Paralegal Specialist - Virtual
Responsibilities
As a Paralegal Specialist - Virtual at the GS-0950-9/11, some of your typical work assignments may include:
- Performing legal reviews of residential and business loan documents for compliance with applicable agency policies and practices, regulations, and laws.
- Responding to loan related inquiries from, and preparing correspondence for, a wide range of customers such as Attorneys, borrowers, managers/supervisors, other internal and external partners and the general public.
- Managing a portfolio of loans and performing all loan closing duties for any assigned loans while complying with portfolio management directives.
- Making recommendations for the disbursement of funds within the agency guidelines.
- Using Microsoft Office software or other computer applications such as mainframe database software to do research and perform a wide variety of other functions.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- This position was previously advertised under announcement number EXC-20-056-PDC-10753584. If you previously applied under EXC-20-056-PDC-10753584, you DO NOT need to reapply under this announcement in order to receive consideration for the position.
- Additional locality pay may be added to the above salary based on the employee's residence or work location.
- By applying for this position with SBA's Office of Disaster Assistance, you can enjoy challenging but satisfying work and join a highly motivated and diverse team that helps families and businesses rebuild their lives after a disaster.
Conditions of Employment
- You must be able to obtain and maintain a Government travel credit card.Favorable background investigation and credit check are required.Mandatory Overtime: In order to respond quickly and efficiently to disaster survivors, substantial compensated overtime hours may be required while on assignment (up to seven days a week and ten to fourteen hours a day).Credit Score must be at least 500.
Qualifications
Generally, time in Non-Pay status is not creditable towards the specialized experience requirement listed below.
You must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
You may qualify based on experience, education or a combination of both.
Experience: To receive credit, you must indicate the month and year as well as the average hours worked per week for each employer or that experience will not be credited for meeting the specialized experience requirement.
GS-09: To qualify you must have at least 1 full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-07 level in the Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skill, and ability to perform successfully in this position. This experience may have been gained in a Non-Federal service position. In addition, this Specialized Experience must demonstrate the following:
- Responding to a variety of customer inquiries by providing information to internal and/or external customers;
- Performing legal research of regulations, laws, legal databases, etc. to obtain information or address issues/concerns; AND
- Reviewing loan or legal documents for compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines.
GS-11: To qualify you must have at least 1 full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-09 level in the Federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skill, and ability to perform successfully in this position. This experience may have been gained in a Non-Federal service position. In addition, this Specialized Experience must demonstrate the following:
- Responding to a variety of customer inquiries by providing information to internal and external customers;
- Performing legal research of regulations, laws, legal databases, etc. to obtain information or address issues/concerns;
- Reviewing loan or legal documents for compliance with applicable regulations and guidelines; AND
- Assisting borrowers with closing residential and/or business loans.
In addition to the above specialized experience for the GS-9 and GS-11 levels, applicants must indicate proficiency in utilizing Microsoft Office programs, such as Word and Excel on their resume.