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Paralegal Specialist
Customs and Border Protection · Posted today
About the Role
Organizational Location: This position is with the Department of Homeland Security, within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, San Francisco Field Office, located in San Francisco, California and Portland Field Office, located in Anchorage, Alaska. Additional selections may be made for other organizational divisions and/or units within the duty location(s) listed above.
What You'll Do
- →Joining the Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations will allow you to use your expertise to provide legal support of those executing the law enforcement duties at the port level.
- →Apply for this exciting opportunity to strengthen homeland security by performing paralegal activities such as reviewing and finalizing claims, preparing cases, and coordinating the work of a paralegal team.
- →This position starts at a salary of $50,460.00 (GS-07, Step 1) to $80,243.00 (GS-09, Step 10) with promotion potential to $116,362.00 (GS-12 Step 10).
- →Salary: Salary listed reflects the rest of U.S. scale and, if applicable, will be adjusted to meet the locality pay or cost of living expenses of the duty location upon selection.
- →Please see the following link for specific COLA Rates for the Anchorage, Alaska location: COLA and Locality Pay Rates in Nonforeign Areas GS Salary: Visit this link to view the locality pay tables by geographic area.
- →If you do not see your geographic area listed, select the "Rest of United States" pay table.
- →Some positions fall under a special pay rate depending on the series, grade level and location of the position.
- →Please visit this link to view special pay rate charts.
- →In this Paralegal Specialist position, you will become you will become a key member of a team of homeland security professionals providing key legal support for the law enforcement duties at the port level.
- →Typical work assignments include: Initiating and adjudicating civil liabilities arising from seizures, penalties, fines, and claims for liquidated damages initiated under the authority of Title 19 of the United States Code.
- →Developing and evaluating all evidence, facts, and circumstances relating to cases and makes determinations and recommendations as appropriate within the requirements of the mitigation guidelines, laws, and regulations.
- →Reviewing and making decisions as to the acceptability of evidence in some seizure, fines, and penalty cases and all liquidated damages.
- →Advising the supervisor/ FPF(Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures) Officer on problems and solutions involving the relationship of Fines, Penalties, and Forfeitures work to broader operations.
- →Positions with known promotion potential do not guarantee promotion, nor is the promise of promotion implied.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Your conduct will be subject to the ethics rules applicable to all Executive Branch employees, and to CBP employees specifically, as well as the criminal conflict of interest statutes.
- ✓Once you enter on duty, these rules include obtaining approval for outside employment or business activity, to ensure such employment or business activity is not prohibited and does not interfere or conflict with performance of your official duties.
- ✓Please review further details via the following link.
- ✓DHS uses E-Verify, an internet-based system, to confirm the eligibility of all newly hired employees to work in the United States.
- ✓Learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities.
- ✓Bargaining Unit: This is a bargaining unit covered position, represented under the National Treasury Employees Unions - NTEU.
- ✓For local chapter contact information see Chapter Websites - National Treasury Employees Union - NTEU.
- ✓Please see the Qualifications and Required Documents sections for more information if education is applicable to this position.
Personality Fit
Job ID: d6a71b04-ac5a-46f7-bdaa-ca42ce23eddc
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