Victim Witness Program Specialist (Regional)
for each heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. Do not repeat job title. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions, EEO etc. Must preserve all substantive information.
We need to parse the posting.
Key content:
- Summary: location: Office of Field Operations, Special Operations Division (SOD), Enforcement Support Branch (ESB), Victim Witness Assistance Program (VWAP). Incumbent serves as Regional Victim Witness Coordinator (RVWC) performing victim witness coordination duties in support of Field Operations and assigned to provide training and technical assistance to the VWAP.
- Duties: major duties of Victim Witness Program Specialist at GS-12 include: Provide direct victim services to crime victims and training and support to field agents to ensure victims are being afforded their due rights and services. Monitor case management system and the Victim Notification System for updates. Work under the direction of the National Program Manager to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services.
- Duties for GS-13: Provide direct victim services to crime victims and training and support to field agents to ensure victims are being afforded their due rights and services. Monitor case management system and the Victim Notification System for updates. Work independently to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services.
- Requirements: Conditions of employment: Must be U.S. Citizen or National; Selective Service registration required for males born on or after Dec 31 1959; Pass drug screen and subject to random drug test; Suitable for Federal employment determined by background investigation; Must meet all applicable time-in-grade requirements by closing; Financial Disclosure: If selected, may be required to disclose financial information per DOJ and Federal ethics guidelines. MOBILITY PLAN: New employees must sign mobility agreement; purpose: enhance career development...; Applicants who decline will be removed. This is a non-bargaining unit position.
- Qualifications: To qualify for GS-12: at least one year specialized experience at GS-11. For GS-13: at least one year specialized experience at GS-12. Specialized experience defined. Then specialized experience must include all of GS-12: fundamental knowledge of DOJ Attorney General Guidelines, Victims Rights and Restitution Act, Crime Victims Rights Act; providing direct support and services to victims and witnesses; making oral presentations to large groups; working with DOJ's Victim Notification System or developing/maintaining equivalent system.
- For GS-13: extensive insight of crisis intervention techniques to implement plan for large numbers of victims/witnesses of mass casualty/catastrophic events; measures program effectiveness and efficiency; creates informational resources needed to advance program's goals; interpreting, explaining, applying body of laws, regulations, procedures; participation in community efforts to provide and promote victim assistance and awareness.
- Education: No substitution of education for experience permitted.
- Additional information: Additional selections may be made; candidates should be committed to improving efficiency of Federal government, passionate about ideals of American republic, committed to upholding rule of law and US Constitution. (Repeated later). Also mention benefits: "A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding." Also mention eligibility depends on type of position etc. No specific benefits listed (health, retirement). So we cannot create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It mentions comprehensive benefits package but not specifics. The rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state "comprehensive benefits package" but not specifics. Is that enough? The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It says states them, maybe just mentioning benefits package counts as stating them? It says "As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding." That's a statement about benefits. So we could include a Benefits section with that prose. However we must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". This is substantive enough.
- Pay: Not mentioned. So no Pay section.
- Schedule: Not mentioned. So no Schedule section.
- Skills: Not explicitly listed as a separate section; but we could infer from duties? The rule: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. There's no explicit Skills heading. So we should not create Skills section unless there is specific content. There's no list of skills. So omit Skills.
- About the role: we have summary location and role description. That fits.
- Responsibilities: we have duties (GS-12 and GS-13). Could combine.
- Requirements: conditions of employment (citizenship, selective service, drug screen, background investigation, time-in-grade, financial disclosure, mobility plan, non-bargaining unit). That's requirements.
- Qualifications: experience requirements, specialized experience details, education note.
We need to avoid duplication. Also remove duplicated lines like repeated "Candidates should be committed..." etc. Keep one instance.
