Attorney-Advisor (General)

Job Title

This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, Rocky Mountain Region and the duty station is either Billings, Montana OR Lakewood, Colorado. This particular position will be assigned to the Billings Field Office and will primarily represent the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) on any matters relating to BIA's Rocky Mountain Region, which covers reservations in Montana (except for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) and in Wyoming. The position may also provide representation to other Interior bureaus, primarily relating to Indian law.

Major Duties

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

• Representing the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Civilian Board of Contract Appeals cases and Interior Board of Indian Appeals cases.
• Advising the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act contracts.
• Reviewing Bureau of Indian Affairs land acquisitions and issue title opinions.
• Reviewing and preparing litigation reports, overseeing discovery, drafting pleadings, and reviewing Department of Justice filings in judicial litigation on matters arising out of various programs and activities for Interior's agencies.
• Other duties as assigned, including authoring memoranda of understanding, recommendations regarding appeal, settlement documents, and other transactional documents arising out of bureau and agency program activities.
• Assist on other matters assigned by the Regional Solicitor, Field Solicitor, or other supervising attorney advisor. Such assignments may include conducting legal research, analyzing and interpreting federal statutes, regulations, case law, other legal documents, and agency guidance and producing opinions and memoranda requiring a high degree of creative legal effort, judgment, and discretion, often harmonizing conflicting positions in areas with little or no precedent, while promoting goals of uniformity, simplicity, and efficiency, and providing formal and informal advice to various DOI agencies.

Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level. First time hires to the federal government typically start at the beginning salary in the range for their respective grade level.

For duty station in Billings, Montana GS-13: $106,437 (Step 1) - $138,370 (Step 10) Per Annum GS-14: $125,776 (Step 1) - $163,514 (Step 10) Per Annum

For duty station in Lakewood, CO GS-13: $118,675 (Step 1) - $154,280 (Step 10) Per Annum GS-14: $140,239 (Step 1) - $182,316 (Step 10) Per Annum