USAID
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Cybersecurity Counsel Attorney Advisor (GS-15) in the Office of General Counsel’s Ethics and Administration Division (GC/EA), the incumbent performs the following duties: (At the GS-14 Equivalent level, with minimal supervision, and at the GS-13 Equivalent level, with moderate supervision)
● Provides legal advice and guidance with respect to statutory authority and implementation of all programs, including providing interpretations of Executive Orders, regulations, and government-wide policies.
● Reviews all proposed Agency Automated Directives Systems (ADS) changes and additions to ensure that such issuances are in accord with relevant authorities and makes revisions where necessary in order to ensure compliance.
● Interprets, determines, and applies the authorities and requirements included in a variety of relevant legal sources, including: the Foreign Assistance Act, Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, Administrative Procedures Act, Federal Records Act, Foundations in Evidence-Based Policy Making Act, Federal Information Technology Reform Act, Federal Information Security Modernization Act, E-Government Act, Clinger Cohen Act, Anti-Deficiency Act, government-wide guidance issued including guidance from OMB, NIST, DHS, and GSA, and other applicable statutes, Executive Orders, regulations, policies, and case law.
● Provides legal guidance throughout the data lifecycle, such as the collection, maintenance, safeguarding, and disclosure of data, including personally identifiable information. This may include advice on and development of policies.
● Reviews end user license agreements, data licenses, and other licenses for compliance with law and policy, intellectual property concerns, and meeting the business needs of the agency.
● Drafts and provides legal reports and opinions when necessary for investigations and audits and Congressional inquiries.
● Represents the Agency with the Department of Justice (DoJ) on privacy, data, information security, and information technology matters which involve USAID or in which USAID is a party to a suit. Prepares necessary legal papers for action referred by DoJ to USAID for comment.
● Drafts and negotiates memorandums of understanding, interagency agreements and other types of binding and non-binding agreements or memoranda related to licenses, information security, information sharing, data, privacy, ediscovery, and related areas.
● Provides legal support for Congressional testimony or other appearances by Agency officials before boards, courts, administrative tribunals, or other bodies.
● Drafts and provides training to agency officials regarding legal aspects of privacy, cybersecurity, information technology, and data legal issues.
● Develops or reviews processes and policies on innovative approaches to collecting and sharing data.
● Provides legal advice and guidance to support GC/EA’s portfolio covering all other administrative and other management legal matters as necessary
How to apply
Submitting an Offer:
Offers must be received by the closing date and time at the address specified in the cover letter. Qualified individuals are required to submit:
- Complete resume. In order to fully evaluate your offer, your resume must include:
a. Paid and non-paid experience, job title, location(s), dates held (month/year), and hours worked per week for each position. Experience that does not include this information will not be counted towards meeting the solicitation requirements.
b. Specific duties performed that fully detail the level and complexity of the work.
c. Education and any other qualifications including job-related training courses, job-related skills, or job-related honors, awards, or accomplishments. Failure to identify an academic discipline will result in disqualification.
d. U.S. Citizenship
Your resume must contain sufficient information to make a valid determination that you fully meet the experience requirements as stated in the solicitation. This information must be clearly identified in your resume. Failure to provide information sufficient to determine your qualifications for the position will result in a loss of full consideration.
- USPSC Offeror form AID 309-2. “Offeror Information for Personal Services Contracts with Individuals,” Offerors are required to complete sections A through I. This form must be physically signed. Electronic signatures will not be accepted. AID 309-2 is available at http://www.usaid.gov/forms.
Additional documents submitted will not be accepted.
By submitting your offer materials, you certify that all of the information on and attached to the offer is true, correct, complete, and made in good faith. You agree to allow all information on and attached to the offer to be investigated. False or fraudulent information on or attached to your offer may result in you being eliminated from consideration for this position, or being terminated after award, and may be punishable by fine or imprisonment.
To ensure consideration of offers, for the intended position, please reference the solicitation number on your offer, and as the subject line in any email.
Reference checks will be conducted only for offerors considered as finalists. If an offeror does not wish USAID to contact a current employer for a reference check, this should be stated in the Offeror’s application.