Supervisory Legal Administrative Specialist

Federal experience is not required. The experience may have been gained in the public sector, private sector or Volunteer Service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-timework is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week, on your resume. You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement: BASIC REQUIREMENT : All GRADES — SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR: To be eligible for this position, at any grade level, applicants must demonstrate the following: Knowledge of Legal Industry, including legal practices, federal codes and regulations, and application of complex legal principles to facts. This knowledge may be met through experience and/or education. To meet this requirement, the applicant must demonstrate the following experience: Substantive knowledge of state and federal laws, judicial decisions and precedents, legal codes, court procedures, legal practices, legal instruments and documents, government regulations, executive orders, and agency rules specific to tax administration and compliance. Exceptional skill in researching, interpreting, examining, analyzing and applying relevant state and federal laws, regulations, related statutes, and sub-regulatory guidance, sufficient to produce written reports, relevant forms, instructions, explanatory publications, legal memoranda, proposed legislation, and other materials, sufficient to address taxpayer rights and responsibilities, propose tax legislation or regulation, and issue opinions and/or decisions specific to tax administration or compliance. AND Specialized Experience IR-0901-04 — You must have one (1) year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the next lower level within the payband or GS grade in the normal line of progression in the Federal service that demonstrates the required managerial skills and technical competence required to perform the job. To qualify for this position your experience must include: Experience that demonstrated management/leadership experience such as applying management techniques, methods, theories, principles, or labor relations concepts for the accomplishment of all program objectives with combined technical and administrative oversight. This experience may have been gained through work experience as a project/program manager, team lead or project/program lead, technical advisor, or senior specialist/analyst that included managing resources, providing support to managers, mentoring team members, providing day to day guidance training and/or oversight of peers or others. Experience applying regulations, other official guidance and principles, including the latest procedures and techniques sufficient to oversee the planning, development and implementation of the technical aspects of programs specific to the position being filled. Experience applying communicative techniques to effectively and diplomatically interact with internal and external customers. In addition to the above, experience analyzing and interpreting relevant tax laws, regulations, judicial decisions and precedents, rulings, policies, IRS functions, processes, interrelationships and dependencies, procedures, and precedent decisions in order to research and advise on effecting resolution of issues allegations of misconduct of tax practitioners in a broad array of representational matters demonstrating a full understanding of professional practice (representational or ethics) standards; experience specific issues or allegations of misconduct under Circular 230; experience preparing, reviewing, or applying revenue rulings, revenue procedures, IRS guidance, legal memoranda, etc. related to Circular 230 and Federal taxation; experience demonstrating understanding of state , and Congressional oversight issues; experience in public speaking on Federal tax matters and participating in training initiatives for internal and external audiences applying communicative techniques to interact with internal and external customers effectively, and diplomatically. For more information on qualifications please refer to OPM’s Qualifications Standards.
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