Senior Regulatory Attorney

About this role

Basic Qualifications: A J.D. from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association; Active membership, in good standing, of the Bar of a State, territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia; and At least one full year of experience comparable in difficulty and responsibility to at least the GS-14 level in the Federal service. Preferred Qualifications: In addition to meeting the basic requirement, applicants must demonstrate professional legal experience that equipped them to perform the duties of this position at the GS-15 level.

Qualifying experience should demonstrate substantial expertise in several of the following areas: You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements by the closing date of this announcement. This is principally a rulemaking position. The ideal applicant will demonstrate experience in all of the areas listed below, and a strong applicant will have some or many of them. Substantial hands-on experience with Federal rulemaking is essential to this position; other legal experience, however strong, will not substitute for it.

Applications will be rated on the depth and breadth of experience across these areas. Drafting or reviewing proposed and final rules, including preambles, regulatory text, and responses to public comments; Applying the Administrative Procedure Act and other procedural requirements governing Federal rulemaking, and interpreting the statutes, regulations, and Executive orders that supply an agency's rulemaking authority; Coordinating regulatory review under Executive Order 12866, including working directly with OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; Preparing documents for publication in the Federal Register consistent with Office of the Federal Register requirements; Managing a regulatory docket or rulemaking program spanning multiple program offices, including intake, clearance, tracking, and meeting publication deadlines; Developing legal positions and recommendations on novel or unsettled regulatory questions, where governing authority is limited, competing interests must be reconciled, or the outcome carries significant policy or litigation consequences; Advising senior agency officials or executives on legally complex, high-visibility, or time-sensitive regulatory matters; and Leading, supervising, or providing substantive direction to attorneys, including reviewing legal work product for legal sufficiency and consistency with established legal positions.