U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
CRIMINAL DIVISION
OFFICE OF OVERSEAS PROSECUTORIAL DEVELOPMENT,
ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING
TRIAL ATTORNEY / GS-14 to GS-15
Vacancy Announcement Number: 08-CRM-OPDAT-025
The Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT), Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, seeks an experienced Department attorney or Assistant United States Attorney to serve as Headquarters Program Manager for OPDAT’s assistance program in Iraq. The assignment is for a term of one year with the possibility of an extension for another year, contingent on the availability of funds. (This is a reimbursable detail).
About the Office: The mission of the Criminal Division’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) is to develop and administer technical and developmental assistance designed to enhance the capabilities of foreign justice sector institutions and their law enforcement personnel, so those institutions and their personnel can more effectively combat terrorism, organized crime, corruption, financial crimes, trafficking in persons and other types of crime, in a manner consistent with the rule of law, and can more effectively cooperate regionally and with the United States in combating such crime.
Responsibilities and Opportunity Offered: The Program Manager will assist in the implementation of comprehensive U.S. Government assistance to the Government of Iraq. The program has been designed to foster United States Government interests through the establishment of a functioning criminal justice system in Iraq. The program emphasizes technical assistance and advice to indigenous justice sector officials in Iraq’s central and provincial government centers. Duties also include the responsibility to manage resources within detailed program budgets and cost estimates; to review systems of internal control in order to monitor the efficiency of programs; and to provide professional leadership and guidance to headquarters staff and Resident Legal Advisers and other in-country program personnel in carrying out the development objectives in support of OPDAT’s mission to provide administration of justice assistance and resources to prosecutors and other judicial sector personnel. The Program Manager will assist the development of new programs and review, evaluate, and recommend improvements to existing programs. The Program Manager and staff, located in Washington, D.C., will carry out headquarters level management responsibilities (programmatic, logistical, and financial) and will work closely with OPDAT’s Resident Legal Advisors in Iraq. Working within the OPDAT headquarters staff, the Program Manager also coordinates with officials within the Department of Justice, and with program policy officials in the National Security Council, the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and operational law enforcement agencies, as well as with in-country U.S. and Iraqi authorities, to assure the assistance program in Iraq meets the needs of the host country, and supports Departmental and U.S. policy objectives.
Required and Preferred Qualifications: An applicant must have excellent interpersonal, writing and speaking, organizational and management skills; be a self-starter; and have extensive prosecutorial experience. Experience with legal systems in the Middle East or experience with other civil law systems is desired. Knowledge of Arabic is also desired, but not required.
Application Process: Interested applicants should send a resume, cover letter and current performance appraisal, as soon as possible, to the attention of:
U.S. Department of Justice
Criminal Division, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial
Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT)
10th and Pennsylvania Aves., NW
Washington, DC 20530
Attn: Ms. Verna Muckle
Phone: (202) 305-9277
Faxed or E-mailed submissions are also acceptable. Ms. Muckle’s fax number is (202) 616-8429. Use her internal JCON address or her external E-mail address, which is verna.muckle@usdoj.gov
Deadline Date: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Salary Information: Current salary and years of experience determine the appropriate salary level. (See OPM’s Web page at http://www.opm.gov/oca/payrates/index.htm)
Relocation expenses are not authorized. This and selected other legal position announcements can be found on the Internet at: http://www.usdoj.gov/oarm/.
The U.S. Department of Justice is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. It is the policy of the Department to achieve a drug-free workplace and the persons selected will therefore be required to pass a drug test to screen for illegal drug use prior to final approval. Employment is also contingent upon the satisfactory completion of a background investigation adjudicated by the Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice welcomes and encourages applications from persons with physical and mental disabilities and will reasonably accommodate the needs of those persons. The Department is firmly committed to satisfying its affirmative obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to ensure that persons with disabilities have every opportunity to be hired and advanced.