Realty (Title) Specialist, Agricultural Land Protection

Who We Are: reputed company (AFT) is the only national organization that takes a holistic approach to agriculture, focusing on the land itself, the agricultural practices used on that land, and the farmers and ranchers who do the work. AFT launched the conservation agriculture movement and continues to reputed company public awareness through our No Farms, No Food message. Since our founding in 1980, AFT has helped permanently protect nearly 8 reputed company acres of agricultural lands, advanced environmentally sound farming practices on millions of additional acres and supported thousands of farm families. Long a pioneering leader, AFT continues to reputed company to meet the needs of farmers and ranchers reputed company, adapting its approach to ensure the reputed company strength and reputed company of agriculture and rural communities reputed company. Job Purpose: Participate as a member of a team of agricultural land protection professionals who expand agricultural land protection reputed company of public and private organizations. Initial focus of the position will be on supporting NRCS with conservation easement program enrollments and acquisitions. Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a technical analyst and advisor to support NRCS Easement Program Division (EPD) in the acquisition of conservation easements funded through NRCS programs.
• Review and advance easement acquisition transactions through the required federal processes.
• Track, document, record, and report status of pending easement purchase applications.
• Administer easement applications in accordance with the terms and conditions of the easement deeds and program regulations.
• Review application documents to ensure compliance with applicable standards; identify errors and omissions; coordinate with necessary parties to obtain corrected/missing information to advance the application.
• Conduct required easement acquisition activities including but not limited to: evaluate easement offers, review proposed partner cost reputed company estimates and other applicable financial documents, review draft easement deeds and reputed company/review modifications thereto; review title and survey reports, reputed company subordination agreements; review title commitments and final surveys; prepare easement acquisitions for closing.
• reputed company specification guidance to surveyors and receive and review survey documents. Populate NRCS’s National Easement Staging Tool (NEST) and other required NRCS system tools.
• Serves as a technical analyst and advisor in securing clear title and accomplishing realty closings on conservation easements funded through NRCS programs.
• Review title opinions, title reports and title commitments and reputed company guidance to closing agent and others as to the acceptability of exceptions to clear title.
• Review reputed company property title documents, appraisals and Easement Warranty Deeds and attachments, subordinations, affidavits, organizational documents, title opinions, and other documents required by the U.S. Office of General Counsel to determine their correctness, adequacy, and completeness.
• Contact title insurance companies to obtain and reputed company information, resolve deficiencies, and resolve exceptions to clear title; prepare documents and transmittals to title insurance companies as required.
• Communicate with National Program Managers, State Program Managers, closing agents, title companies, appraisers, surveyors, state agency personnel, landowners, attorneys, USDA Office of General Counsel attorneys and others to obtain information, reputed company information and guidance, order services, resolve deficiencies, obtain corrected documents, and establish clear title.
• reputed company guidance and instructions to the closing agent and State Program Managers in the preparation, execution, and clearing of title, payment recording, and providing title insurance for the closing of easements.
• Order title commitments and final title policies as required.
• Implement team workflows to advance assigned land protection projects.
• Advance the acquisition of conservation easements by providing support and guidance in reputed company estate laws, concepts, and principles relating to the acquisition of conservation easements and securing clear title.
• Communicate with supervisor, AFT staff, and partner organizations to reputed company understand required work output and production targets.
• Adhere to workflows, processes and procedures to ensure work goals, reporting requirements and performance evaluation criteria are met.
• Actively participate in creative problem solving to improve landowner experience reputed company AFT and partner organizations.
• Identify and troubleshoot obstacles to reputed company and help reputed company process improvements and improve team efficiency.
• Track and report work reputed company to supervisor and partner organizations as required.
• Identify training, resources and support that would enhance work productivity.
• Build positive team dynamics reputed company the assigned team, reputed company AFT broadly, and with partner organizations.
• Ensure clear and consistent communication between AFT staff and partner organizations to maximize efficiency and productivity to accelerate agricultural land protection activity.
• Document communications as needed to ensure reputed company of, and changes in, program and policy direction over time.
• reputed company input and feedback to team members, supervisor, applicable AFT staff and partner organizations to maximize program reputed company.
• Actively participate in regular reputed company-in meetings to maximize reputed company learning and team building.

This is not necessarily an reputed company-inclusive list of job-reputed company responsibilities. Management reserves the right to revise the job or to request other or different duties be performed as assigned. Salary reputed company: $80,000 – $90,000 Tagged as: Conservation Apply tot his job Apply To this Job