Special Assistant Corporation Counsel-Criminal Prosecutor
Apply NowCompany: City of Indianapolis and Marion County, IN
Location: Bird In Hand, PA 17505
Description:
Salary : $80,683.00 - $88,898.00 Annually
Location : City County Building, IN
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 08170
Department: Office of Corporation Counsel
Opening Date: 02/09/2024
Closing Date: Continuous
Position Summary
The Office of Corporation Counsel (OCC) provides legal services to the City and County through its three main divisions. First, OCC represents the City, County agencies, and City-County employees in litigation, handling a diverse docket that ranges from tort and contract matters to constitutional law. Second, through its counseling division, OCC provides legal advice to City and County agencies, officials, and oversight bodies to ensure that public entities remain compliant with the law and standards of ethical conduct, to safeguard public funds, and to promote the efficient functioning of local government for Marion County taxpayers. OCC's third division is the Office of the City Prosecutor, which is responsible for enforcing City-County ordinances. OCC also oversees the Office of Equal Opportunity, which administers the City's human rights ordinance, protecting against discrimination in employment and other contexts. In exercising these crucial legal functions, OCC cultivates a productive, collaborative, and compliant work environment that prioritizes the needs of our clients and the residents of Indianapolis and Marion County.
The holder of this position will be detailed to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana (USAO) as a Special Assistant United States Attorney (SAUSA). In that position, the attorney will work exclusively within the Criminal Division of the USAO in Indianapolis and will investigate and prosecute serious violent crimes and/or gun crimes impacting Marion County. The position holder will be a full-time employee of the City of Indianapolis and will report to the Corporation Counsel. Funding for the position is available for up to two years, with the possibility of extension or of an offer of permanent employment in the Office of Corporation Counsel (OCC) or the USAO.
The City of Indianapolis Marion County is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We value diversity in perspectives and experiences among colleagues and the residents of this city of whom we serve.
Position Responsibilities
Upon designation as a SAUSA (subject to the conditions described below), the position holder will function in the role of a federal prosecutor, whose responsibility is to represent the United States in criminal prosecutions brought in federal court in the Southern District of Indiana. Pursuant to the memorandum of understanding between the City of Indianapolis and the USAO, each position holder will focus exclusively on the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes impacting Marion County. In particular, the attorney's caseload will focus on serious federal violent crimes, repeat violent offenders, violations of federal firearms statutes (particularly the illegal funneling of firearms into the hands of criminals), and unlawful use of the emerging firearms technologies that accelerate the danger of gun violence to the public.
In the role of SAUSA, the position holder will be responsible, under the day-to-day supervision of the USAO's leadership, to pursue federal cases from initial intake and grand jury investigation, through indictment, pretrial litigation, trial, and appeals. SAUSAs will work closely with federal, state, and local investigative agencies to help disrupt the most serious violent criminal threats facing Indianapolis. SAUSAs will advocate extensively, in writing and on their feet, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
While the full support resources of the USAO will be available to the position holder, the SAUSA position entails weighty personal responsibility from the outset of the appointment. SAUSAs will receive extensive training, exposure, and substantive experience in all stages of federal criminal cases-from the investigatory stage through appeal. The USAO will tailor training, mentorship, and development programs to fit the needs of each SAUSA as they join the office, and each SAUSA will be assigned a mentor assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA). SAUSAs will participate in USAO training, including in-house and remote training and trainings required by the Department of Justice. Where available and appropriate, SAUSAs may attend in-person DOJ training at the USAO's expense, including at the Department's National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.
The position holder will be required to develop and maintain proficiency in the federal rules of criminal procedure, the federal rules of evidence, substantive federal criminal law, and the constitutional and statutory provisions governing the investigation and litigation of criminal matters in the federal system.
The position holder will be held to the same high level of professional responsibility as all USAO and OCC attorneys.
The position holder, as an OCC employee, is accountable to the Corporation Counsel for the performance of his or her duties and is subject to the same terms and conditions of employment as those governing other OCC attorneys. The Corporation Counsel's evaluation of the attorney's performance will be informed by input from the attorney's day-to-day supervisors at the USAO.
The position holder may be required to report on a periodic basis to the Corporation Counsel and may be required to perform other duties as assigned by the Corporation Counsel, to the extent not inconsistent with the position holder's SAUSA responsibilities.
Qualifications
Minimum Job Requirements and Qualifications
Preferred Job Requirements and Qualifications
All rates are bi-weekly.
