Realty Specialist

About the Position:

Serves as a Realty Specialist with primary assignments focusing on management and disposal actions within leasing and acquisition duties as assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares real estate out-grants (leases, easements, permits, and licenses) to grant non-Army users access to federal real property at water resource development projects within the states of Oregon and/or Washington.
• Negotiates, drafts, and distributes out-grants to customers, including other federal, state, or municipal governing bodies and private entities for the use of land and facilities.
• Coordinates with multi-disciplinary teams to obtain required technical approvals and support documents (environmental/cultural and appraisals) for out-grants or disposals of real property interests.
• Examines and analyzes public records, appraisal reports, right-of-way maps, and title evidence to identify matters affecting negotiations.
• Furnishes technical advice, guidance, and assistance to customers and conducts compliance inspections.
• Keeps the supervisor and customer well-informed of any revisions and status of real estate instruments.
• Represents the Portland District Real Estate Division in meetings with Project Delivery Teams (PDTs), customer representatives, and stakeholders to discuss and explain out-grant requirements and policies.

Requirements:

US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience:

One year of specialized experience which includes:

• Implementing real estate principles, concepts, and practices.
• Planning and completing real estate transactions or related administrative work.
• Applying regulations and real estate law to grant interests (lease, easement, permits, licenses, or other agreements) in land or facilities.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).

Education:

Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree with a major course of study in Real Estate Law, Business, Development, or other fields related to the position.

Combination of Education and Experience:

A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18.

Add the two percentages.

Specialized Experience for the GS-11:

One year of specialized experience which includes:

• Implementing real estate principles, concepts, and practices as well as a good understanding of the real estate market.
• Negotiating the terms and conditions of complex out-grants, disposal, property transfers, or similar types of agreements or authorizing documents.
• Conducting in-depth analysis and evaluation of unique and conflicting issues to determine the applicability of established realty practices and methods.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

Education for the GS-11:

Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree with a major course of study in Real Estate Law, Business, Development, or other fields related to the position.

Combination of Education and Experience for the GS-11:

A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18.

Add the two percentages.

Education:

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university.