Land Law Examiner; Lands and Realty

Duties

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

• Collects and reviews data for a variety of land and realty cases, ensuring applications are accurate, complete, and meet legal requirements.
• Adjudicates routine to complex cases, prepares correspondence and decisions, and researches information needed to complete legal documents.
• Processes land actions including R and PP, Color-of-Title, withdrawals, exchanges, acquisitions, classifications, and permits.
• Reviews land title records, prepares title documents and patents, enters data into various databases, ensuring data quality.
• Verifies applicant eligibility, and analyzes reports and information to appropriately apply laws, policies, and needed stipulations to various documents and work products.

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

Conditions of employment:

• Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship.
• Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Direct Deposit participation required.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
• You must possess a valid state driver's license within 30 days of entry on duty.
• A financial disclosure report will be required within 30 days of appointment.
• You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority.
• You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands.

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a one-year probationary period or a two-year trial period to evaluate your fitness and whether your continuation of employment advances the public interest.

This probationary or trial period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct;

the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual’s employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated.

Upon completion of your probationary or trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement - 07/20/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement.

Competitive candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart

F.

For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of specialized experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience.

For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the work schedule requirement as the service dates will be reflected. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience.

You must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience:

• Basic knowledge of the examination, contents and processing of quasi-legal or legal documents.
• Ability to do legal research. Ability to interpret laws, regulations and policy guidance.
• Experience utilizing computer equipment and software applications to input, manipulate, update, and maintain data and request reports.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, to deal with a variety of individuals and to prepare reports, correspondence and written material.
• Basic understanding or knowledge of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) and Legal Land Descriptions associated with the PLSS.

1 full year of graduate level education that included or was supplemented by 12 semester hours of course work related to the…