2023 Rate Sheet - To view our rate sheet, please copy and paste this link into your web browser: https://media.graphassets.com/fXBSN1Q7SQu0d2T9mmrA
Life Insurance Employee Only (rates per $1,000 per month):
Basic: Employer Paid
Optional Life Insurance Employee Only (rates per $1,000 per month)
Additional:
30-34 $0.075
35-39 $0.090
40-44 $0.120
45-49 $0.203
50-54 $0.330
55-59 $0.545
60-64 $0.723
65-69 $1.208
70 + $1.867
IMPORTANT PERF UPDATE:
*For more information on eligibility options, refer to Proposal 21-288 https://bit.ly/3exq8yR
1. All employees hired/rehired after 1/1/2022 have a choice to select the PERF Hybrid plan (3% + Pension) or the INPRS My Choice: Retirement Savings plan (3% + 1% Contribution). The Hybrid plan consists of two components:
Annuity Savings Account (ASA) -This consists of the mandatory employee contribution of three (3%) percent of compensation (made for the employee by the City), plus interest credits or earnings. You're always vested in your ASA portion - it's always yours.
Pension - The pension portion of the retirement benefit is funded by contributions made by the employer over the course of the employee's career and separate from the annuity savings account. Employees enrolled in the PERF Hybrid plan are eligible for retirement benefits at age sixty-five (65) if they have ten (10) or more years of creditable service. After June 30, 1995, employees may retire at age sixty (60) with at least fifteen (15) years of credible service or if the member's age in years plus the years of credible service equals at least 85 and the member is at least fifty-five (55) years of age. With fifteen (15) or more years of creditable service, the employee may retire as early as age fifty (50) with a reduced pension.
2. Employees hired/rehired by the City and County between 1/1/2017 and 12/31/2021 will be automatically enrolled in the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings plan. This plan is an annuity savings account (ASA) only plan and does not have a pension component. Any service that an employee has in the My Choice: Retirement Savings Plan will not count toward the service time requirements for pension eligibility in the Hybrid Plan.
With the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings Plan, the ASA is split up into two parts:
Part one - This consists of the mandatory employee contribution of three (3%) percent of compensation (made for the employee by the City), plus interest credits or earnings. You're always vested in your ASA portion - it's always yours.
Part two - This consists of an additional variable rate contribution paid by the City toward your ASA. This variable rate contribution is currently 1% of your gross wages. Vesting in the value of the variable rate employer contribution will vary by length of participation. You are:
20 percent vested after 1 full year of participation
40 percent vested after 2 full years of participation
60 percent vested after 3 full years of participation
80 percent vested after 4 full years of participation
100 percent vested after 5 full years of participation
3. All employees hired/rehired prior to 1/1/2017 are grandfathered into PERF Hybrid plan. The Hybrid plan consists of two components:
Annuity Savings Account (ASA) -This consists of the mandatory employee contribution of three (3%) percent of compensation (made for the employee by the City), plus interest credits or earnings. You're always vested in your ASA portion - it's always yours.
Pension - The pension portion of the retirement benefit is funded by contributions made by the employer over the course of the employee's career and separate from the annuity savings account. Employees enrolled in the PERF Hybrid plan are eligible for retirement benefits at age sixty-five (65) if they have ten (10) or more years of creditable service. After June 30, 1995, employees may retire at age sixty (60) with at least fifteen (15) years of credible service or if the member's age in years plus the years of credible service equals at least 85 and the member is at least fifty-five (55) years of age. With fifteen (15) or more years of creditable service, the employee may retire as early as age fifty (50) with a reduced pension.
4. City Employees hired/rehired between 1/1/2017 and 12/31/21 that are members of the City AFSCME labor union can choose to enroll in either the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings plan or the PERF Hybrid plan. Both plans are described above. Employees have 60 days to choose which option they want, and by state law this cannot be changed. If no choice is made, the employee will then be automatically added to the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings plan.
The Indiana General Assembly has enacted a provision that allows public employees to make voluntary contributions in addition to the mandatory three percent (3%) contributions. Employees may contribute up to an additional ten- percent (10%) of their compensation per pay period to the annuity savings account. This means that the maximum level of contributions to the annuity savings account under this new provision is thirteen percent (13%) of an employee's compensation per pay period.
Employees who separate from the city within their first ten (10) years of employment need to contact INPRS - PERF regarding their ASA account.
