Lead Right of Way Agent (In-House)
$48–$55 year
On-siteRochester, New York, United States
Job Summary
Manage field office staff and operations while negotiating option agreements, easements, and subordination agreements for large, complex acquisition projects. Represent the client at public meetings, regulatory hearings, and presentations, and act as a liaison between landowners, contractors, surveyors, and inspectors. Monitor project budgets, prepare forecasts and progress reports, and settle damages before, during, and after construction. Train junior agents, review their work, and testify as an expert witness in court during condemnation actions. Document all contact with landowners, enter details into the project database, and lead reviews of project files at the end of engagements.
Required Qualifications
- Applicant's experience should be primarily in the surface right-of-way industry
- Must be able to work independently
- Must be able to accept responsibility for managing people
- Must be able to successfully complete large, complex acquisition projects on time, within budget and schedule constraints
- Must be able to complete such projects with a minimum of problems and disruptions
- In-depth knowledge of legal terminology that applies to land acquisition
- Knowledge of turnkey project management, from initial activities such as ownership research through negotiations, acquisition, relocation, construction, damage settlement, condemnation
- Expertise in negotiations, conflict management, mediation
- Capable of completing legal documents and forms such as easements and agreements
- Knowledge of the sequence of processes required to complete acquisition
- Ability to plot metes and bounds descriptions of property and read a variety of maps, electronic and paper
- Ability to read and analyze engineering drawings and right of way plans in order to properly explain the taking
- The ability to read, understand and communicate property valuation information to landowners, as contained in formal real estate appraisals prepared by professional state certified appraisers
- The further ability to render independent land value judgments and determine when compensation beyond the value outlined in an appraisal is justified
- Proficient in programs necessary to maintain documentation and produce reports
- Understands technology of projects well enough to explain and discuss with property owners
- Skilled in variety of research methods, particularly internet, courthouse and recorded documents
- Knowledge of how to determine valuations of crops, trees, pastures, etc. for damage settlement
- Oral and written communication skills must be above average
- The ability to interpret, analyze and assimilate diverse bits of information
- Must be able to understand the technological aspects of a project well enough to discuss it knowledgeably with property owners
- Must be computer literate
- Must be capable of maintaining detailed information in software programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Access
- Must be skilled in researching information on the internet
- Must be skilled in communicating via e-mail
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