Lead Legal Administrative Specialist

Protect your homeland and defend your culture. Join USCIS, America's frontline defense against illegal foreign infiltration and fraud. As a Lead Legal Administrative Specialist, you will provide administrative oversight to a team of subordinates and serve as a senior analyst to the supervisor on mission and/or administrative programs requiring application of a wide range of analytical methods and evaluative techniques.

Communicate the organization's strategic plan, mission, values and vision to the team.

Ensure compliance with background check and decision service protocols and provide information regarding case status and progress to appropriate Asylum Division, ICE and CBP personnel as well as the public.

Train the LAS team in the selection and application of appropriate problem solving methods and techniques, and provide advice on work methods, practices and procedures.

Serve as a mentor, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.

Develop briefings, presentations, reports and other communications for management

Provide administration oversight to a team of subordinates. Lead subordinate team in identifying, distributing and balancing workload and tasks among employees.

Conditions of Employment: You must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National to apply for this position Successfully pass a Background Investigation including financial disclosure You must pass a drug screening Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service Political appointees may require OPM approval before on-boarding USCIS applies the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010 to its telework program This position IS NOT considered "essential" for purposes of reporting to work when the facility might otherwise be closed. Residency Requirement: There is a residency requirement for all applicants not currently employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. This residency requirement states that candidates must have, for three of the last five years immediately prior to applying for this position; (1) resided in the United States; OR (2) worked for the United States Government as an employee overseas in a Federal or Military capacity, OR (3) been a dependent of a U.S. Federal or Military employee serving overseas. Probationary Period: You may be required to serve a probationary period of 1 year.