Questions relating to PERF may be directed to INPRS - PERF at:
Indiana Public Retirement System
Public Employees' Retirement Fund
One North Capitol, Suite 001
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
Location : City County Building, IN
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 08170
Department: Office of Corporation Counsel
Opening Date: 02/09/2024
Closing Date: Continuous
Position Summary
The Office of Corporation Counsel (OCC) provides legal services to the City and County through its three main divisions. First, OCC represents the City, County agencies, and City-County employees in litigation, handling a diverse docket that ranges from tort and contract matters to constitutional law. Second, through its counseling division, OCC provides legal advice to City and County agencies, officials, and oversight bodies to ensure that public entities remain compliant with the law and standards of ethical conduct, to safeguard public funds, and to promote the efficient functioning of local government for Marion County taxpayers. OCC's third division is the Office of the City Prosecutor, which is responsible for enforcing City-County ordinances. OCC also oversees the Office of Equal Opportunity, which administers the City's human rights ordinance, protecting against discrimination in employment and other contexts. In exercising these crucial legal functions, OCC cultivates a productive, collaborative, and compliant work environment that prioritizes the needs of our clients and the residents of Indianapolis and Marion County.
The holder of this position will be detailed to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana (USAO) as a Special Assistant United States Attorney (SAUSA). In that position, the attorney will work exclusively within the Criminal Division of the USAO in Indianapolis and will investigate and prosecute serious violent crimes and/or gun crimes impacting Marion County. The position holder will be a full-time employee of the City of Indianapolis and will report to the Corporation Counsel. Funding for the position is available for up to two years, with the possibility of extension or of an offer of permanent employment in the Office of Corporation Counsel (OCC) or the USAO.
The City of Indianapolis Marion County is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We value diversity in perspectives and experiences among colleagues and the residents of this city of whom we serve.
Position Responsibilities
Upon designation as a SAUSA (subject to the conditions described below), the position holder will function in the role of a federal prosecutor, whose responsibility is to represent the United States in criminal prosecutions brought in federal court in the Southern District of Indiana. Pursuant to the memorandum of understanding between the City of Indianapolis and the USAO, each position holder will focus exclusively on the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes impacting Marion County. In particular, the attorney's caseload will focus on serious federal violent crimes, repeat violent offenders, violations of federal firearms statutes (particularly the illegal funneling of firearms into the hands of criminals), and unlawful use of the emerging firearms technologies that accelerate the danger of gun violence to the public.
In the role of SAUSA, the position holder will be responsible, under the day-to-day supervision of the USAO's leadership, to pursue federal cases from initial intake and grand jury investigation, through indictment, pretrial litigation, trial, and appeals. SAUSAs will work closely with federal, state, and local investigative agencies to help disrupt the most serious violent criminal threats facing Indianapolis. SAUSAs will advocate extensively, in writing and on their feet, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
While the full support resources of the USAO will be available to the position holder, the SAUSA position entails weighty personal responsibility from the outset of the appointment. SAUSAs will receive extensive training, exposure, and substantive experience in all stages of federal criminal cases-from the investigatory stage through appeal. The USAO will tailor training, mentorship, and development programs to fit the needs of each SAUSA as they join the office, and each SAUSA will be assigned a mentor assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA). SAUSAs will participate in USAO training, including in-house and remote training and trainings required by the Department of Justice. Where available and appropriate, SAUSAs may attend in-person DOJ training at the USAO's expense, including at the Department's National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.
The position holder will be required to develop and maintain proficiency in the federal rules of criminal procedure, the federal rules of evidence, substantive federal criminal law, and the constitutional and statutory provisions governing the investigation and litigation of criminal matters in the federal system.
The position holder will be held to the same high level of professional responsibility as all USAO and OCC attorneys.
The position holder, as an OCC employee, is accountable to the Corporation Counsel for the performance of his or her duties and is subject to the same terms and conditions of employment as those governing other OCC attorneys. The Corporation Counsel's evaluation of the attorney's performance will be informed by input from the attorney's day-to-day supervisors at the USAO.
The position holder may be required to report on a periodic basis to the Corporation Counsel and may be required to perform other duties as assigned by the Corporation Counsel, to the extent not inconsistent with the position holder's SAUSA responsibilities.
Qualifications
Minimum Job Requirements and Qualifications
- Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Valid license to practice law in Indiana.
- Proficiency in legal writing and research.
- At least three years' experience in the practice of law as a licensed attorney (may include a judicial clerkship).
Preferred Job Requirements and Qualifications
- Five or more years' experience as a practicing attorney.
- Three or more years' practice experience in litigation.
- Practice experience in criminal law.
- Practice experience in federal court.
All rates are bi-weekly.
