Jobs, jobs, jobs: Seventh Heaven?

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Homeland Sec./HQ, GS 7-9, Wash., DC, closes 6/18/26 (non-public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Homeland Sec./HQ, GS 7-9, Wash., DC, closes 6/18/26 (public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of the Treasury/OFAC, GS 14, Wash., DC, closes 6/18/26 (public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 12, Alexandria, LA, closes 6/22/26 (internal agency).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 12, Philadelphia, PA, closes 6/22/26 (internal agency).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Transp./FAA, FG 12-13, closes 7/2/26 (internal agency).

Trial Att’y (FOIA Counsel), Dep’t of Justice/USTP, GS 14-15, Wash., DC, closes 7/14/26 (public).

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Filling the swamp

• Sup. Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Commerce/HQ, ZA 5, Wash., DC, closes 6/11/26 (non-public).

• Sup. Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Commerce/HQ, ZA 5, Wash., DC, closes 6/11/26 (public).

• Privacy/FOIA Officer, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 12, Wash., DC, closes 6/12/26 (non-public).

• Gen. Att’y, U.S. Patent & Trade Office, GS 15, Alexandria, VA, closes 6/25/26 (public).

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Take Five

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 11, Tucson, AZ, closes 6/1/26 (internal only).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 11-12, White City, OR, closes 6/3/26 (non-public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Def. Nuclear Facilities Safety Bd., GS 13-14, Wash., DC, closes 6/5/26 (non-public).

Att’y-Adviser, Dep’t of Justice/OIP, GS 12-15, Wash., DC, closes 6/5/26 (public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Justice/OIP, GS 14, Wash., DC, closes 6/10/26 (non-public).

And enjoy the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Take Five” jazz standard.

Jobs, jobs, jobs: The DMV hat trick

Att’y-Advisor, Nat’l Labor Relations Bd., GS 12, Wash. DC, closes 5/27/26 (public).

Gov’t Info Specialist, Dep’t of the Army, GG 12, Fort Meade, MD, closes 5/27.26 (non-public).

Sup. Att’y Advisor, Dep’t of Justice/EOIR, GS 15, Falls Church, VA, closes 6/2/26 (public).

Job, jobs, jobs: Come fly with me, let's fly away

Att’y-Adviser, Nat’l Labor Relations Bd., GS 12, Wash., DC, closes 5/26/26 (public).

Mgmt. & Program Analyst, Dep’t of Transp./FAA, FG 13, Ft. Worth, TX, closes 6/9/26 (internal only).

[Bonus track from Frank Sinatra]

Jobs, jobs, jobs: . . . And Justice for All

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Def./Sec’y, GS 14, Alexandria, VA, closes 5/13/26 (non-public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of the Air Force, Maxwell AFB, AL, closes 5/15/26 (non-public).

Sup. Att’y-Advisor, Dep’t of Justice/OIP, GS 15, Wash., DC, closes 5/24/26 (public).

Att’y Advisor, Dep’t of Justice/OPR, GS 14-15, Wash., DC, closes 6/2/26 (public).

Att’y-Advisor, Dep’t of Justice/OIP, GS 13-14, Wash., DC, closes 6/5/26 (public).

Jobs, jobs, jobs: On cloud nine

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Def./Sec’y, GS 14, Alexandria, VA, closes 5/8/26 (non-public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of the Navy, GS 12, Wash., DC, closes 5/8/26 (non-public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 11-12, Palo Alto, CA, closes 5/11/26 (non-public).

Gen. Att’y, Dep’t of Health & Human Serv./OIG, GS 13-15, Wash., DC, closes 5/11/26 (public).

Sup. Gen. Att’y, Dep’t of Labor/SOL, GS 15, Wash., DC, closes 5/19/26 (public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Court Serv. & Offender Supervision Agency for DC, GS 14, Wash., DC, closes 5/19/26 (non-public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Court Serv. & Offender Supervision Agency for DC, GS 14, Wash., DC, closes 5/19/26 (public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Transp./FAA, FG 12-13, nationwide location, closes 5/22/26 (internal agency).

Att’y-Advisor, Dep’t of Homeland Sec./HQ, GS 13-15, Wash., DC, closes 5/26/26 (public).

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Let the sunshine in

FOIA Ass’t, Dep’t of Homeland Sec./CBP, GS 5, Wash., DC, closes 5/6/26 (public).

Sunshine Week contractor, Brechner Freedom of Info. Proj., $3k weekly, Wash, DC area preferred, open until filled.

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Fight over “optional” application essays

Federal job applicants can’t skip ‘loyalty question’ that OPM says is optional, court filings claim

OPM says it’s optional for job candidates to answer the essays and that they won’t be disqualified from consideration if they skip them.

By Jory Heckman Fed. News Network, Apr. 28, 2026

This story was updated at 3:52 p.m. on April 28 to include comments from an OPM official

New essay questions on many federal job applications, asking candidates how they would advance the Trump administration’s policies, are optional, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

But new documents submitted in a lawsuit seeking the removal of these essays show that job candidates, in some cases, can’t submit their online job applications if they leave the fields for essay responses blank.

One of several essay questions, outlined under the Trump administration’s Merit Hiring Plan, asks candidates how they would “advance the president’s executive orders and policy priorities,” to name “one or two executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you,” and how they would help implement them if hired.

Read more here.

Jobs, jobs, jobs: Four your eyes only

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 12, New Orleans, LA, closes 5/1/26 (non-public).

Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of Veterans Affairs/VHA, GS 12, Fairfield, CA, closes 5/5/26 (internal to agency).

FOIA Attorney-Adviser, Sec. & Exch. Comm’n, SK 14, Wash., DC, closes 5/8/26 (public).

Lead Gov’t Info. Specialist, Dep’t of State, GS 14, Wash., DC, closes 5/8/26 (non-public).