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Start Here. Grow Here. Stay Here. Sarasota County has an opportunity for a Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent or a Senior Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent with our Planning and Development Services Department. In this role you will be responsible for coordinating the overall negotiations and acquisitions of real property interests for Sarasota County Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) and Non-CIP projects. Join this dynamic team today and help to keep Sarasota County the premier community where people choose to live, work, and play!
Job Description:
Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Acquire real property and rights in real property by donation, purchase, and condemnation, coordinate acquisition activities with the County Attorney’s Office. Prepare legal documents and files required for acquisition of real property and condemnation/eminent domain proceedings, petitions for vacations or requests for terminations or modifications of County real estate interests, exchanges, and disposal of surplus real property under the guidance of a supervisor.
- Assist with research and maintaining inventory information on County owned real property.
- Maintain detailed files and data entry of the due diligence and negotiation history for each subject parcel, coordinate settlement activities, prepare legal, conveyance, and payment request documents, and record and file all documents.
- Review construction plans and recommend alternatives to reduce acquisition costs and prepare reports based on comments and projected costs vs. actual costs with assistance from supervisor.
- Assist in estimating acquisition costs for assigned projects and develop critical event tracking information and/or charts.
- Assist in hiring of real estate related professional services, review and approval of their work products, and track payment of the associated invoices under the guidance of a supervisor.
- Prepare reports and deliver presentations to the public and the Board of County Commissioners (BCC).
Senior Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Complete multiple real property acquisition activities from start to finish involving but not limited to complex, high cost, and difficult purchases with minimal supervision.
- Review construction plans and recommend alternatives to reduce acquisition costs and prepare reports based on comments and project costs vs. actual costs.
- Work closely with County Attorney’s Office in obtaining legal information necessary for preparing legal, conveyance, and payment request documents.
- Maintain and organize detailed files, enter due diligence and negotiations data, record transactions required for acquisition of real property interests and condemnation/eminent domain proceedings.
- Assist in strategies with development of condemnation/eminent domain court hearings.
- Extensive knowledge of plans and management of real property acquisitions for construction projects to meet scheduling constraints.
- Perform skillful, fair, meaningful, and effective negotiations with property owners, business owners, tenants, and their representatives. Justify settlements through written reports and oral presentations to management, internal and external customers.
- Process petitions for vacations or requests for terminations or modifications of County real property interests, exchanges, and disposal of surplus real property.
- Independently manage projects’ real property acquisitions by hiring, reviewing, and approving payments for outsourced real estate related professional services required to perform work tasks, including surveys, title reports and appraisals.
- Assist with research and maintaining inventory information on County-owned real property. May include researching title history and development approvals for County owned real property. Research available parcels for possible County acquisition, lease, or sale by Sarasota County.
- Plan, develop and implement policies and procedures for acquisition, management, and disposition of County real estate.
- Coordinate developer dedications on new projects with Development Services and Public Utilities including preparation of legal documents, review of ownership information for the drafting of conveyance documents, review of plans and sketch and legal descriptions to ensure documents are correct prior to recording.
- Analyze options and presents recommendations and reports to the public, County management and the Board of County Commissioners (BCC).
Work Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
*Work schedules may vary due to split shifts, rotations, on-call, emergencies, etc.
About You
Minimum Qualifications:
Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Associate degree with major course work in real estate and/or title law AND three (3) years experience in real property/right-of-way acquisition, title examination and/or searches, real estate law, appraisal field, and/or other related fields.
- Progressively responsible experience can substitute on a year for year basis for the required college degree.
- Valid Florida driver’s license.
Senior Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Bachelor degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in real estate, real estate law, business or public administration, planning, engineering or related field AND four (4) years of related real property/right-of-way acquisition professional experience.
- Progressively responsible experience can substitute on a year for year basis for the required college degree.
- Valid Florida driver’s license.
Preferred Qualifications:
Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Department of Transportation right-of-way acquisition training.
- Educational classes offered by the International Right-of-Way Association.
- Classes pertaining to researching real property chain of title, &/or other comparable training classes.
- Hold or ability to obtain a Florida Notary License within one-year of hire.
- Working knowledge of computers and word processing programs, ability to effectively negotiate complex rights in real property acquisitions, knowledge to accurately review title searches, construction plans, and appraisal reports, and good verbal and written communication skills.
Senior Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Minimum four years’ experience demonstrating extensive knowledge in the following activities: Condemnation/eminent domain proceedings, real estate law, real property/right-of-way negotiation and acquisition, real estate appraisals, title search or review, related real estate activities, land planning, engineering, or surveying.
- Hold or ability to obtain a Florida Notary License within one-year of hire.
- Hold an International Right-of-Way Association Certification or Designation.
- Real property/right-of-way acquisition experience working for or on behalf of a government entity.
- Extensive knowledge of the laws and procedures involved in real property acquisition by eminent domain. Knowledge of the requirements for recording the associated legal documents.
- Proficient in reading, understanding, and reviewing construction/engineering plans and specifications, maps and blueprints.
- Extensive knowledge of and experience with researching real property title data and reviewing title reports and real estate appraisal reports accurately.
- Extensive knowledge of several types of interests in real property.
- Skilled in effective negotiations of complex real property acquisition rights.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with County personnel, property owners and their attorneys, and the public.
- Ability to keep detailed, accurate records and to prepare reports on activities.
- Excellent working knowledge of computers and word processing programs.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
E-Work/Hybrid Work: Currently this position is eligible to e-work 1 day per week! After you complete your first six months and are contingent on work requirements and other factors, you’ll be eligible for this fantastic benefit.
About Everything Else
Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Starting Pay Range: $48,000.00 – $56,000.00 based on experience
- Position Salary Range: $43,721.60 – $75,878.40
Senior Right-of-Way Acquisition Agent:
- Starting Pay Range: $57,000.00 – $63,000.00 based on experience.
- Position Salary Range: $51,542.40 – $87,027.20
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- Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more!
- For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net for additional information.
- Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms and classes at multiple Sarasota County Government locations.
- Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)
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