Summary This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pine Ridge Agency, Superintendent - Pine Ridge Agency in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. This is a Bargaining Unit position, for more information see What are bargaining units? Responsibilities Provides assistance, advice, oversight, monitoring, and coordination for the protection, management, planning, conservation, development, and utilization of trust and restricted federal Indian-owned lands that include acquisition and disposal. Incumbent plans and implements acquisition and disposal transactions, ensuring the protection, conservation, and prudent utilization of Indian lands. Serves as an advocate to tribes and Indian landowners with the respect to the conveyance of their real property holdings. Serves as an advocate in assisting the tribes/beneficiaries/lessees and other landowners and interested parties about the process options, documentation, and other needs that may be associated with conveyance activities. Incumbent will be responsible to collaborate and coordinate conveyance transactions to ensure that the necessary clearances and procedures have been secured and completed (i.e., appraisals, NEPA, TSR, etc.). Incumbent may be responsible to perform on-site assessments as is needed to obtain factual data that may impact the conveyance. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: (OPM Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for Administrative and Management Positions, GS-1170). GS-11: One (1) year of full-time specialized experience or the equivalent, comparable to at least the GS-9 grade level in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sector). This experience must include activities such as: experience must include 6 of the 8 activities: 1) analyzing policies, regulations, state, tribal, federal laws in planning, developing and recommendations of acquiring property; 2) performing work in acquiring property, providing guidance to interested parties on such matters as acquisition of property; 3) performing routine conveyances; 4) analyzing the impact and relevance for the value of trust property; 5) interpreting various types real property interests (life estates, homestead, vested interest, remainder and unknown remainder interest, etc.) to include the determination of trust, restricted and non-restricted interest and titles; 6) managing, processing and ensuring the approval of land titles for all land transactions; 7) plan and implement land transactions and projects for trust and restricted property, ensuring receipt of fair market values; 8) oversee disposal of property that may involve numerous environmental concerns, unstable market(s), unusual security problems, extensive damage (to the property), and have to take into consideration possible significant impacts on local real estate markets, among other things. (Your resume must support this experience.) OR EDUCATION Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree OR Three (3) full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.M., if related. GRADUATE EDUCATION: Graduate education must be related to the occupation and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the position to be filled. Examples of specialized experience include, but is not limited to, experience gained in a complex real estate program that involved acquisition and disposal for trust and restricted property, or other duties that ensured the protection of trust assets. 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 Additional Information All new hires earn the beginning salary of their pay grade (Step 1). See 2024 Salary Tables here and select the duty station from the Pine Ridge, South Dakota to choose the appropriate pay chart. If no specific chart is listed for this geographic location, see the "rest of U.S." chart. The full performance level of this position is GS-11 TELEWORK: Indian Affairs has determined that the duties of the position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. Career Transition Assistance Programs: These programs apply to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: (1) meet CTAP or ICTAP eligibility criteria; (2) be rated well-qualified for the position with a score of 85 or above; and, (3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your CTAP or ICTAP eligibility. For more information visit: http://www.opm.gov/rif/employee_guides/career_transition.asp . Certain candidates may be eligible to apply under a special hiring authority including those for disabled individuals, Peace Corps employees, Foreign Service employees, veterans, etc. For more information, visit the following OPM websites: USAJOBS Information Center: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/; Vets Info Guide: http://www.fedshirevets.gov/. Former Federal Employees are required to indicate whether they received a Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment (VSIP) buyout in their previous employment with the Federal government, and are required to submit a copy of the applicable Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50) regarding the VSIP. Most individuals who accept reemployment with the Federal government within 5 years of receiving the VSIP amount, must repay the gross amount of the separation pay prior to reemployment.