Public Lands Supervisor

State of Louisiana • Baton Rouge, LA

10h

About The Position

The Public Lands Supervisor works in the Division of Administration’s Office of State Lands (OSL), also known as the State Land Office. OSL identifies, administers, and manages Louisiana’s public lands and water bottoms. Its work includes pursuing economic returns and public use, consulting with clients, generating revenue through land and timber sales and leasing and permitting activities, and protecting the state’s proprietary interests in its lands and water bottoms.

The role requires advanced knowledge of Louisiana history and the Office of State Lands’ role since its inception in 1844, as well as a clear understanding of land descriptions, divisions, mapping, land laws, legal descriptions, and terminology. The supervisor leads and trains Public Lands Analysts; responds to public research requests involving archived land-title records; manages state property files in the LAGOV Real Estate Module; maintains historical archives and tax-adjudicated property records; assists with state tax-land sales; and maintains the OSL website and its digital records. The position calls for focus, organization, discipline, leadership, analytical thinking, and intellectual curiosity.

Requirements

• Six years of experience in a lands administration field; or six years of full-time work experience in any field plus three years of lands-administration experience; or a bachelor’s degree plus three years of lands-administration experience; or an advanced degree plus two years of lands-administration experience.
• Experience in lands administration may include land-title research, land abstracting, property-record management or real estate; work as a licensed practicing attorney; licensed land appraisal or surveying; or government land administration or public-property document administration.
• Advanced knowledge of Louisiana history and the Office of State Lands and its role since 1844.
• Understanding of land descriptions, land division, land mapping, land laws, legal descriptions, and terminology.
• Ability to communicate effectively, demonstrate accountability, think critically, act with ethics and integrity, display professionalism, and train others.
• Every 30 semester hours from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of the six years of full-time work experience in any field, up to 120 semester hours and four years of substitution.
• Applicants qualifying through college training or a baccalaureate degree must submit an official college transcript to verify claimed credentials before appointment.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and train Public Lands Analysts, including assigning and prioritizing work, monitoring quality, accuracy, and compliance, and providing coaching, feedback, and professional-development support.
• Serve as a liaison to members of the public and professionals seeking information from archived historical land-title records, and complete research requests involving topics such as severance packages, original owners, patents, redemptions, cancellations, swamp lands, levee districts, private land claims and grants, original railways, and Acts of Congress.
• Prepare invoices for completed research requests and process payments through the State Lands accounting system.
• Maintain and inventory more than 1,200 state-owned land and building files in the LAGOV Real Estate Module.
• Work with state agency contacts to update property ownership information, create files for newly acquired state property, and assist agencies with sales of surplus properties.
• Maintain historical original land-title records in the State Lands Office archives, directing the care, maintenance, and intellectual control of the collection and updating documents after land sales, redemptions, cancellations, and related actions.
• Maintain and inventory records for state tax-adjudicated properties and assist the manager with research needed to conduct sales to interested private individuals.
• Maintain the Office of State Lands website, process online research requests and orders, and update digital historic-document and state-owned land files.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed