Land Agent VI - Facilities Development Branch

About the role

The Land Agent VI position involves researching potential land acquisition sites for new schools, expansions, or dispositions. Responsibilities include engaging with landowners to negotiate fair market prices and terms, conducting thorough property due diligence, drafting and reviewing legal documents, coordinating with regulatory agencies, and overseeing the management of acquired land.

Responsibilities

• Researches potential land acquisition sites for new schools, expansions, or dispositions, 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.
• Captures and analyzes land transaction data; prepares reports of findings, including conclusions and recommendations.
• Coordinates with local planning departments and other regulatory agencies to obtain necessary entitlements for land development.
• Works closely with school officials, design professionals, and related consultants, construction teams, and legal counsel to ensure successful land acquisition projects.
• Serves as a liaison between the Department and landowners, addressing concerns and resolving issues related to land acquisition.
• Supervises the professional and non-professional personnel of a program engaged in the acquisition, negotiation, disposition, easements, agreements, leases, and use of facilities for the Department.
• Participates in highly complex or controversial acquisitions and negotiations.

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 considered for this position, applicants must have progressively responsible work experience of the kind, quality, and quantity described in the Specialized Experience section. Examples of qualifying experiences include:

• Progressively responsible work experience in land management, including activities such as preparing transactions for acquisition and disposition of land;
• Progressively responsible work experience in property management, including the efficient utilization and maintenance of real property which involved such activities as the acquisition or disposition of real property, property evaluation, preparation and solicitation of bids, establishment of rental rates, selection of tenants, and the protection and maintenance of property;
• Progressively responsible work experience in the appraisal of real property, including the estimation of property values based on consideration of all factors that influence or affect the value of the property, such as location and environment of the property, zoning, methodology, the analysis of the highest and best uses for which the property is suitable or capable of being adapted, age, physical or functional condition of improvements, potentialities for future development, availability of adequate utilities probabilities of community growth or decline, and resultant value increase or decrease because of changing economic trends and conditions;
• Progressively responsible work experience in developing and maintaining real property classification and valuation systems, including such activities as developing construction and depreciation indexes, valuation tables, methods for gauging the values of different classes of real property, and procedures for the uniform and equitable appraisal of real property.

Skills

Applicants should possess the following 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;
• Ability to gather and analyze land transaction data;
• Prepare reports of findings, including conclusions and recommendations;
• Meet and deal effectively with others;
• Write clear and comprehensive reports and other documents;
• Read and interpret complex written material;
• Solve complex problems logically and systematically.

Benefits

The Hawaii State Department of Education offers a range of competitive benefits to its employees, including:

• Holidays: 13 paid holidays each year; 14 holidays during an election year.
• Vacation: 21 days per year.
• Sick Leave: 21 days per year.
• Health Insurance: State-sponsored Medical, Drug, Vision, and Adult Dental Plans.
• Group Life Insurance: Free life insurance policy for employees and retirees.
• Premium Conversion Plan: Increase take-home pay by having the State deduct the cost of health care premiums before payroll taxes are withheld.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Set aside money from paychecks to pay for out-of-pocket health care expenses and eligible dependent care expenses on a BEFORE-TAX basis.
• Retirement Plan: The State contributes to a retirement plan for eligible employees.

Pay

The advertised salary is based on full-time employment and includes shortage and school year differentials, if applicable. The salary range is $6,728.00 - $8,187.00 per month.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is typically full-time, with paydays on the 5th and 20th (or previous business day) of every month.