Financial Litigation Technician

For more information on the Department of Justice and the United States Attorneys' Offices, visit http://www.justice.gov/usao/.

As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

This position is also being announced to applicants eligible to apply through Merit Staffing procedures under 26-NDCA-12928910-MS.

Qualifications:

GS-7: To be eligible at the GS-7 level, you must meet the Specialized Experience requirement below:

Have at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-06 level in Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience performing a variety of technical support work requiring knowledge of the laws, regulations, and requirements of financial litigation. Examples of specialized experience may include the following: obtaining and analyzing financial information on debtors, initiating contact with debtors, conducting skip tracing activity, communicating with debtors to present options for debt payments, and producing a variety of written documents and materials utilizing a wide range of office software applications ensuring proper format, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP)- The ICTAP provides eligible displaced Federal competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your agency has notified you in writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your ICTAP eligibility; 2) you apply under the instructions in the announcement; and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide proof of eligibility to receive selection priority. Such proof may include a copy of your written notification of ICTAP eligibility or a copy of your separation personnel action form. Additional information about ICTAP eligibility is at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)-The CTAP provides eligible surplus and displaced competitive service employees in the Department of Justice with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. If your Department of Justice component has notified you in writing that you are a surplus or displaced employee eligible for CTAP consideration, you may receive selection priority if: 1) this vacancy is within your CTAP eligibility, 2) you apply under the instructions in this announcement, and 3) you are found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well qualified, you must satisfy all qualification requirements for the vacant position and receive a score of 85 or better on established ranking criteria. You must provide a copy of your written notification of CTAP eligibility with your application. Additional information about CTAP eligibility is at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.

Responsibilities:

In a developmental capacity, incumbent performs work designed to increase the skills and knowledge required to perform higher level financial litigation technician duties.

- Develops, analyzes and evaluates information regarding debtors financial asset.
- Reviews and analyzes claims for legal merit and compliance with the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act.
- Reviews, evaluates and verifies debtors account status and payment transactions.
- Works closely with supervisor or AUSAs in making recommendations concerning settlements, write-offs and liquidations of civil and/or criminal judgments.


Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

Each grade has 10 step rates and new Federal employees are usually hired at step one of the applicable GS grade level at which the applicant qualified. The salary range for a GS-7 in San Francisco, California is $63,081- $82,007 (step 1 through step 10).

This position has a full performance level of GS-8.

Salary : $63,081 - $82,007