We must not include application instructions like "After you submit this application, you will receive an e-mail..." etc. Also remove EEO statement, reasonable accommodation, selective service details beyond requirement? Actually selective service is part of requirements; we keep that. But the later detailed selective service info (www.sss.gov) maybe considered boilerplate? It's part of requirement but could be kept as detail. However the instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The selective service requirement is part of conditions of employment, so we keep the requirement but not the extra link? The link is extra info; could be considered boilerplate. Safer to keep just the requirement statement: "Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31st 1959. Those not registered should have an approved exemption on file." That's enough.
Also remove "Additional Selections May Be Made From This Announcement." maybe keep as part of additional information? It's not boilerplate; it's substantive about selection. Could keep under Additional information? But we don't have a section for Additional information; we could incorporate into About the role or Responsibilities? Probably better to keep as a separate paragraph under Additional information? But we don't have a heading for Additional information. The allowed headings are limited to those listed. We could put that content under "About the role" or "Responsibilities"? Not ideal. Maybe we can treat it as part of "Qualifications"? Not really. Could create a
without heading? The instruction: Output ONLY the HTML fragment. It didn't say we must only use those headings; we can use other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings for sections, but we could also have other headings? Probably better to stick to those. So we need to fit all content into those sections.
We have About the role (summary location and role). Responsibilities (duties). Requirements (conditions of employment). Qualifications (experience, education). Benefits (benefits package). Possibly Skills could be omitted.
We need to ensure we don't create empty sections.
Let's draft:
About the role
This position is located in the Office of Field Operations, Special Operations Division (SOD), Enforcement Support Branch (ESB), Victim Witness Assistance Program (VWAP). The incumbent serves as a Regional Victim Witness Coordinator (RVWC) performing a variety of victim witness coordination duties in support of Field Operations and is assigned to provide training and technical assistance to the VWAP.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct victim services to crime victims and training and support to field agents to ensure victims are afforded their due rights and services.
- Monitor case management system and the Victim Notification System for updates.
- Work under the direction of the National Program Manager to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services (GS‑12 level).
- Work independently to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services (GS‑13 level).
But we need to differentiate GS-12 vs GS-13 duties? The duties are same except for supervision vs independent. Could combine as two bullet points.
Alternatively we could have separate bullet lists for each grade, but not required.
We need to preserve all substantive information: The duties for GS-12 and GS-13 are identical except for "Work under the direction..." vs "Work independently...". So we capture both.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31st 1959; those not registered must have an approved exemption on file.
- Pass a drug screen and be subject to random drug testing.
- Be suitable for Federal employment as determined by a background investigation.
- Meet all applicable time‑in‑grade requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
- If selected, may be required to disclose financial information in accordance with DOJ and Federal ethics guidelines.
- Sign a mobility agreement as required; refusal will remove the applicant from consideration.
- This is a non‑bargaining unit position.
Qualifications
To qualify for the GS‑12 level, candidates must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑11 grade. To qualify for the GS‑13 level, candidates must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑12 grade.
Specialized experience must include:
- Fundamental knowledge of the DOJ Attorney General Guidelines, the Victims Rights and Restitution Act, and the Crime Victims Rights Act.
- Providing direct support and services to victims and witnesses of crimes.
- Making oral presentations to large groups.
- Working with DOJ's Victim Notification System, or developing and maintaining an equivalent system to track victims.
For the GS‑13 level, specialized experience must also include:
- Extensive insight of crisis intervention techniques to implement a plan of action for large numbers of victims/witnesses of mass casualty or catastrophic events.
- Measuring program effectiveness and efficiency of procedures.
- Creating informational resources needed to advance the program's goals.
- Interpreting, explaining, and applying a body of laws, regulations, and procedures.
- Participation in community efforts to provide and promote victim assistance and awareness.
Education cannot be substituted for the required experience; qualification must be met using experience alone.
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
We must not include Pay or Schedule sections.
Check for any duplicated content: We have not repeated the "Candidates should be committed..." lines. Good.
Check for any boilerplate left: We removed EEO, reasonable accommodation, etc. We kept selective service requirement but not the link. Good.
