Government Information Assistant

Duties

• Examining, preparing, and processing voluminous FOIA-related legal records to support timely and accurate responses.
• Maintaining FOIA request records, correspondence, and case information in the electronic tracking system.
• Obtaining requested court or agency records from custodial offices and reviews Records of Proceeding for accuracy.
• Converting paper records and audio materials into digital formats using scanning and duplication equipment.
• Performing quality control of digitized records to ensure files are legible, searchable, complete, and consistent with applicable records standards.
• Coordinating with internal offices and external agencies to provide request status information and support completion of FOIA processing milestones.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• You will be required to complete a pre-employment security investigation and background check which includes a drug screening.
• You may be required to complete a one-year probationary period.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31st 1959. Those not registered should have an approved exemption on file.
• Financial Disclosure:
  If selected, you may be required to disclose financial information in accordance with DOJ and Federal ethics guidelines.
• Salary payments must be by direct deposit to a financial institution.
• Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

In order to qualify for the Government Information Assistant position, you must meet the following minimum qualifications:

Specialized

Experience:

Applicants must have at least one year (52 weeks, full-time) of specialized work experience equivalent to the GS-06 level in the Federal service (or comparable experience outside the Federal service), performing 3 or more of the following duties:

• Processing records requests by reviewing and assembling case or legal documents under established procedures to support timely responses;
• Maintaining request data and case status information in an electronic tracking system to ensure accurate records;
• Converting paper or audio case records into electronic formats using scanning or duplication equipment to produce clear, usable files; and
• Performing quality control of digitized records to verify legibility, searchability, completeness, and compliance with established records standards.

(Your resume must CLEARLY demonstrate this experience)

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.

If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Conditions of Employment:
Only U.S. Citizens or Nationals are eligible for employment with the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Dual citizens of the U.S. and another country will be considered on a case-by-case basis. All DOJ applicants, both U.S. citizens and non-citizens, whose job location is with the U.S., must meet the residency requirement. For a total of three (not necessarily consecutive years) of the five years immediately prior to applying for a position, the applicant must have:
1) resided in the U.S.,
2) worked for the U.S. overseas in a Federal or military capacity; or
3) been a dependent of a Federal or military employee serving oversees.

To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and (for scored examining) score 85 or better on established ranking criteria OR (for category rating criteria) rate equivalent to the Highly Qualified or better category using established category rating criteria and must submit proof of eligibility for the special selection priority.

Multiple selections may be made from this announcement. Salaries listed above are an approximation and are subject to duty station locality adjustment.

Reasonable Accommodation Requests:
If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended and Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 as amended,…