Summary
About the Position: Serve as a subject matter expert on most difficult real estate acquisitions, real estate, and environmental matters.
Duties
Render legal advice on the most difficult matters involving real estate acquisitions and compliance, including direct purchase, leases, easements, or donation of real property.
Research, analyze and provide legal advice during various stages of the real estate acquisition process.
Ensure that the organizations strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to the team and integrated into the team’s strategies, goals, objectives, work plans and work products and services
Lead a team of other attorneys to accomplish the mission, ensuring team workload is accomplished in accordance with established priorities and within accepted timeframes.
Train or arrange for training of team members in methods and techniques of team building and working in teams to accomplish tasks or projects.
Interpret and apply case law, statutes, regulations and policies pertaining to land acquisition, easement acquisition, construction-related issues, and operation of projects and activities.
Review Negotiators Report, Offer to Sell, and other documents prepared by Realty Specialists.
Identify and draft legal instruments, such as releases, disclaimers, and subordination documents or reviews documents prepared by paralegals.
Education
FOREIGN 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. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications in the "Qualification" section above.Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. If you are currently a member of a bar (in good standing) of a state, U.S. commonwealth, U.S. territory, or the District of Columbia, your résumé and supporting documentation will be forwarded to management for consideration. NOTICE OF VETERANS' PREFERENCE: There is no formal rating system for applying veteran's preference to attorney appointments in the excepted service; however, the Department of the Army considers veteran's preference eligibility a positive factor for attorney hiring. Applicants eligible for veteran's preference must include that information in their cover letter or resume and attach supporting documents (e.g., DD Form 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active duty) to their submissions. Although the point-preference system is not used, applicants eligible to claim a 10-point preference must submit a Standard Form (SF) 15, Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference, and supporting documentation required for the specific type of preference claimed. (SF 15, which lists the types of 10-point preference and the required supporting documents, is available from the Office of Personnel Management Website at http://www.opm.gov/.)