Public Lands Supervisor

About this Job

The Division of Administration/Office of State Lands has a vacancy. This job title has an assigned pay grade of AS-619.

This position requires advanced knowledge of the history of the State of Louisiana, as well as the Office of State Lands and its role since its inception in 1844. A clear understanding of land descriptions, land division, land mapping and land laws including legal descriptions and terminology are imperative. This position requires a high level of focus, organization, discipline and leadership skills. Responsibilities for this position include: supervising and training the Public Lands Analysts, completing research request presented by the public, managing State owned property files using the LAGOV database, maintaining all archived historical documents, maintaining, researching and selling State owned tax adjudicated properties, and oversight and updating the OSL website as needed. We are looking for an intellectually curious and highly analytical professional to join our team. The ideal candidate is driven by a passion for discovery and possesses the critical thinking skills needed to transform complex data research into clear understandable comprehension.

The Office of State Lands—also known as the State Land Office—is responsible for the identification, administration, and management of state public lands and water bottoms. OSL functions include:

• Ensuring the highest economic return and maximum public use possible of our state public lands and water bottoms
• Consulting with clientele all having varying degrees of interest in public lands, navigable water bottoms and the minerals thereunder
• Revenue generation through land and timber sales, surface and sub-surface leasing, issuance of rights-of-way and surface and sub-surface agreements and water bottoms permitting
• Protecting the state’s proprietary interests in its lands and water bottoms

An ideal candidate should possess the following competencies:

• Communicating Effectively: The ability to convey information, ideas, and emotions using structured communication methods that promote understanding and engagement.
• Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to take ownership of actions, behaviors, performance, decisions, and outcomes.
• Thinking Critically: The ability to analyze information objectively, identify connections across sources, and form logical, wellsupported conclusions.
• Acting with Ethics and Integrity: The ability to make choices that reflect ethical standards, integrity and honesty, regardless of circumstances or personal benefit.
• Displaying Professionalism: The ability to uphold workplace standards through consistent conduct, responsible communication, and consideration for others.
• Training Others: The ability to design and deliver training experiences that build knowledge, develop skills, and improve performance.

The Division of Administration is the state government’s management arm and the hub of its financial operations. Division offices perform a wide variety of activities including the following:

• Overseeing the state’s capital construction program
• Working to provide state and federal grants for community development
• Development of the state budget
• Providing technology services
• Giving agencies guidance in the state purchasing and contracting process as they seek goods and services
• Administering a program that provides federal funds to help Louisiana residents recover from a series of devastating hurricanes

Minimum Qualifications

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

• Supervising & training Analyst: Supervises Public Lands Analysts by providing comprehensive oversight and training regarding projects, performance, and professional development. Key oversight duties include managing workflows by assigning and prioritizing tasks, ensuring work output quality, accuracy, and compliance, and providing coaching and feedback to support the analyst's growth. To provide a positive mentorship environment for all Analyst's under their influence.

• Research: Direct liaison to the public and professionals seeking information from the Office of State Lands archived historical land title records and completing research request, including but not limited to, severance packages, original owner information, patent requests, redemptions, cancellations, swamp land information, levee district information, private land claims and grants, original railways, Acts of Congress. Prepare Invoices for research request completed and processes all payments received through the State Lands accounting system.

• LAGOV files: Maintains and inventories over 1200 files that include State owned lands and buildings in the LAGOV Real Estate Module. Works directly with State agency contacts to update any changes to State property ownership per established file. Creates new files for State property acquired. Assist agencies with the sale of surplus properties.

• Archives: Maintains historical original land title records in the de-humidified archives section of the Historical Records & Public Lands Inventory section of the State Lands Office. Oversees and directs the care, maintenance, and intellectual control of ancient documents within the institution's collection. Makes necessary updates to historic documents after land sales, redemptions, cancellations, etc.

• Tax Land sales: Maintains and inventories State tax adjudicated property records. Assist Manager with necessary research of tax adjudicated property to conduct a land sale from the State of Louisiana to interested private individuals.

• OSL Website: Maintains the Office of State lands website by processing any research requests or orders made online, updating digital files of historic documents after land sales, redemptions, cancellations, etc., and updating any changes to State owned digital land files.
  

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: This vacancy will be filled by either a new hire or the promotion of a current, permanent-status classified employee.

What is experience in the Lands Administration Field?

Generally experience in lands administration field includes (but is not necessarily limited to): experience in land title research, land abstracting, property record management or real estate; experience as a licensed practicing attorney; land appraisal experience as a licensed appraiser; land surveying experience as a licensed surveyor; and land administration or public property document administration experience in a government position.

Louisiana is a "State as a Model Employer" for People with Disabilities.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

• Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

A criminal history check may be conducted on all new hires as well as employees changing positions, including promotions, demotions, details, reassignments, and transfers. Also, prospective employees may be subject to pre-employment drug testing. New hires will be subject to employment eligibility verification via the federal government's E-verify system.

Applicants qualifying based on college training or receipt of a baccalaureate degree will be required to submit an official college transcript to verify credentials claimed prior to appointment. Please make every effort to attach a copy of your transcript to your application. The transcripts can be added as an attachment to your online application. The selected candidate will be required to submit original documentation upon hire.

For further information about this posting, please contact:
Erica R. Gay
HR Specialist
Division of Administration/Office of Human Resources
Email:Erica.Gay@la.gov