Summary ***THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.*** This position is for a Attorney Adviser (General) Position Description Number D2250000 located in The Office of the Adjutant General, Georgia National Guard located in Marietta, Georgia. This is a full-time, Excepted Permanent, dual status position which requires Georgia Air National Guard Membership. Area of Consideration: Open to members of Active Duty Air Force, Air Force Reserves and Air National Guard. Responsibilities As an Attorney-Adviser (General), GS-0905-12, you will: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: Advise Commander and staff on interpretation of federal statutes and regulations, ensures that legal advice, consultation, and collaboration is furnished in a timely manner. Advise senior leadership of the alternatives and possible solutions which are legally permissible or desirable. Conduct classes and training for commanders, staff and other personnel on a variety of administrative and operational areas. Prepare legal opinions that involve complex legal and factual issues that often have far-reaching impact on the government. Assess and evaluate, for legal compliance and sufficiency, local policies and practices, proposed wing command and staff actions and decisions, official conduct and authority, commercial transactions, draft documents and publications, investigations, responses to inquiries, public statements, plans, and initiatives. Research, analyze, and interpret federal, state, and local law, administrative decisions, case law, and legal opinions, as well as Department of Defense (DoD) instructions and regulations, Air Force instructions and guidance, National Guard, Air National Guard, and state specific instructions and guidance. Formulate and delivers legal advice and counsel through oral and written opinions. Represent the Wing command on legal committees, working groups, and inter-disciplinary teams, and at legal conferences and meetings. 50% LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW: Provide preventive law guidance to management personnel on the impact of regulatory changes. ETHICS: Provide advice, assistance, administration and command reporting for filing with the Office of Government Ethics. Serve as the Wing Ethics counselor when delegated by NGB and/or the State Staff Judge Advocate, and prepares opinions and furnishes advice on a wide variety of ethics law issues, including pre and post-employment restrictions, standards of conduct and conflict of interest issues, and contact with prohibited sources and ensures the filing of Financial Disclosure Reports and Confidential Statements of Affiliations and Financial Interest. LEGAL ASSISTANCE: Counsel clients in person on the recommended legal course of action. POLICY SETTING: Formulate Wing legal policy and its execution; legal representation; legal initiatives; constitutional, civil, criminal, labor law; a full spectrum of expert legal advice to Wing leaders. Policy areas of law include: homeland defense and security, emergency response, sovereignty, application of state/territory compacts, fiscal and contract law, civil domestic support, employer support, military statute and administrative law (Federal & state/territory), non-military employment law (Federal & state/territory), administrative law, environmental law and emerging areas of law, i.e. Intelligence and cyber law, weapons of mass destruction emergency response and assistance to civil authorities, etc. Legal counsel provided covers the full spectrum of legal and wing organizational concerns faced by senior Wing leaders. Consult and coordinate with JFHQ offices and legal staff as appropriate. MILITARY JUSTICE: Prepare and render legal advice and opinions to commanders and senior staff regarding military justice options. Prepare statutory post-trial advice and actions of convening authority. DOMESTIC OPERATIONS: Provide professional legal advice and opinions on issues arising from federal laws and regulations and their application to the National Guard or concerning the federal mission of the National Guard, including homeland defense and security, emergency response, and application of state/territory compacts. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience is defined as serving as the full-time professional legal adviser and support to the Adjutant General, the Commander of federally recognized Army and Air National Guards, and state/territory unique public defense or safety structures or wing commander . In this primary purpose, this position also serves as the full-time professional legal advisor and support to Sexual Assault Response Coordinator and State Equal Employment Opportunity advisors, and subordinate commanders to support the state prevention efforts relating to sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic abuse . This position also serves as a professional legal adviser to the United States Property and Fiscal Officer (USPFO), state/territory National Guard senior leadership, state/territory National Guard directorates, and subordinate National Guard commanded units or state/territory level divisions. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11). Education Must have a law degree (LLB or JD) from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association and be an active member in good standing of a state, territory of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Bar. Additional Information If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx). Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest.