Land Law Examiner (Lands and Realty).

About the role

The primary responsibility of this role involves collecting and reviewing data for various land and realty cases, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal requirements. The role also includes adjudicating cases, preparing correspondence and decisions, and researching necessary information to complete legal documents.

Responsibilities

• 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 research 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, analyzes reports and information to appropriately apply laws, policies, and needed stipulations to various documents and work products.

Requirements

Conditions of employment include providing proof of U.S. citizenship, passing a background investigation, registering for Selective Service, participating in direct deposit, successfully passing E-Verify, possessing a valid state driver's license within 30 days of entry on duty, and completing a financial disclosure report within 30 days of appointment. Additionally, applicants must not hold an active real estate license or have an interest in firms with interests in Federal Lands.

Qualifications

• To qualify for this position, you must meet the minimum qualifications 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.
• Education: You may meet qualifications requirement for this position with an equivalent combination of specialized experience and appropriate graduate education.
• Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs and other organizations.
• Foreign Education: To receive credit for education completed outside the United States, you must show proof that the education has been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs.
• Additional information: This position is also open to status candidates under announcement BLM-MT-26-12996550-TBG-FUL. You must apply to each announcement separately if you wish to be considered under both recruitment methods. Additional vacancies may be filled using this job announcement.
• Physical Demands: The work is predominantly sedentary although there is some walking, stooping, and bending involved when searching for records. Working Conditions: The work is in a typical office setting.