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Job Identification: 10485

Job Category: Land Acquisition and Property Management

Location: Fairfax, VA

Apply Before: 08/24/2025, 11:59PM

Job Schedule: Full time

Minimum Salary: $74,895.00

Maximum Salary: $121,705.00

 

 

Job Description

To support Right of Way programmatic and operational activities through a variety of Right of Way disciplines.
 


How you will contribute:

  • Attend Public Hearings and other Preliminary Engineering meetings. Document landowners project related comments and concerns in RUMS.: Attend Public Hearings and other Preliminary Engineering meetings. Document landowners project related comments and concerns in RUMS.
  • Compute relocation assistance payments and present offers to displaces.: Compute relocation assistance payments and present offers to displaces.
  • Conduct Title Examinations: Current owner to 60 year examinations for submission to Staff Attorney for review and approvals
  • Conduct real estate closings after preparing and submitting written release documents for Deeds of Trust or other liens.: Conduct real estate closings after preparing and submitting written release documents for Deeds of Trust or other liens.
  • Coordinate efforts with attorneys, lien holders and property owners to insure all liens have been partially or fully released.: Coordinate efforts with attorneys, lien holders and property owners to insure all liens have been partially or fully released.
  • Learn the Right of Way disciplines and associated body of knowledge (laws, policies and procedures). Acquire knowledge in property appraisal, negotiation, relocation, and legal obligations.: Learn the Right of Way disciplines and associated body of knowledge (laws, policies and procedures). Acquire knowledge in property appraisal, negotiation, relocation, and legal obligations.
  • Maintain and record time charges to appropriate projects and leave types in Cardinal.: Maintain and record time charges to appropriate projects and leave types in Cardinal.
  • Prepare Basic Administrative Report (BAR) for negotiation by preparing or analyzing available market data.: Prepare Basic Administrative Report (BAR) for negotiation by preparing or analyzing available market data.
  • Prepare Petitions and Orders for AAC packages, draw down request, and Certificate Invalidation.: Prepare Petitions and Orders for AAC packages, draw down request, and Certificate Invalidation.
  • Prepare negotiation packages including the marking of plans, preparation of correspondence, legal documents and descriptions.: Prepare negotiation packages including the marking of plans, preparation of correspondence, legal documents and descriptions.
  • Provide relocation services to displaced individuals, conducting interviews prior to initiation of negotiations.: Provide relocation services to displaced individuals, conducting interviews prior to initiation of negotiations.
  • Research local real estate market to determine comparable replacement housing consistent with decent, safe and sanitary housing and compute replacement housing payment.: Research local real estate market to determine comparable replacement housing consistent with decent, safe and sanitary housing and compute replacement housing payment.
  • Update or record documents as needed. Maintain and update RUMS as related to assignment.: Update or record documents as needed. Maintain and update RUMS as related to assignment.



What will make you successful:

  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the general public.
  • Considerable knowledge of Federal and State highway policies and procedures pertaining to right of way acquisition, removal of conflicts, and Federal participation in right of way costs.
  • Considerable knowledge of State laws pertaining to real estate conveyances, easements, contracts, and eminent domain, and techniques and methods of relocating conflicting utilities.
  • Considerable knowledge of various appraisal methods.
  • General knowledge of various appraisal methods.
  • Skill in understanding and making accurate estimates of right of way costs.
  • Skill in understanding highway plans and construction methods, and ability to explain them orally and in writing to property owners.

 


Minimum Qualifications:

  • Ability to calculate right of way estimates.
  • Ability to communicate complex information a wide variety of individuals both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals both inside and outside the agency, including the general public.
  • Knowledge of highway construction.
  • Knowledge of state laws pertaining to real estate conveyances, easements, and contracts
  • Knowledge of various appraisal methods.

 


Additional Considerations:

  • Experience in Right of Way or appraisal work.
  • Knowledge of Federal participation in right of way costs.
  • Knowledge of eminent domain policies and procedures.