- Position Title
- ATTORNEY-ADVISOR (GENERAL) (TITLE 32)
- Agency
- Air National Guard Units
- Announcement Number
- MO-11684216-AF-22-440 Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Tuesday, October 11, 2022 to Friday, November 11, 2022
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Preferences
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Are you currently a member OR eligible to immediately become an active military member of the Missouri Army National Guard or Missouri Air National Guard?
MILITARY MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION.
MILITARY MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION.
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Choose one answer which best describes the category you fall into:
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Choose one answer which best describes the military grade that you possess:
Assessment 1
Respond to all the questions below. For each question, choose the response below that best describes your experience and/or training. Mark only one response for each question. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provide in your resume or application and information your references provide.
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Do you possess a validated understanding of the basic principles and concepts of an Attorney-Advisor position that includes skill in collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently, and accurately; knowledgeable of military and civilian laws, directives, regulations, policies, and procedures; ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communications; skill in interpersonal communications, empathy, and effective listening; ability to write English in reports and presentation formats; ability to communicate orally and in writing clearly and effectively; ability to organize thoughts, research materials, and manage case projects; and skill in comprehending and interpreting directives and laws?
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Do you possess a Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor Degree in law issued by an ABA-accredited law school; and, must be admitted to practice law in the highest court of any U.S. state, commonwealth, territory or the District of Columbia?
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Do you possess at least 12 months of work experiences as a professional Attorney Advisor; knowledgeable of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard mission requirements; competently provide legal interpretation and guidance to managers and senior leaders on United States Code Title 32 § 709, National Guard Program; recognize and identify complex constitutional, state-federal, and military-civilian jurisdictional issues frequently associated with the organization and administration of Title 5 and Title 32 National Guard, and articulate them in the appropriate forum or context; competently provide legal interpretation and guidance to managers and senior leaders on 10 United States Code, and the state equivalent to the federal Uniform Code of Military Justice? Experienced in conducting legal research in connection with cases pending administrative hearings, trials before courts of original jurisdiction, or arguments in appellate courts. Experienced in addressing legal questions referred by administrative officials of the employing agency, such as questions concerning the interpretation and application of statutes, rules, and regulations as they pertain to contracts, claims, or other legal instruments involving private business, state, local, national, or foreign governments. Experienced in addressing questions regarding the effects of provisions of proposed legislation or proposed changes in agency policies or regulations. Experienced in researching and providing legal advice in all functional areas of Administrative, Labor, Medical and Physical Disability, and Ethics Law. Additionally, capable of providing legal assistance in accordance with prescribed instructions and within legal guidelines. Experienced in planning, coordinating, and formulating litigation strategies. Experienced in addressing complex and difficult legal questions and factual issues requiring extensive research, analysis and evaluation of available precedents. Experienced in dealing with issues in the functional areas and demonstrated abilities to quickly identify both the legal and judgmental issues. As a subject matter expert, experienced in determining the facts and recommending effective solutions with minimal guidance or supervision. Experienced in developing and providing solutions to conflicting or contradictory DoD regulations, directives, and policies, and other NGB or state legal guidance. Experienced in addressing and resolving complex and difficult legal case problems, legal questions, or issues involved in the drafting of interpretation or application of legislation, regulations, contracts, decisions, or opinions requiring a solution. Experienced in preparing memoranda of reports that outlined and analyzed the factual and legal issues. Experiences involved preparing legal documents or advisory opinions, participated in contract negations, and examined documents for legal sufficiency. Skilled as a legal litigator and experienced in preparing litigation reports, briefs, pleadings, and other papers associated with civil litigations. Experienced in addressing Federal Labor-Management relations and skilled as a participating collective bargaining member of the management negotiating team. Skilled as the subject-matter expert in the complex and constantly evolving area of Medical and Physical Disability and Domestics Operations Law; conducted legal research, investigation and negotiation, and provided legal advice, opinions, recommendations and legal memoranda. Experienced in reviewing programs that requires analysis of interrelated issues of effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, and developing recommendations to resolve issues and problems. Competent in developing recommendations for overall detailed plans, goals, and objectives for implementation and evaluation of the legal program. Experienced in addressing issues, problems or concepts and skilled in observations and analysis projections. Experiences may have included addressing difficult and sensitive issues based on variations in the nature of the processes evaluated, the diverse missions of the units assigned, and resource limitations. Experienced in compiling, reconciling, and correlating data from a various sources, separate service programs, and integral record systems. Experienced in researching, cross-checking information, and interpreting data to obtain accurate and relevant information. Experienced and skilled in collecting information, documenting data to substantiate and validate findings, facts, or violations of government policies, procedures, and instructions. Skilled in negotiating with those who resist responding or cooperating, due to such issues as organizational conflict, competing objectives, or limited resources. Skilled in influencing managers or other staff officials to accept and implement findings or recommendations. Competent to meet with senior military and civilian leadership, high-ranking managers to include Adjutants General, commanders, other staff judge advocates, or other external agencies such as, representatives of the local community and private support organizations, state and local government authorities, or attorneys on an ad-hoc basis.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
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Acts as a legal adviser and attorney for the state/territory National Guard, responsible for the formulation of state/territory legal policy and its execution legal representation; legal initiatives; interpretation and litigation of U.S. and state/territory(s) constitutional, civil, criminal, labor law; international law and treaty agreements; trial defense; and a full spectrum of expert legal advice.