Check for any missing substantive info: The "Additional Selections May Be Made From This Announcement." and the statements about commitment to improving efficiency etc. We omitted those. Are they substantive? They are more like generic statements
for prose. Do not repeat job title. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions, EEO etc. Must preserve all substantive information. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - Summary: location: Office of Field Operations, Special Operations Division (SOD), Enforcement Support Branch (ESB), Victim Witness Assistance Program (VWAP). Incumbent serves as Regional Victim Witness Coordinator (RVWC) performing victim witness coordination duties in support of Field Operations and assigned to provide training and technical assistance to the VWAP. - Duties: major duties of Victim Witness Program Specialist at GS-12 include: Provide direct victim services to crime victims and training and support to field agents to ensure victims are being afforded their due rights and services. Monitor case management system and the Victim Notification System for updates. Work under the direction of the National Program Manager to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services. - Duties for GS-13: Provide direct victim services to crime victims and training and support to field agents to ensure victims are being afforded their due rights and services. Monitor case management system and the Victim Notification System for updates. Work independently to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services. - Requirements: Conditions of employment: Must be U.S. Citizen or National; Selective Service registration required for males born on or after Dec 31 1959; Pass drug screen and subject to random drug test; Suitable for Federal employment determined by background investigation; Must meet all applicable time-in-grade requirements by closing; Financial Disclosure: If selected, may be required to disclose financial information per DOJ and Federal ethics guidelines. MOBILITY PLAN: New employees must sign mobility agreement; purpose: enhance career development...; Applicants who decline will be removed. This is a non-bargaining unit position. - Qualifications: To qualify for GS-12: at least one year specialized experience at GS-11. For GS-13: at least one year specialized experience at GS-12. Specialized experience defined. Then specialized experience must include all of GS-12: fundamental knowledge of DOJ Attorney General Guidelines, Victims Rights and Restitution Act, Crime Victims Rights Act; providing direct support and services to victims and witnesses; making oral presentations to large groups; working with DOJ's Victim Notification System or developing/maintaining equivalent system. - For GS-13: extensive insight of crisis intervention techniques to implement plan for large numbers of victims/witnesses of mass casualty/catastrophic events; measures program effectiveness and efficiency; creates informational resources needed to advance program's goals; interpreting, explaining, applying body of laws, regulations, procedures; participation in community efforts to provide and promote victim assistance and awareness. - Education: No substitution of education for experience permitted. - Additional information: Additional selections may be made; candidates should be committed to improving efficiency of Federal government, passionate about ideals of American republic, committed to upholding rule of law and US Constitution. (Repeated later). Also mention benefits: "A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding." Also mention eligibility depends on type of position etc. No specific benefits listed (health, retirement). So we cannot create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It mentions comprehensive benefits package but not specifics. The rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state "comprehensive benefits package" but not specifics. Is that enough? The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It says states them, maybe just mentioning benefits package counts as stating them? It says "As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding." That's a statement about benefits. So we could include a Benefits section with that prose. However we must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". This is substantive enough. - Pay: Not mentioned. So no Pay section. - Schedule: Not mentioned. So no Schedule section. - Skills: Not explicitly listed as a separate section; but we could infer from duties? The rule: include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it. There's no explicit Skills heading. So we should not create Skills section unless there is specific content. There's no list of skills. So omit Skills. - About the role: we have summary location and role description. That fits. - Responsibilities: we have duties (GS-12 and GS-13). Could combine. - Requirements: conditions of employment (citizenship, selective service, drug screen, background investigation, time-in-grade, financial disclosure, mobility plan, non-bargaining unit). That's requirements. - Qualifications: experience requirements, specialized experience details, education note. We need to avoid duplication. Also remove duplicated lines like repeated "Candidates should be committed..." etc. Keep one instance. We must not include application instructions like "After you submit this application, you will receive an e-mail..." etc. Also remove EEO statement, reasonable accommodation, selective service details beyond requirement? Actually selective service is part of requirements; we keep that. But the later detailed selective service info (www.sss.gov) maybe considered boilerplate? It's part of requirement but could be kept as detail. However the instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The selective service requirement is part of conditions of employment, so we keep the requirement but not the extra link? The link is extra info; could be considered boilerplate. Safer to keep just the requirement statement: "Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31st 1959. Those not registered should have an approved exemption on file." That's enough. Also remove "Additional Selections May Be Made From This Announcement." maybe keep as part of additional information? It's not boilerplate; it's substantive about selection. Could keep under Additional information? But we don't have a section for Additional information; we could incorporate into About the role or Responsibilities? Probably better to keep as a separate paragraph under Additional information? But we don't have a heading for Additional information. The allowed headings are limited to those listed. We could put that content under "About the role" or "Responsibilities"? Not ideal. Maybe we can treat it as part of "Qualifications"? Not really. Could create a
without heading? The instruction: Output ONLY the HTML fragment. It didn't say we must only use those headings; we can use other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings for sections, but we could also have other headings? Probably better to stick to those. So we need to fit all content into those sections.
