Legislative Specialist

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA) is seeking an experienced professional Legislative Specialist to join its team. OLA performs the federal judiciary's legislative liaison activities with Congress, other governmental entities, and private sector organizations with an interest in legislation and other activity affecting the judicial branch.

The Legislative Specialist identifies, monitors, and tracks legislation of importance to the judiciary and performs preliminary analysis of proposed legislation to determine its impact. The Legislative Specialist also provides a wide range of legislative, legal, program, and administrative support services to OLA attorneys; identifies and provides preliminary analysis of laws, agency documents, press articles, and other legislative and media materials; and performs a host of activities essential to judicial and congressional information management.

The incumbent must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills; apply knowledge and previous experience with congressional and judicial operations to all tasks; and prioritize multiple assignments and work effectively in a fast-paced, high priority, deadline-driven environment. As needed, the incumbent may need to work beyond core office hours to support OLA's response to impromptu congressional developments that occur late in the workday. This position reports to OLA's Supervisory Administrative Analyst.

The duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

1. Preparing a daily summary of items of interest from the Congressional Record for judiciary-wide distribution.
2. Analyzing the impact of legislative proposals on the judiciary and performing legislative research using online research tools such as Congress.gov, LexisNexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg, and Congressional Quarterly (CQ).
3. Evaluating and maintaining congressional materials (e.g., House/Senate bills, hearings, testimony, etc.) of judicial relevance and importance.
4. Conducting and summarizing legislative and legal research, including searching for and extracting information from reports, publications, recordings, and other materials.
5. Compiling and organizing correspondence, bills, memoranda, and other related materials to create legislative histories.
6. Attending or monitoring Congressional hearings and markups and providing written and oral reports of proceedings.
7. Partnering with OLA attorneys and AO leadership to prepare federal judiciary witnesses for testimony during congressional committee hearings.
8. Designing and maintaining databases and repositories, such as web pages and SharePoint sites, to organize and store policy, legislative, and strategy information.
9. Developing and maintaining working relationships with staff of the AO, the federal courts, congressional committees, and key agencies in the executive branch.
10. Composing and reviewing complex and/or sensitive AO and OLA correspondence or other written materials.
11. Performing administrative tasks, including receiving telephone calls and visitors and making appropriate referrals, preparing and formatting letters, and memoranda, and reviewing and distributing incoming mail.