Attorney Advisor Energy & Minerals team

The Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), within the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of General Counsel, is hiring attorneys across multiple regional and topical teams! This position post is for multiple attorney positions on the Energy & Minerals team. The team will be hiring for vacancies in both for the minerals and power sector portfolios.

CLDP's mission is to advance U.S. business interests and national security objectives around the world by building commercial legal systems that support American and local businesses alike. To meet its mission, CLDP provides technical assistance; advisory and consultative services (including commenting on draft legislation and regulations); and sector planning support to improve the legal and regulatory conditions for trade and investment.

You must be a U.S. citizen and a member of a U.S. State or Territory Bar in good standing to apply. Accepting applications on a rolling basis through 2/13.

To apply, please send an email with a resume, cover letter, and law school unofficial transcript to kweaver.

Prior legal experience in the minerals sector, including mining, energy, and/or related infrastructure and supply chain, or other related industrial sectors. In this position, the Attorney-Advisor will be expected to be able to converse with a variety of stakeholders on the legal and regulatory frameworks governing the full life cycle of minerals, including investment and project finance, exploration, exploitation, mining operations, tailings management, mine closure, brownfield development, transportation, and processing.

Prior legal experience in natural resource extraction relating to enforcement, permitting/licensing, insolvency, arbitration, project finance, and/or energy and minerals taxation. Prior legal experience with the administration, drafting, interpretation, and/or enforcement of legal, regulatory, and/or transactional documents in the mining sector, such as: mining codes, mining regulations, mining investment agreements and other government instruments, mineral concessions and contracts, or mining project finance documents.

Legal experience in the energy / power sectors also welcome. Prior experience and/or familiarity with working with foreign governments and/or development finance institutions is strongly preferred. Regular international travel will be required, averaging around 6-8 trips per year, to global and occasionally domestic destinations. CLDP Attorney-Advisors in this position carry out many of their programs in the host countries around the world, and also bring delegations to the U.S. for study tours.

Knowledge of another language is not required but is preferred.

Prior legal experience in the energy sector, most helpfully power generation and transmission. In this position, the Attorney-Advisor will be expected to be able to converse with a variety of stakeholders on the structuring of rules relating to investment into power and energy, including generation, storage, and transmission infrastructure projects. Prior experience with the drafting or review of transactional documents in the energy sector, in particular the power sector.

Examples include power purchase agreements, PILOT agreements, ROWs for transmission, utility franchise agreements, host government instruments in the power, energy or other related sectors as well as project finance documents. Prior experience and/or familiarity with working with foreign governments and/or development finance institutions is strongly preferred. Regular international travel will be required, averaging around 6-8 trips per year, to global and occasionally domestic destinations.

CLDP Attorney-Advisors in this position carry out many of their programs in the host countries around the world, and also bring delegations to the U.S. for study tours.

Knowledge of another language is not required but is preferred.

Positions are based in Washington D.C. and will be filled at the GS 13 or 14 grade level depending on experience. Promotion potential is up to GS 14/10.

If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the
* job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application.

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* however, you must be U.S. citizen and a member of a U.S. State or Territory Bar in good standing to apply)