Job Description

Posting number: 2600558

Department: Assessor

Job classification: APPRAISER I

Posting type: Open

Categories: Administration, Clerical & Data Entry, Accounting and Finance, Professional, Office and Administrative Support

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Conduct investigations, inspections and interviews; analyze data in determining the value of land, orchards and vineyards, buildings and other structures.
  
• Estimates replacement cost, obsolescence, construction cost, market value, and other pertinent factors, obtaining information from interviews with owners, contractors, real estate agents, and others.
  
• Prepares scale drawings of the location of buildings and improvements in relation to property lines.
  
• Explains assessment procedures and determinations to taxpayers.
  
• Reviews properties for special exemptions and insures proper valuation of claims.
  
• Assists in the training and orientation of new appraisers.
  
• In commercial property appraisals devises capitalization rate on projected income.
  
• May present department's case in taxpayer protest hearings.

Examples of duties

Appraiser I

Experience:
None required.

Education:
Equivalent to graduation from a four (4) year college or university preferably in accounting, business administration, economics, agriculture or civil engineering. Equivalent experience in accounting, auditing, appraising or building cost estimating may substitute on a year-for-year basis for the required education.

Licenses:
Eligibility for either temporary or permanent certification as an appraiser by the California State Board of Equalization. If a temporary certification is used to meet this requirement, the employee must acquire permanent certification within one year from date of appointment to this class.

Appraiser II

Experience:
One (1) year of responsible professional level property appraisal work for tax assessment, purchase, or loan extension purposes.

Education:
Equivalent to college graduation preferably in accounting, business administration, economics, agriculture or civil engineering. Equivalent experience in accounting, auditing, appraising or building cost estimating may substitute on a year-for-year basis for the required education.

Licenses:
Possession of permanent certification as an Appraiser by the California State Board of Equalization.

Appraiser III

Experience:
Three (3) years of responsible professional level property appraisal work for tax assessment, purchase, or loan extension purposes.

Education:
Equivalent to college graduation preferably in accounting, business administration, economics, agriculture or civil engineering. Equivalent experience in accounting, auditing, appraising, and building cost estimating, or engineering may substitute on a year-for-year basis for the required education.

Licenses:
Possession of permanent certification as an Auditor-Appraiser/Appraiser by the California State Board of Equalization.

Appraiser I/II/III:
Possess a valid California driver's license at time of appointment and maintain.

Qualifications

• Operate a personal computer and other office equipment.
  
• Communicate effectively with others in person and over the telephone.
  
• Analyze data, interpret directions, procedures and regulations, and develop appropriate responses.
  
• Perform job duties under stressful conditions and respond appropriately to situations.
  
• Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and/or County regulations.
  
• Conduct inspections over uneven surfaces under various environmental conditions.
  
• Frequent use of depth perception, peripheral vision and color perception.
  
• Frequently lift, carry, reach, push, pull, twist and manipulate large and small objects.
  
• Kneel, bend, twist, squat, balance and crawl.
  
• Frequent use of hand-eye coordination.
  
• Frequent use of data entry device including repetitive hand and arm motion.
  
• Occasionally lift and carry up to 40 pounds.
  
• Normal dexterity, frequent holding and grasping.
  
  
• Regular attendance is an essential function.
  
  

Knowledge of:

• Tax laws relating to assessment of real property.
  
• Basic principles of land economics.
  
• General knowledge of principles involved in property appraisal.
  
• Factors, techniques, methods, and principles involved in the appraisal of real property.
  
• Methods of determining property value.
  
• Laws and regulations affecting the appraisal of real property, including pertinent principles and guidelines contained in the State Constitution, and Revenue and Taxation Code.
  
• Building materials, equipment, fixtures, workmanship, and construction quality and quantities, as applied to all classes of buildings.
  
• Factors affecting building and equipment depreciation and obsolescence.
  
• Sources of information concerning property values.
  
• Regulations and court decisions affecting tax appraisal.
  
• Orchard trees and vines. (For rural appraisals.)
  
• Dairy ranches and equipment. (For rural appraisals.)

Ability to:

• Learn and apply the techniques, methods, and principles of real property appraisal.
  
• Assemble and analyze statistical and narrative information.
  
• Prepare and maintain records and reports.
  
• Make mathematical calculations quickly and accurately.
  
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
  
• Maintain effective communications and good relations with the public.
  
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
  
• Meet the public with courtesy and tact.
  
• Apply the techniques, methods, and principles in the equitable appraisal of real property.
  
• Read and interpret maps, assessment books, property descriptions, and legal codes.