ROW Agent

To support Right of Way programmatic and operational activities through a variety of Right of Way disciplines.

How you will contribute:

• Conduct Title Examinations: Current owner to 60 year examinations for submission to Staff Attorney for review and approvals

• Document management: Update or record documents as needed. Maintain and update RUMS as related to assignment.

• Hearings and Meetings: Attend Public Hearings and other Preliminary Engineering meetings. Document landowners project related comments and concerns in RUMS.

• Lien Coordination: Coordinate efforts with attorneys, lien holders and property owners to insure all liens have been partially or fully released.

• Market Research: Research local real estate market to determine comparable replacement housing consistent with decent, safe and sanitary housing and compute replacement housing payment.

• Prepare Basic Administrative Report: Prepare Basic Administrative Report (BAR) for negotiation by preparing or analyzing available market data.

• Prepare Petitions and Orders: Prepare Petitions and Orders for AAC packages, draw down request, and Certificate Invalidation.

• Prepare negotiation packages: Prepare negotiation packages including the marking of plans, preparation of correspondence, legal documents and descriptions.

• Real estate closings: Conduct real estate closings after preparing and submitting written release documents for Deeds of Trust or other liens.

• Relocation : Compute relocation assistance payments and present offers to displaces.

• Relocation services: Provide relocation services to displaced individuals, conducting interviews prior to initiation of negotiations.

• Right of Way Knowledge: Learn the Right of Way disciplines and associated body of knowledge (laws, policies and procedures). Acquire knowledge in property appraisal, negotiation, relocation, and legal obligations.

Time Processing: Maintain and record time charges to appropriate projects and leave types in Cardinal.

What will make you successful:

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees and the general public.

• Considerable knowledge of Federal and State highway policies and procedures pertaining to right of way acquisition, removal of conflicts, and Federal participation in right of way costs.

• Considerable knowledge of State laws pertaining to real estate conveyances, easements, contracts, and eminent domain, and techniques and methods of relocating conflicting utilities.

• Considerable knowledge of various appraisal methods.

• General knowledge of various appraisal methods.

• Skill in understanding and making accurate estimates of right of way costs.

• Skill in understanding highway plans and construction methods, and ability to explain them orally and in writing to property owners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to calculate right of way estimates.

• Ability to communicate complex information a wide variety of individuals both orally and in writing.

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals both inside and outside the agency, including the general public.

• Knowledge of highway construction.

• Knowledge of state laws pertaining to real estate conveyances, easements, and contracts

• Knowledge of various appraisal methods.

Additional Considerations:

• Experience in Right of Way or appraisal work.

• Knowledge of Federal participation in right of way costs.

• Knowledge of eminent domain policies and procedures.

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VDOT employees must abide by VDOTs Code of Ethics and the Commonwealths Standards of Conduct.
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