Realty Specialist

Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.

Promotion to the full performance level is neither guaranteed nor implied and will be based solely on your ability to satisfactorily perform the work of the position, existing work at the higher grade level, and recommendation by the position's supervisor.

The BLM Prineville District is seeking to fill multiple Realty Specialist GS /07/09 (FPL-11) vacancies, one in our Division of Resources, and one each in the Deschutes and Central Oregon Field Offices.

These positions will be responsible for providing technical expertise in a wide variety of land and realty processes, which may include all or several of the following areas:

Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) realty actions, lands and realty case work, planning systems, compliance, environmental analysis, review of title reports and abstracts, preliminary and final title opinions, granting of rights-of-way, communication actions and budget.

The GS-05 is an entry level, the GS-07 is more of a developmental level with the GS-09 working more independently thus sharpening their knowledge, skills and abilities reaching the full performance level of a GS-11.

Realty Specialist Major Duties, additional detail:

Gathers, analyzes, and processes information, and makes defensible recommendations on a wide variety of routine, non-routine, complex and controversial lands, and realty actions primarily focused on rights-of-way, communication sites, permits, and leases.

Provides support in furtherance of District office management plans.

Interprets and applies laws, regulations, policies, instruction memoranda, and manuals through which the BLM administers its land and realty program, including but not limited to, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act, 43 CFR substantially), Bureau manuals (handbooks), policies, guidelines, realty reports and other pertinent laws and regulations.

Conducts on-site compliance examinations on rights-of-way, permits, R&PPs, communication sites, and other use authorizations.
Drafts and finalizes legal documents and correspondence for realty assignments including rights-of-way, communication sites, permits, and leases. Coordinate with senior realty staff and Solicitors Office on legal sufficiency of documents. Reviews title reports and abstracts and prepare preliminary and final title opinions.

Uses automated land and records systems and other applications to document a wide variety of land and realty transactions.

Database and software environments used for work include Microsoft Office products including MS Word and MS Excel; BLM and GLO on-line records; LR2000; OR-WA interactive maps; WARP; GTRN; MS Access; COMMSITE; CBS; LRAM; and AMORT.

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