, and case law.
- Draft legal opinions and responses for Director signature on legal issues involving healthcare law, administrative law, and government ethics.
- Represent the Market Attorney and Military Treatment Facility Operations Branch Chief as necessary in meetings and discussions with individuals involved in legal matters.
- Provide guidance of clinical adverse actions for compliance with legal due process from inception to completion.
- Maintain exhibits, documents, and files for evidence.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
- You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
- Two year trial period maybe required.
- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.
- This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment. A background investigation and credit check are required.
- Approximately 25% travel may be required. Travel may involve local and/or overnight.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply: US Citizens**
- **Specialized experience**: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service which includes researching administrative legal issues for the action attorney; reviewing adverse actions for compliance with legal due process; and writing legal reviews on documents and/or files.
- **OR**

**Education**:Successful completion of Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M. in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the work of the position, such as Paralegal Studies or Legal Studies. (Note: You must attach a copy of your transcripts.)
- **OR**

**Combination of Education and Experience Substitution**:A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.
- You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
- Information Management
- Investigative Information Gathering
- Legal, Government and Jurisprudence

**Education**:
**Additional information**:

- Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
- U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement.
- If an employee brings a child to an overseas location and that child is entitled to attend a DoD school on a space-required basis in accordance with DoDEA Regulation 1342.13, the DoDEA and the Military Department responsible for providing related services will ensure that the child, if eligible for special education, receives a free appropriate public education, including related services pursuant to DoDI 1342.12 and DoDM 1342.12.
- If an employee brings an infant or toddler (up to 3 years of age) to an overseas location, and that infant or toddler, but for the child's age, is entitled to attend the DoDEA on a space-required basis in accordance with DoDEA Regulation 1342.13, then the Military Department responsible for EIS will provide the infant or toddler with the required EIS in accordance with the eligibility criteria consistent with DoDI 1342.12 and DoDM 1342.12.
- Employees (and family members) who require medical or dental care in the overseas location will be responsible for obtaining and paying for such care. Access for civilian employees and their families to military medical and dental treatment facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable basis only.
- Pay retention may be offered to selected applicants for positions at overseas locations. Pay retention will not be offered as an incentive for employees moving between overseas positions.
- Selectees may receive certain foreign area benefits such as: Living Quarters Allowance (LQA) or government quarters, home leave, etc. Selectees will have their eligibility for foreign area benefits determined at the time of hire in accordance with Department of State Standardized Regulation (DSSR) and DoDI 1400.25 volume 1250.
- The initial length of this overseas tour is 36 months.
- Defense National Relocation Program will not be authorized.
- Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS