Attorney

General Attorney (Civil Right)This is an open continuous announcement with cutoff dates. Applications will be referred based on receipt of application and established cutoff dates as follows:1st cutoff date: 08/26/2026 2nd cutoff date: 09/09/2026 3rd cutoff date: 09/23/2026Last cutoff date: 09/28/2026This is an Excepted Service position. The job will be filled by alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service. Applicants selected for an excepted service position are subject to a one-year trial period. Join our Team! The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is looking for the best and brightest to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation.General Attorney (Civil Right), GS-0905-13Ensuring that complaints and proactive enforcement activities are processed in accordance with the Assistant Secretary's directives, regulations, policies, case law and conform to established case-processing procedures. Ensures that appropriate remedies are obtained.Conducting legal research and provides legal and policy advice to team members on matters of considerable complexity relating to the investigation, negotiation, resolution of complaints, and compliance reviewsPreparing and presenting training to team members on complex issues, complex statutory and regulatory standards, changes in case law, new policy decisions, investigatory techniques, negotiation skills and other case development issuesProviding legal advice in the development of technical assistance materials (i.e., responses to recipient inquiries) and reviews such materials to ensure conformity with established legal and policy standards. Provides technical assistance to stakeholdersGeneral Attorney (Civil Right), GS-0905-12Making civil rights compliance determinations and ensuring that complaints and proactive enforcement activities are processed in accordance with the Assistant Secretary's directives, regulations, policies, case law and conform to established case-processing procedures. Ensures that appropriate remedies are obtained.Participating in all aspects of complaint and proactive enforcement investigations including on-site investigations. Duties include: evaluating complaints; planning investigations; determining legal issues; determining investigation and legal strategy; conducting legal research; collecting/analyzing/interpreting investigation data/information and conducting necessary interviews; implementing approaches to organizing and conducting evaluation, planning, investigation, resolution and/or enforcement activities.Drafting letters (e.g., dismissal letters, notification letters, data requests, letters of finding) and other documents (e.g., statements of the case, legal memoranda, resolution agreements).General Attorney (Civil Right), GS-0905-11Evaluating complaints; planning investigations; determining legal issues; determining investigation and legal strategy; conducting legal research; providing legal/policy advice; collecting/analyzing/interpreting investigation data/information and conducting necessary interviews;Implementing approaches to organizing and conducting evaluation, planning, investigation, resolution and/or enforcement activities; drafting letters (e.g., dismissal letters, notification letters, data requests, letters of finding) and other documents (e.g. statements of the case, legal memoranda, resolution agreements)Conducting legal research and provides legal advice to team members on matters of routine complexity relating to the investigation, negotiation, resolution of complaints and compliance reviews and directed investigations and the monitoring of corrective action agreements.