Land Agent V - Facilities Development Branch

About the role

This posting is being used to fill various Land Agent V positions at the specified location.

Responsibilities

• Researches potential land acquisition sites for new schools, expansions, or disposition, considering factors such as location, size, zoning, and environmental impact.
• Engages with landowners to negotiate fair market prices and terms, including securing necessary easements and rights of way.
• Conducts thorough property due diligence, including title searches, boundary surveys, environmental assessments, and zoning verification.
• Drafts and reviews purchase agreements, deeds, and other legal documents related to land acquisition.
• Captors coordinates with local planning departments and other regulatory agencies to obtain necessary entitlements for land development.
• Oversees the management of acquired land, ensuring proper maintenance and compliance with environmental and zoning regulations.
• Works closely with school officials, design professionals and related consultants, construction teams, and legal counsel to ensure successful land acquisition projects.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education Requirement: Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a bachelor’s degree.
• Excess work experience as described under Specialized Experience or any other responsible administrative, professional or analytical work experience that provided knowledge, skills and abilities comparable to those acquired in four (4) years of successful study while completing a college or university curriculum leading to a baccalaureate degree may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.

Qualifications

To be acceptable, the experience must have been of such scope, level and quality as to assure the possession of comparable knowledge, skills and abilities. The education or experience background must also demonstrate the ability to write clear and comprehensive reports and other documents; read and interpret complex written material; and solve complex problems logically and systematically.

Skills

Knowledge of Hawaii Land Laws, real estate laws and terminology, the real property appraisal process, various types of land title and legal instruments affecting land transactions; and the ability to gather and analyze land transaction data; prepare reports of findings, including conclusions and recommendations and meet and deal effectively with others.

Benefits

The advertised salary is based on full-time employment and includes shortage and school year differentials, if applicable.

Pay

Salary Range: All new external applicants will be placed on the initial step of the salary range. However, placement above the initial step of the salary range will be based on special characteristics and critical needs of the position, an applicant's exceptional qualifications, the availability of funds, and other relevant factors. Such appointments require prior approval. Hawaii State Department of Education employees will be placed on the salary range in accordance with Department regulations.

Schedule

Payday: New employees can expect their first paycheck within the first 3 pay periods of their start date. Payday is on the 5th and 20th (or previous business day) of every month.