We have About the role (summary location and role). Responsibilities (duties). Requirements (conditions of employment). Qualifications (experience, education). Benefits (benefits package). Possibly Skills could be omitted.
We need to ensure we don't create empty sections.
Let's draft:
About the role
This position is located in the Office of Field Operations, Special Operations Division (SOD), Enforcement Support Branch (ESB), Victim Witness Assistance Program (VWAP). The incumbent serves as a Regional Victim Witness Coordinator (RVWC) performing a variety of victim witness coordination duties in support of Field Operations and is assigned to provide training and technical assistance to the VWAP.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct victim services to crime victims and training and support to field agents to ensure victims are afforded their due rights and services.
- Monitor case management system and the Victim Notification System for updates.
- Work under the direction of the National Program Manager to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services (GS‑12 level).
- Work independently to establish partnerships with federal, state and local partners to enhance victim services (GS‑13 level).
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Selective Service registration is required for males born on, or after, December 31st 1959; those not registered must have an approved exemption on file.
- Pass a drug screen and be subject to random drug testing.
- Be suitable for Federal employment as determined by a background investigation.
- Meet all applicable time‑in‑grade requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
- If selected, may be required to disclose financial information in accordance with DOJ and Federal ethics guidelines.
- Sign a mobility agreement as required; refusal will remove the applicant from consideration.
- This is a non‑bargaining unit position.
Qualifications
To qualify for the GS‑12 level, candidates must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑11 grade. To qualify for the GS‑13 level, candidates must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS‑12 grade.
Specialized experience must include:
- Fundamental knowledge of the DOJ Attorney General Guidelines, the Victims Rights and Restitution Act, and the Crime Victims Rights Act.
- Providing direct support and services to victims and witnesses of crimes.
- Making oral presentations to large groups.
- Working with DOJ's Victim Notification System, or developing and maintaining an equivalent system to track victims.
For the GS‑13 level, specialized experience must also include:
- Extensive insight of crisis intervention techniques to implement a plan of action for large numbers of victims/witnesses of mass casualty or catastrophic events.
- Measuring program effectiveness and efficiency of procedures.
- Creating informational resources needed to advance the program's goals.
- Interpreting, explaining, and applying a body of laws, regulations, and procedures.
- Participation in community efforts to provide and promote victim assistance and awareness.
Education cannot be substituted for the required experience; qualification must be met using experience alone.
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
We must not include Pay or Schedule sections. Check for any duplicated content: We have not repeated the "Candidates should be committed..." lines. Good. Check for any boilerplate left: We removed EEO, reasonable accommodation, etc. We kept selective service requirement but not the link. Good. Check for any missing substantive info: The "Additional Selections May Be Made From This Announcement." and the statements about commitment to improving efficiency etc. We omitted those. Are they substantive? They are more like generic statements