Senior eDiscovery Technician

Jobtailor; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Part time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a contract eDiscovery professional in the Chantilly, VA area to support the government agency with processing, loading, and validating productions in Relativity.

The role requires three years of eDiscovery experience, knowledge of governmental software policies, and U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Strong written and oral communication and the capacity to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines are essential.

Qualifications

• Three years of eDiscovery experience in compiling, analyzing, and synthesizing information.
• Bachelor’s degree; three years of additional relevant work experience may substitute for the degree.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Experience with Government software policies and procedures; client-facing communication.
• Federal Agency issued security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Log the production in the Agency's eDiscovery Tracking System.
• Digest the cover letter and provide a brief description of the production.
• Call the producing party to obtain a password if encrypted with no password.
• Determine if the cover letter contains substantive information for loading into Relativity.

Skills

eDiscovery

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Communication

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Relativity

FTP

OCR

Virus scanning software

Job description

• Log the production in the Agency's eDiscovery Tracking System.
• Digest the cover letter (which may be several pages long) and provide a brief description of the production.
• If the media received is encrypted and no password is provided, the contractor shall call the producing party to obtain the password.
• Determine if the cover letter contains substantive information that would qualify it for loading into Relativity.
• Virus scan the production off-network, using multiple virus protection software and other tools.
• If issues are detected, the contractor shall follow protocol to either address the issue or reject the production.
• Once the production is determined to be “clean” of viruses, the contractor shall copy the production to the Agency's network.
• Follow specific protocol and procedures when handling various types of documents, such as whistleblower, RFPA (Request for Financial Privacy Act), documents received through MOUs (Memorandums of Understanding), International documents, BSA (Bank Secrecy Act) documents, audio files, transcripts, laptops or paper.
• Analyze the productions to determine what type of processing is required of them, and which protocol to follow.
• Analyze the data to ensure its completeness.
• If the data is “load ready”, inspect it to ensure that all components are present. If incomplete, communicate the issue to the Litigation Support Specialist assigned to that matter.
• Monitor for incoming productions arriving via email.
• Monitor the Agency's FTP site for productions being delivered via FTP.
• Scan and OCR small amounts of paper documents in preparation for loading into Relativity.
• If a production contains multiple boxes of paper, the contractor shall coordinate having the documents scanned off-site.

Requirements

• Three years of eDiscovery technical experience in compiling, analyzing, and synthesizing information to support project task requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree. Three years of additional, directly relevant work experience (over and above the minimum experience requirements for this position) may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree.
• Knowledge of information resources.
• Excellent analytical capabilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to consistently deliver the highest quality work under extreme pressure and tight deadlines.
• Experience in managing multiple tasks such as those defined in the Duties & Responsibilities above must be demonstrated.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Experience with Government software policies and procedures
• Client-facing communication experience
• Federal Agency issued security clearance