Right of Way Agent jobs in Columbia, MD

STV is hiring aConsultant Right-of-Way Manager to serve clients both locally and nationally, based out of our Mid-Atlantic Transportation practice and broader North America Transportation & Infrastructure team.

Our growing team seeks a self-motivated professional with a passion for creative problem solving, client service, and peer mentoring. We value diverse project experience, including in land development, transportation planning and design, and local or state government. If a candidate has completed specialized technical or management training, we wish to leverage these unique skill-sets.

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree, Masters and relevant experience preferred.
• Increasing responsibilities in one or more of the following or related fields: business administration, public finance, land development, transportation planning and design, local or state government.
• Professional licensure/certification in commercial real estate, business management, civil engineering, or related discipline.
• Key involvement in real estate acquisition, including negotiation, condemnation, utility and railroad relocation, coordination with public and private utility owners, transactions with other governmental agencies, relocation assistance to displaced families and businesses, rental and maintenance of acquired properties prior to clearance for construction of the transportation facility, and disposal of excess lands through negotiated and public sales.

Responsibilities:

• Lead tasks within a multidisciplinary team along with various functional managers who administratively supervise the individual team members.

• Provide leadership to develop and control project costs and schedules through the use of innovative collaborative business and management tools.

• Leverage strong communications skills to build consensus with public stakeholders, local officials, and multidisciplinary technical teams.

• Assist in the planning, development, and administration of state and/or federal transportation funded programs.

• Serve as the project team lead to coordinate integration of right-of-way planning into the overall project development and delivery processes.

• Monitor compliance with governing federal, state, and local laws, policies, and procedures relative to right-of-way activities and involving the concepts of transportation facilities and their impact on the community and the environment.

• Assist in overseeing contracts, grants, projects, programs, and lettings to include application, approval, payments, monitoring, audits, and/or close-out.

• Assist in coordination related to the utility relocation with public and private utility owners to accommodate proposed highway construction.

• Requires coordination with all levels of government, knowledge of real estate and land title law, appraisal methods and theories, condemnation, and the social, environmental and economic impact of transportation facilities on communities.

Compensation Range:

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At STV, we are fully committed to expanding our culture of diversity and inclusion, one that will reflect the clients we serve and the communities we work in, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

STV offers the following benefits * Health insurance, including an option with a Health Savings Account * Dental insurance * Vision insurance * Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care and Transit and Parking where applicable) * Disability insurance * Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment * 401(k) Plan * Retirement Counseling * Employee Assistance Program * Paid Time Off (16 days) * Paid Holidays (8 days) * Back-Up Dependent Care (up to 10 days per year) * Parental Leave (up to 80 hours) * Continuing Education Program * Professional Licensure and Society Memberships

STV is committed to paying all of its employees in a fair, equitable, and transparent manner. The listed pay range is STV's good-faith salary estimate for this position. Please note that the final salary offered for this position may be outside of this published range based on many factors, including but not limited to geography, education, experience, and/or certifications.