Legal Assistant

*Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. If qualifying based on related unpaid (e.g. volunteer service) experience, you must provide hours worked per week and beginning/ending dates (mm/yyyy to mm/yyyy). You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Experience: To receive credit, you must indicate the month and year as well as the average hours worked per week for each employer. Average work hours must be stated on the resume to quantify each period of work experience or that experience will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. You must address the specific specialized experience required for each grade level of this position on your resume or application or you will be rated “Ineligible” for that grade level. GS-06: To qualify you must have at least 1 full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-05 level in the Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skill, and ability to perform successfully in this position. This experience may have been gained in a Non-Federal service position. In addition, this Specialized Experience must demonstrate the following: Providing customer service by responding to internal or external customer inquiries; and Experience utilizing mobile and desktop productivity applications such as web browsers, email, spreadsheets, and word processing; and Maintaining or safeguarding documents/records containing sensitive or confidential information in a business environment, such as documents containing personal financial information or Personally Identifiable Information (PII); and Preparing or proofing legal documents. Qualification Standards: Legal Assistance Series 0986
You will serve as a Legal Assistant for the Small Business Administration (SBA), Office of Capital Access (OCA), Office of Financial Programs Operations (OFPO), Disaster Lending Operations Division (DLOD), COVID-19 EIDL Servicing Center (CESC) in Fort Worth, Texas. This position provides oversight in all phases of operation of the COVID and Economic and Injury Disaster Loan Servicing Center.