Paralegal Specialist

What you would do

• Help gather, arrange, analyze, and evaluate information and evidence.
• Support organization attorneys in completing their work.
• Apply established procedures and help start actions that affect different units.

Do you qualify for GG-9 (up to GG-12)?

With experience: You need one year of specialized experience at the GS-7 level or equivalent. This means progressively responsible intelligence-related security work that includes locating and selecting references for operations or procedures, person-to-person work to give or get facts, and creating correspondence templates.

With education: A master's or equivalent graduate degree, or 2 full years of progressively higher graduate study toward one, or an LL.B. or J.D. in a field such as jurisprudence, can qualify you. You can also combine education and experience, and the combined total must reach 100%. Education from foreign schools must be evaluated by a recognized private organization or given full U.S. credit.

Licenses and certifications you need:

• Valid state driver's license

How to apply well

What to send:

• Resume of two pages or less showing employer, job title, start and end dates, hours per week, and duties
• Answers to the online application questionnaire
• Documents proving you meet your employment category, such as veterans' or federal service records
• Proof of U.S. citizenship
• College transcripts if you qualify through education
• Most recent performance appraisal, if applicable
• Optional cover letter

How you will be rated: You are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, using your application materials, your questionnaire answers, and USA Hire online assessments. The assessments measure 12 general skills, such as reading comprehension, teamwork, and stress tolerance, and you must meet a cut score. Overstating your experience or cheating on the assessment can get you removed from consideration.

Tips for this job:

• Your resume must be two pages or less and clearly show at least one year of specialized experience, with hours per week for each job.
• Do not include classified information in your application, and use plain language without unexplained acronyms.
• If you are notified, complete the USA Hire assessments on time, since the deadline can be within 48 hours after the announcement closes.

Good to know before you apply

Schedule: Full-time. Temporary duty travel may be required up to 10% of the time, and extended TDY or worldwide deployments may happen during crisis situations.

Incentives and relocation: Relocation expenses are not reimbursed. Permanent Change of Station moves may be authorized if the agency decides the move is in the government's interest.

Conditions of employment:

• Suitability or fitness determination after a background investigation
• Urinalysis drug screening before appointment and periodically after
• Counterintelligence-scope polygraph with No Deception Indicated result, before appointment and periodically
• Travel up to 10% of the time
• Pass the Army Defensive Driver's Training Course
• Possible extended TDY or worldwide deployments during crisis situations
• TOP SECRET clearance with SCI eligibility, based on a single-scope background investigation
• 2-year trial period
• Selective Service registration for men born after December 31, 1959
• Proof of U.S. citizenship
• Direct deposit of pay required
• Selection may be restricted by the DoD referral system for displaced employees

Job details

Salary

$70,623 – $133,142 per year

Pay scale and grade

GG-9 (up to GG-12) · General Schedule equivalent

Location

Fort Meade, Maryland

Appointment

Permanent

Work schedule

Full-time

Service

Excepted

Openings

1

Security clearance

Sensitive Compartmented Information

Travel

25% or less

Drug test

Not required

Supervisory

No

Occupation

Paralegal Specialist (0950)

Announcement

SDST-26-13098904-DCIPS