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Established in 2022, the Office of Environmental Justice coordinates environmental justice activities across DOJ components and offices. Community outreach and relationship management responsibilities include documenting harm to communities/individuals, collecting community knowledge relevant to harms, and communicating government actions to address community concerns. The incumbent plans, designs, and executes campaigns to convey information on DOJ's environmental justice programs.

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Conditions of Employment

Must be a U.S. citizen or national
Must complete a Background Investigation to include pre-employment drug testing
You will be required to serve a one-year probationary period; if not already served.
If this is your first appointment in the Federal Government, pay will be set at step 1 of the grade selected.
If you were born male, on or after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.

Qualifications

To qualify for GS-12: You must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-11 Federal grade level or above performing administrative management duties and responsibilities related to the work of a Community Outreach Specialist for organizing engagement activities with stakeholders, gathering and analyzing data, executing multiple projects, and communicating with stakeholders both verbally and in writing.

To qualify for GS-13: You must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-12 Federal grade level or above performing program management duties and responsibilities related to the work of a Community Outreach Specialist for directing engagement activities with stakeholders, analyzing and reporting data, managing multiple projects, and communicating with stakeholders both verbally and in writing.

Highly desirable:

Demonstrated ability to lead or facilitate meetings (or otherwise personally engage) with communities that are overburdened and underserved.
Relevant knowledge and experience of environmental justice.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skill and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

YOUR RESUME MUST support your responses to the online questionnaire and provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience as described in the vacancy announcement if you are using experience to meet all or part of the qualification requirements. Please ensure that your resume includes the month and year that you began and ended each position held or that position will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide details will result in an ineligible rating. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions.

Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered.

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Education

There is no substitution of education for experience at this grade level.

Additional information

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP/ICTAP): The Career Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in DOJ with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies.ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies.
If you have received written notification of your eligibility for consideration under CTAP/ICTAP, you may receive special priority consideration for this position, if this vacancy is within your CTAP/ICTAP eligibility and you are well-qualified for the position. To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements and rate equivalent to the Highly Qualified or better category using established category rating criteria.

Veterans Preference: If you are entitled to or claim veteran preference (VP), you should indicate the type of veteran preference (5 or 10 points) you are claiming on your resume. In order to determine your eligibility, you can find additional information at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/veterans-services/vet-guide/

To verify your veteran preference entitlement, submit a copy of the Member Copy 4 of your DD-214; official statement of service from your command if you are currently on active duty; or other official documentation (e.g., documentation of receipt of a campaign badge or expeditionary medal) that shows your military service was performed under honorable conditions. If you are claiming 10-point preference, you must submit Member Copy 4 of your DD-214 in addition to the supporting documentation required and identified on the reserve side of the SF-15, Application for 10 Point Veteran Preference. If you are claiming 10-point DERIVED PREFERENCE as a relative you must submit Member Copy 4 of the veteran's DD-214 and an SF-15 in addition to the supporting documentation required and identified on the reverse side of the SF-15. If you fail to do so, you will receive consideration as a non-veteran.

Benefits: DOJ offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes, in part, paid vacation; sick leave; holidays; telework; life insurance; health benefits; and participation in the Federal Employees Retirement System.

General Employment Information:

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION: Our policy can be found at: Reasonable Accommodation (justice.gov)
DOJ EEO STATEMENT: The U.S. Department of Justice fosters an inclusive and diverse workforce, find our EEO statement online at: https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/file/1394116/dl?inline
SELECTIVE SERVICE: Additional information is found at: www.sss.gov.

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