Legal Assistant
What you'd do
This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southern Plains Region in Anadarko, Oklahoma; El Reno, Oklahoma; Horton, Kansas; Pawnee, Oklahoma; Shawnee, Oklahoma to perform land titles and records functions and duties necessary in recording, imaging, extracting, scanning and data entry.
Major duties
As Legal Assistant, GS-0986, your typical work assignments may include, but not limited to: Review legal instruments including probate orders, probate modifications, rights of way, and mortgages encoded into the automated system. Furnish information involving status of land and ownership of allotments. Scan transactions into the Imaging database. Maintain the trust database system to encode data. Review complex and non-complex documents relative to multiple ownership records. Give facts or information in land ownership over a variety of related data. Review assigned probates to ensure accuracy of individual identification numbers. Identify information on documents such as metes and bounds, land plats, rights-of-way, lease forms, heirship terms, and title status reports.
What you need to qualify
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: (OPM Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for Clerical and Administrative Support Positions, Legal Assistance Series, 0986). Qualification for GS-05:1 year of specialized experience that equipped me with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of this position. This experience is related to the work of the position and equivalent to at least the GS-04 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include reviewing a wide range of real estate and probate legal instruments to confirm conformity with existing legal title records; assisting with recording legal documents and maintaining land title maintenance system; scan documents into automated system; answers inquiries related to probate data and legal documents for recording OR I have successfully completed 4 years of progressively higher-level education leading to a bachelor's degree in an accredited business or technical school, college or university above high school in any field for which high school graduation or equivalent is a prerequisite. Qualification for GS-06: I have 1 year of specialized experience at the GS-05 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include reviewing land title documents for accuracy and conformance to procedures and regulations prior to final recordation of property; record, image, research and data entry of the land titles and records; gather and analyze title data on land ownership and title chains; read maps and legal descriptions; answer inquiries related to probate data and legal documents for recording. Qualification for GS-07: I have 1 year of specialized experience at the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include reviewing land title documents for accuracy and conformance to procedures and regulations prior to final recordation of property and maintains land title maintenance system; receives, examines and reviews legal documents including rights-of-ways, lease formats, land records and title status reports; record, image, extract, scan and data entry of the land titles and records; reviews complex and non-complex documents relative to multiple ownership records; answers inquiries related to probate data and legal documents for recording. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.
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