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Performs assignments that include diverse, complex, difficult and emerging legal issues found in any area of law, to include homeland security and emergency response, sovereignty, state/territory compacts, fiscal and contract law, civil affairs, employer support, military statute and administrative law (Federal & state/territory), non-military employment law (Federal & state/territory), administrative law, environmental law and emerging areas of law, i.e. domestic operations, intelligence law, weapons of mass destruction emergency response and assistance to civil authorities, etc.
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Counsel provided covers the full spectrum of legal and organizational concerns, frequently involving the most politically and legally substantive, sensitive and privileged issues faced by senior public sector leader.
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Advises on legal, factual and other impacting aspects of drafting, interpretation and application of legislation, regulation, tasking orders, decision, opinions or other guidance, or lack thereof, instruments associated with emerging or highly conflicted and emotionally charged issues such as intelligence oversight related to Homeland Security, or advising on Federal and state/territory Executive Orders for the use of federalized troops in response to domestic emergencies and natural disasters.
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Advises appointed and elected leaders on the appropriate use of National Guard personnel, resources and status issues for critical and diverse missions, emergency responses, contingencies and exercises, ensuring execution is consistent legislative intent, executive orders, current U.S. Codes and state/territory laws, court decisions and agreements.
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Serves as the state/territory National Guard litigation point of contact.
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Represents the state/territory National Guard in all legal matters in state/territory and Federal courts of original or appellate jurisdictions.
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Seeks to prevent avoidable litigation, but may serve as Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney or Assistant Attorney General at trial as cases dictate.
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Conducts investigations of fact and legal sufficiency; advising on administrative remedies; develops the trial strategy, content and means of presentation, and trial delivery; makes motions; and conducts post-trial duties.
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Prepares litigation reports, briefs, pleadings and other papers associated with litigation involving the state/territory National Guard interests.
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Advises on discovery obligations for senior leaders and members of the state/territory National Guard.
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Serves as an attorney/adviser providing acquisition and fiscal legal advice to the state/territory's assigned United States Property & Fiscal Officer (the Chief of the National Guard Bureau's agent in the state/territory) and active duty military advisers.
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Advises Army National Guard (ARNG) and Air National Guard (ANG) contracting officers, reviews contracts, procurement actions and real property matters involving Federal and state/territory funds (some involving substantial amounts of money) for legal sufficiency, appropriate titling and claim initiation or resolution actions.
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Provides advice and legal assistance in bid protest matters and represents the National Guard in disputes before fiscal and contract administrative and judicial forums.
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Acts as the Adjutant General's representative in third-party proceedings under Federal labor-management and equal employment opportunity statutes and regulatory provisions.
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Represents the state/territory National Guard as a trial attorney on assigned cases before investigators, administrative judges and arbitrators from various appellate bodies including, but limited to, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Federal Services Impasses Panel and Federal Courts.
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Possesses a thorough understanding of controlling labor laws, regulations, labor arbitration, collective bargaining agreements and pertinent labor relations practices.
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Reviews collective bargaining agreements for legal sufficiency.
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Prepares litigation reports, unfair labor practice charges, petitions for injunctive relief, and supporting legal documents, as necessary.
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Keeps abreast of the labor relations trends and issues within both the Federal and state/territory sectors.
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Advises the convening authorities, including the state/territory Adjutant General, on procedural and legal issues associated with Courts Martial, Non-Judicial Punishment Administrative Board proceedings and subsequent actions.
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Serves as the state/territory Ethics Adviser.
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Reviews sensitive financial disclosure statements for General Officers and other key personnel.
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Provides or participates in various training activities, prepares reports and provides counsel on complex ethics issues and policies; and ensures Federal and state/territory annual administrative reporting requirements are met.
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Serves as claims officer for the state/territory National Guard.
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Reviews Claim Investigating Officer reports, adjudication recommendations, regardless of filing location, and approves forwarding of actions to the appropriate claims office.
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Reviews for legal sufficiency and approves or dispatches recommended action to approving authorities a variety of documents or investigative determinations such as freedom of information requests, financial liability investigations, line of duty determinations, and similar administrative proceedings.
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Provides oversight and guidance to the state/territory Judge Advocate's Legal Office, Legal Assistance and Preventative Law Programs, and supervises assigned full-time attorney and support staff.
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Coordinates the provision of legal services throughout the state and oversees the assignments of attorney and paralegal personnel within the subordinate units in both the Army and Air National Guard to accomplish all legal support requirements.
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Do you certify that all of your responses to this questionnaire are true and accurate; and do you accept that if your supporting documentation does not support one or more of your responses to the questionnaire that your application may be rated lower or you may be removed from further consideration?