Attorney Advisor, FPL 14 (Excepted Service)

Attorney Advisor

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.

As a Attorney Advisor, GS- /14 FPL 14 (Excepted Service), GS- , you will be responsible for:

• Exercising professional judgment on legal and factual matters relating to analysis, investigation, and adjudication of borrower defense claims or analysis and recommendations related to investigations.
• Devising and implementing strategies to investigate, analyze, and decide borrower defense claims, or recommend actions on investigations while working independently on projects of routine and moderate complexity and with supervision on more complex matters.
• Drafting legal memoranda detailing relevant evidence, applicable law, and bases for recommendations regarding alleged acts or omission by schools that may provide a basis for relief under the borrower defense regulation or may provide a basis for administrative actions arising from investigations.
• Participating in decision making for borrower defense or investigation matters.

As a Attorney Advisor, GS- /14 FPL 14 (Excepted Service), GS- , you will be responsible for:

• Exercises sound professional judgment on complex legal and factual matters relating to analysis and investigation of borrower defense claims or analysis and recommendations related to investigations.
• Devises and implements strategies to investigate, analyze, and decide borrower defense claims, or recommend actions on investigations, working independently on projects of moderate complexity and with minimal supervision on more complex matters.
• With limited supervision, writes legal memoranda detailing relevant evidence, applicable law, and bases for recommendations regarding alleged acts or omission by schools that may provide a basis for relief under the borrower defense regulation or may provide a basis for administrative actions arising from investigations.
• With limited supervision, writes legal memoranda detailing relevant evidence, applicable law, and bases for recommendations regarding alleged acts or omission by schools that may provide a basis for relief under the borrower defense regulation or may provide a basis for administrative actions arising from investigations.