This position is part of DFAS's Pathways Program, for current students/individuals accepted for enrollment in a qualifying educational program in an accredited institution, full or half-time basis. This is a PAID summer internship, running May - August. Applicants who indicate they meet the minimum qualifications will receive an email from assessments@USAHire.opm.gov to complete online assessments. Check your "Spam"/"Junk" folders. See below for more information!
What you'd do
- Assignments include developmental experiences to prepare the incumbent for increasingly more complex work in the General Counsel arena. Assignments may be supplemented by on-the-job and/or formal training in the occupation.
- Independently plan, organize, and conduct studies of legal issues and cases generally encountered in the assigned area.
- Performs research on assignments from the Directorates Deputy General Counsel (DGC) and Assistant DGC by examining legal documents, historical files, and other legal resources on inquiries relating to a myriad of legal subjects.
- Examination is to evaluate the procedural and technical sufficiency of the action or legal matter; and, to evaluate factual and other information presented.
- Drafts and edits legal and non-legal memoranda, research reports, and correspondence.
What they want
- GS-07: Substitution of Education for Experience: One full year of graduate level education may be substituted to meet the specialized experience requirement.
- Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate level education and experience may be used to meet total experience requirements.
- If you are using education to substitute for the specialized experience, you must submit transcripts
- Starts
- 2026-09-08