Land Law Examiner

Job Description

Land Law Examiner | Bureau of Land Management

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at the Bureau of Land Management, located in Anchorage, AK, with potential for telework. The Bureau of Land Management is a federal agency responsible for managing public lands and resources across the United States. This role is crucial for ensuring the proper legal examination and adjudication of cases related to lands, oil and gas, mining, and other mineral interests on federal lands, supporting the agency’s mission to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, Anchorage, AK

• Mission: To accurately examine and adjudicate legal cases concerning federal lands and resources, ensuring compliance and proper execution of claims and applications.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Case Data Management: Collect and manage data on various cases related to lands, oil and gas, mining, or mineral interests.
• Application Review: Determine the accuracy and proper execution of applications or claims, and assess the qualifications of applicants for legal rights.
• Decision Drafting: Prepare routine correspondence, including decisions, to process cases, and draft progressively complex adjudication decisions.
• Data Integrity: Collect, enter, manipulate, update, and maintain case-related data, ensuring its quality and integrity.

The Must-Haves
• Background: This is an entry-level position that requires either a bachelor’s degree in any field, or three years of general experience that provided familiarity with real property laws, legal land descriptions, land titles, tract maps, and legal documents.
• Experience: For the GS-07 level, candidates must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 level, including experience in examining or adjudicating cases involving land laws and regulations, title searching, interpreting land records, legal instrument review, or working with legal transactions for land acquisition or disposal.
• Skills: Knowledge of real property laws and legal land descriptions, ability to interpret legal documents and land records, skill in data collection and maintenance, and capability to draft legal correspondence and decisions.
• Bonus: Superior Academic Achievement (SAA) from a bachelor’s degree program, provided it included at least 12 semester hours of coursework related to the administration of land laws, or an equivalent combination of qualifying specialized experience and appropriate graduate education.