Right of Way Agent - Bristol

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Job Category
:
Land Acquisition and Property Management

Location
:
Bristol, VA

Apply Before
: 11/19/2025, 11:59 PM

Job Schedule
:
Full time

Minimum Salary
: $59,203.00

Maximum Salary
: $96,205.00

Contact Name
:
Audrey Phillips

Job Description

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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