If selected for this position, you will serve as a Paralegal Specialist with the United States Attorney's Office. Duties will include, but are not limited to:
Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.
The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maine has a position available for a Paralegal Specialist in our Criminal Division. The Paralegal Specialist vacancy is in our branch office, located in Bangor, central Maine's largest city. Bangor is a vibrant, livable small city located on the Penobscot River and less than one our from Acadian National Park and Maine's famous rocky coast. As a paralegal, you will have the opportunity to work with federal prosecutors on cases that have a direct impact on the lives of Americans who live in Maine and across the country. Paralegals provide assistance in the area of legal research and writing as well as reviewing evidence in cases involving violent crimes and various aspects of litigation. If you are looking for an exciting and challenging career, this is the position for you! You will be part of a dedicated team helping to enforce Federal criminal and civil laws that protect life, liberty, and the property of citizens. Our office places a high value on diversity of experiences and perspectives and encourages applications from individuals with cultural competence. We encourage individuals from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, veterans, LGBTQ individuals and persons with disabilities to apply. For additional information regarding our office, please visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-me.
You must be a United States Citizen or National. Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation. You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable. You must submit a transcript or proof of degree/certificate. Recent Graduates serve a trial period for the entire duration of their excepted service appointment. You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement. Qualifications To be eligible for a recent graduate appointment, ALL of the following requirements must be met: Recent Graduates must have obtained a qualifying associates, bachelors, master's, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying accredited educational institution within the previous 2 years unless military service interfered with a veteran's eligibility to apply during that two year time frame. Veterans meeting the above exclusion may apply within 2 years of discharge or 6 years from the date of receipt of the degree whichever comes first. (Go to http://www.ed.gov/accreditation?src=rn to verify accreditation status). Recent graduates must be United States citizens or owe permanent allegiance to the United States. (Currently, natives of American Samoa, Swains Island and certain inhabitants of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are the only groups that owe permanent allegiance to the United States.) You must successfully complete a background investigation to determine your suitability for Federal employment. All recent graduates are required to sign a Pathways Recent Graduate Participant Agreement. Recent Graduates serve a trial period for the entire duration of their excepted service appointment. Qualification requirements as outlined below GS-07: To be eligible at the GS-7 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions, as defined below: Specialized Experience, Education, OR a Combination of Education and Experience. Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-05 level. Specialized experience is defined as experience drafting a variety of legal documents and correspondence; assisting in trial preparation by compiling, organizing and indexing various evidentiary exhibits; reviewing legal documents to extract information related to specific issues; verifying citations and statutory references contained in legal documents; and utilizing various computerized database programs to organize extensive documents. Education : One full year of graduate level education leading to a Master's degree or higher; or a completed Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with Superior Academic Achievement as defined by the Office of Personnel Management's Qualification Standards (see announcement for details) Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. In order to qualify based on a combination, graduate education must be in excess of 1 full yea