This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southern Plains Region, Anadarko Agency, Branch of Real Estate Services in Anadarko, Oklahoma. NOTE: TRAVEL AND RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL NOT BE AUTHORIZED. ANY RELOCATION EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH REPORTING FOR DUTY WILL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SELECTED EMPLOYEE.

Duties

Responsible for planning, organizing, and developing the most economically feasible administrative practices and procedures for the execution of trust real estate services, by providing coordination, technical assistance, and review and monitoring services within the agency and to other branches within the agency, tribal organizations, and individual Indian landowners. Improve the economic status of Indian landowners and discharges the government's trust responsibility to manage, utilize, preserve, conserve, and protect Indian trust resources. Plan, develop, and implement a trust real estate services program to accomplish the timely and efficient processing of applications for patents, removal of restrictions, disposals, acquisitions, rights-of-way, surface, and subsurface leasing and permitting. Coordinate with and monitor the activities of the Agency's natural and cultural resources programs to ensure the protection, development, and wise utilization of all Indian owned trust land in accordance with Federal law, policies, and procedures. Continually analyze and evaluate the overall effectiveness of the entire program, initiating action necessary for more efficient operation. Plan, develop, and implement training for all functions of the real estate services program that may include patents, removal of restrictions, disposals, acquisitions, rights-of-way, surface, and subsurface leasing and permitting, lease compliance and unresolved rights cases, and coordinates training relating to environmental and cultural resources compliance, automated systems, and to utilize data from all information systems.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472). Form BIA -4432 must be submitted with the application if claiming Indian Preference.
• You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit
• You may be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
• If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
• Incidental Operator position. If you are required to operate a motor vehicle in order to properly carry out assigned duties, the 25 IAM 4 Motor Vehicle Safety Program Policy applies. A Link is provided in the Additional Information Section.

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: (OPM Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for Administrative and Management Positions, GS-1170). SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-12: I have at least 1 year of specialized experience or the equivalent, comparable to at least the GS-11 in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sector). Specialized experience includes providing oversight of realty and probate functions for a unit planning work to be accomplished; respond to technical inquires and explaining realty services for a wide range of real estate principles, concepts, and practices as well as a good understanding of the real estate market to manage federally controlled and Indian owned property; maintain and retrieve information from automated systems; meeting deadlines; reviewing work for completeness, correctness, consistency, compliance, or authenticity; know, interpret, and apply federal, state, tribal, and local regulations; is knowledgeable of the laws, regulations, etc., that govern trust assets; and apply applicable laws, regulations, etc., in handling trust assets. (Your resume must support this experience). SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Merit Promotion candidates must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the announcement closing date. Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472). Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.

Education

If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: FOREIGN EDUCATION

Contacts

• Address BIA Center for Recruitment Anadarko P.O. Box 1487 Anadarko, OK 73005 US
• Name: BIA Human Resources
• Phone: 405-247-1600
• Email: [email protected]