Summary This position is in the National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Region's Land Resources Program Office (LRPO) located in Atlanta, Georgia or Naples, Florida. Open to the first 100 applicants or until 02/02/2024 whichever comes first. All applications submitted by 11:59 (EST) on the closing day will receive consideration. Responsibilities The Supervisory Reality Specialist supervise and directs the LRPO land acquisition team of realty personnel, comprised of one (1) Reality Specialist, GS-11, and one (2) Realty Specialist, GS-12. The list of duties include: Plans, organizes, and executes the land acquisition program for the LRPO in conjunction with the Realty Officer. Directly supervise a team of realty personnel including three Realty Specialists engaged in the full range of land acquisition work for all NPS units under the LRPO's area of responsibility. Directs the acquisition of fee simple and less than fee simple estates of land and improvements by donation, purchase, exchange, lease, transfer and condemnation for National Park Service units. This includes all types of lands, residences, farms, and businesses. Responsible for providing guidance to realty staff, solving of complex title problems, and preparing all necessary legal documents including conservation and preservation easements, deeds, leases, title curative instruments and real estate contracts for land to be acquired by the National Park Service. Inputs and/or provides specified information in the Master Lands Console and is responsible for the management and retirement of all permanent realty records in the office. Incumbent may need to create and/or maintain databases for tracking the status of case workload. Provides estimates and justifications for Land and Water Conservation Fund monies for program areas to be used by Realty Officer in developing budget requests. Coordinates and assists park superintendents and staff in preparing Land Acquisition Ranking System submissions. Makes decisions on how to maintain effective public relations with external groups and consults with the Realty Officer on exceedingly complex or controversial issues. Often serves as the contracting officer's technical representative (COTR) on contracts needed to complete acquisition projects (e.g. with title companies, relocation contractors, or others preparing technical reports needed for appraisal purposes, etc.). In this role, develops the scope of the work to be accomplished by contract, Interagency Agreement, or Memorandum of Understanding. Serves as Acting Realty Officer in the Realty Officer's absence and performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship required. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Meet Selective Service Registration Act requirement for males Selectee will be required to participate in the Direct Deposit Electronics Funds Transfer Program. Any individual who is currently holding, or has held within the previous 52 weeks, a General Schedule position under non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet time-in-grade requirements (must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent in the Federal service). Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal civilian employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You will be required to operate a government (or private) motor vehicle as part of your official duties; a valid driver's license is required. You will be required to submit a Motor Vehicle Operator's License and Driving Record. You must also submit (within a State sealed envelope or submitted directly by the State authorities), and at your own expense, all certified driving records from all States that disclose all valid driver's licenses, whether current or past, possessed by you. You may be required to work on-call, evenings, weekends, holidays, overtime and shift work. If you are a new employee or supervisor in the Federal government, you will be required to complete a one-year probationary period. You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 1-3 nights per month. You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes. You may be required to complete training and obtain/maintain a government charge card with travel and/or purchase authority. You will be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450 on an annual basis. Qualifications All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-02/02/2024-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. Credit will be given for all appropriate qualifying experience. For current Federal employees, if hours worked per week are not included on your resume, you must submit a non-award SF-50 for each federal position listed as part of your application to be used to validate your work schedule and determine the amount of qualifying experience that you will be granted. An award SF-50 will not be acceptable documentation for which to consider your amount of qualifying experience. For all other applicants who are not current federal employees, your resume must state either "full-time" (or "40 hours a week") or "part-time" with the number of hours worked per week to ensure proper crediting of specialized experience. Failure to adequately provide information needed to determine number of hours worked in each position may result in that time not being credited when evaluating qualifying experience. For periods of time that reflect military service, the DD-214 or Statement of Service is sufficient to meet the full and/or part-time hours requirement as the service dates will be reflected. To qualify for this position at the GS-13 grade level, you must possess at least one or all of the following minimum qualifications by close of the announcement: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: At least one full year of specialized experience comparable in scope and responsibility to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors). This experience includes activities such as: managing complex, sensitive, and/or unique realty transactions involving real property acquisition and/or disposal through a variety of means; coordinating real property acquisition requirements from initial planning stages through negotiations and closing; applying the principles, practices, and methodologies of real estate acquisition while employing imaginative and innovative approaches to problem-solving; reviewing, formulating, and/or influencing the establishment of policies, plans, programs, and procedures of a realty program; communicating and working with various stakeholders on realty transactions, including Federal, State, and local governments, non-profit organizations, and private individuals and corporations; and providing advice or assistance on routine relocation issues . You must include hours per week worked. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Education There is no substitution of education for experience at the grade level(s) of this announcement. Additional Information A selectee receiving a first appointment to the Federal Government (Civil Service) is entitled only to the lowest step of the grade for which selected The display of a salary range on this vacancy shall not be construed as granting an entitlement to a higher rate of pay. This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if identical vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate. Physical Demands: Incumbent performs mostly sedentary duties in an office setting. The work requires sitting or standing for prolonged periods and lifting, placing and retrieving maps and files from large cabinets. The work also requires long periods of concentration and sitting in one position working on a computer. Working Conditions: Work is usually in an office setting, but travel is necessary to meet with landowners and Park staff and Superintendents and to conduct field investigations that require walking through woods, brush, marshes and uneven terrain. Travel is usually by personal, government, or commercial vehicle or by commercial airline, but may also include swamp buggy, helicopter, etc. A current, valid state issued vehicle driver license is required. The National Park Service has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval. If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document that you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application. Click the following link for more information, https://help.usastaffing.gov/Apply/index.php?title=Alternate_Application_Information.