2023 Rate Sheet - To view our rate sheet, please copy and paste this link into your web browser: https://media.graphassets.com/fXBSN1Q7SQu0d2T9mmrA
Life Insurance Employee Only (rates per $1,000 per month):
Basic: Employer Paid
Optional Life Insurance Employee Only (rates per $1,000 per month)
Additional:
30-34 $0.075
35-39 $0.090
40-44 $0.120
45-49 $0.203
50-54 $0.330
55-59 $0.545
60-64 $0.723
65-69 $1.208
70 + $1.867
IMPORTANT PERF UPDATE:
*For more information on eligibility options, refer to Proposal 21-288 https://bit.ly/3exq8yR
1. All employees hired/rehired after 1/1/2022 have a choice to select the PERF Hybrid plan (3% + Pension) or the INPRS My Choice: Retirement Savings plan (3% + 1% Contribution). The Hybrid plan consists of two components:
Annuity Savings Account (ASA) -This consists of the mandatory employee contribution of three (3%) percent of compensation (made for the employee by the City), plus interest credits or earnings. You're always vested in your ASA portion - it's always yours.
Pension - The pension portion of the retirement benefit is funded by contributions made by the employer over the course of the employee's career and separate from the annuity savings account. Employees enrolled in the PERF Hybrid plan are eligible for retirement benefits at age sixty-five (65) if they have ten (10) or more years of creditable service. After June 30, 1995, employees may retire at age sixty (60) with at least fifteen (15) years of credible service or if the member's age in years plus the years of credible service equals at least 85 and the member is at least fifty-five (55) years of age. With fifteen (15) or more years of creditable service, the employee may retire as early as age fifty (50) with a reduced pension.
2. Employees hired/rehired by the City and County between 1/1/2017 and 12/31/2021 will be automatically enrolled in the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings plan. This plan is an annuity savings account (ASA) only plan and does not have a pension component. Any service that an employee has in the My Choice: Retirement Savings Plan will not count toward the service time requirements for pension eligibility in the Hybrid Plan.
With the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings Plan, the ASA is split up into two parts:
Part one - This consists of the mandatory employee contribution of three (3%) percent of compensation (made for the employee by the City), plus interest credits or earnings. You're always vested in your ASA portion - it's always yours.
Part two - This consists of an additional variable rate contribution paid by the City toward your ASA. This variable rate contribution is currently 1% of your gross wages. Vesting in the value of the variable rate employer contribution will vary by length of participation. You are:
20 percent vested after 1 full year of participation
40 percent vested after 2 full years of participation
60 percent vested after 3 full years of participation
80 percent vested after 4 full years of participation
100 percent vested after 5 full years of participation
3. All employees hired/rehired prior to 1/1/2017 are grandfathered into PERF Hybrid plan. The Hybrid plan consists of two components:
Annuity Savings Account (ASA) -This consists of the mandatory employee contribution of three (3%) percent of compensation (made for the employee by the City), plus interest credits or earnings. You're always vested in your ASA portion - it's always yours.
Pension - The pension portion of the retirement benefit is funded by contributions made by the employer over the course of the employee's career and separate from the annuity savings account. Employees enrolled in the PERF Hybrid plan are eligible for retirement benefits at age sixty-five (65) if they have ten (10) or more years of creditable service. After June 30, 1995, employees may retire at age sixty (60) with at least fifteen (15) years of credible service or if the member's age in years plus the years of credible service equals at least 85 and the member is at least fifty-five (55) years of age. With fifteen (15) or more years of creditable service, the employee may retire as early as age fifty (50) with a reduced pension.
4. City Employees hired/rehired between 1/1/2017 and 12/31/21 that are members of the City AFSCME labor union can choose to enroll in either the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings plan or the PERF Hybrid plan. Both plans are described above. Employees have 60 days to choose which option they want, and by state law this cannot be changed. If no choice is made, the employee will then be automatically added to the PERF My Choice: Retirement Savings plan.
The Indiana General Assembly has enacted a provision that allows public employees to make voluntary contributions in addition to the mandatory three percent (3%) contributions. Employees may contribute up to an additional ten- percent (10%) of their compensation per pay period to the annuity savings account. This means that the maximum level of contributions to the annuity savings account under this new provision is thirteen percent (13%) of an employee's compensation per pay period.
Employees who separate from the city within their first ten (10) years of employment need to contact INPRS - PERF regarding their ASA account.
Questions relating to PERF may be directed to INPRS - PERF at:
Indiana Public Retirement System
Public Employees' Retirement Fund
One North Capitol, Suite 001
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204