4261-Real Property Appraiser
San Francisco Office of the Assessor-Recorder, San Francisco, CA, United States
Overview
The Office of the Assessor-Recorder is responsible for fairly and accurately executing property assessment functions in accordance with the State Constitution and State and local laws. Our core responsibilities include identifying all taxable property in the City and County of San Francisco, establishing a taxable value, and applying all legal exemptions. Property broadly includes real property as well as personal property owned by businesses. The Office is also responsible for recording documents and securing public records. We ensure each document meets recording requirements and make them accessible to the public. We record over 400 different types of documents annually, including deeds of trust, reconveyances, liens, maps, and public marriage certificates. Additionally, the Office is responsible for collecting any transfer tax due upon a change in property ownership and performing audits to ensure the correct property value basis for taxation. In all that we do we seek to advance the values of fairness, care, equity, and excellence in service to our diverse constituents and communities. What We Do Each year we prepare an assessment roll that reflects the taxable values of land, improvements, and personal property. The assessment roll is the basis for San Francisco’s property tax revenue. We enroll property tax value by discovering new construction or changes in ownership. The work of our Office in enrolling property valued at approximately $352 billion generates an estimated $4.1 billion in property tax revenue for the City and County of San Francisco. Property tax revenue represents over one-third of the City\'s General Fund which pays for crucial services ranging from public safety, affordable housing, and education to neighborhood improvements and health and family support services. Our success is grounded by our Office\'s investment in our four strategic pillars: people, systems, services, and engagement. We prioritize a climate and culture where belonging and inclusion are advanced, staff can be their authentic selves and pursue pathways for career growth, and diverse constituencies are equitably supported with a meaningful and seamless experience through care in customer service and efficient technology systems. In line with these values, we are taking significant steps to modernize our operations, including leading a cross-departmental effort to replace the legacy property assessment system currently used to manage the City\’s hundreds of billions of dollars in assessed property value. This modernization work will provide for increased security and service as well as greater integration with other City systems utilized by the Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector and the City Controller’s Office. We are committed to developing an organization that works to address the pervasive and persistent inequities resulting from systemic racism in our society. This extends to our external engagements where our Office seeks to increase access to resources across multiple constituencies by hosting presentations, workshops, attending events, tabling at resource fairs, and more to ensure that all San Franciscans know what our office can do for them. Role description
The Office of the Assessor-Recorder is hiring Real Property Appraisers. New hires in this classification will present and value the Assessor’s residential and small commercial cases at hearings before the AAB, including all associated prehearing conferences, hearing officer hearings and board hearings, as assigned. Under general supervision, they may also perform professional appraisal work in connection with assessing, examining, analyzing, and evaluating real property of moderate complexity for tax assessment purposes. The 4261 is the journey level class in the Real Property Appraisal series. Essential duties
Appraise various types of moderately complex real property, to establish values for tax assessment purposes, and to make and recommend changes to valuation. Estimate property value by conducting site inspections and using standardized market, cost and income valuation approaches. Gather and analyze information from a variety of sources in order to maintain current information on real property. Investigate complaints on property assessments; make recommendations regarding the resolution of such complaints; explain findings to property owners. Perform special investigations and appraisal surveys, such as commercial area rent surveys. Prepare appeal packages for properties under assessment appeal; testify and or present before Assessment Appeals Board; may present at other quasi-judicial bodies. Prepare and maintain various records and reports, including those related to appraisal of real property. Explain appraisal and assessment procedures to property owners and general public. Interact with members of the public, City staff of other departments and City officials during the course of business. Additional duties as assigned. Qualifications
Education:
Requires a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university. Experience:
One (1) year of experience in the past 10 years appraising real property in a County Assessor’s Office. License and Certification:
Eligibility for certification from the California State Board of Equalization as an appraiser for property tax purposes. In accordance with the California State Board of Equalization, appointees to this class must possess or obtain permanent certification as an appraiser for property tax purposes, within one (1) year of appointment, and must maintain certification as a condition of continued employment. Substitution: The required education may be substituted by other qualifying combinations of education and experience as described in the California State Board of Equalization Property Tax Rule 283. Three (3) years of experience in the past ten (10) years appraising real property as a fee, institutional or government appraiser may substitute for the required experience. Five (5) years of experience within the past ten (10) years in any of the following occupations may substitute for the required experience: A. an accountant, financial auditor, building cost estimator, architectural, civil, or structural engineer, real estate loan agent, real estate loan underwriter, right-of-way agent; OR B. a real estate licensee, licensed by the California Department of Real Estate or equivalent agency of another state, engaged in buying, selling, leasing or managing real estate; OR C. an appraiser aide or appraiser trainee in an assessor\'s office or in the Property Tax Department of the California State Board of Equalization; OR D. an employee, other than an appraiser, appraiser aide, or appraiser trainee, of an assessor\'s office or of the Property Tax Department of the California State Board of Equalization, except that such employment time shall be limited to qualifying for only two-thirds of the five-year experience substitution requirement. The remaining one-third of time shall be accumulated by other relevant experience as described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) above. Substitution (continued): 4. Completion of a 12 month real property appraiser trainee program equivalent to the City and County of San Francisco\'s 4260 Real Property Appraiser Trainee Program may substitute for one (1) year of professional experience.
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The Office of the Assessor-Recorder is responsible for fairly and accurately executing property assessment functions in accordance with the State Constitution and State and local laws. Our core responsibilities include identifying all taxable property in the City and County of San Francisco, establishing a taxable value, and applying all legal exemptions. Property broadly includes real property as well as personal property owned by businesses. The Office is also responsible for recording documents and securing public records. We ensure each document meets recording requirements and make them accessible to the public. We record over 400 different types of documents annually, including deeds of trust, reconveyances, liens, maps, and public marriage certificates. Additionally, the Office is responsible for collecting any transfer tax due upon a change in property ownership and performing audits to ensure the correct property value basis for taxation. In all that we do we seek to advance the values of fairness, care, equity, and excellence in service to our diverse constituents and communities. What We Do Each year we prepare an assessment roll that reflects the taxable values of land, improvements, and personal property. The assessment roll is the basis for San Francisco’s property tax revenue. We enroll property tax value by discovering new construction or changes in ownership. The work of our Office in enrolling property valued at approximately $352 billion generates an estimated $4.1 billion in property tax revenue for the City and County of San Francisco. Property tax revenue represents over one-third of the City\'s General Fund which pays for crucial services ranging from public safety, affordable housing, and education to neighborhood improvements and health and family support services. Our success is grounded by our Office\'s investment in our four strategic pillars: people, systems, services, and engagement. We prioritize a climate and culture where belonging and inclusion are advanced, staff can be their authentic selves and pursue pathways for career growth, and diverse constituencies are equitably supported with a meaningful and seamless experience through care in customer service and efficient technology systems. In line with these values, we are taking significant steps to modernize our operations, including leading a cross-departmental effort to replace the legacy property assessment system currently used to manage the City\’s hundreds of billions of dollars in assessed property value. This modernization work will provide for increased security and service as well as greater integration with other City systems utilized by the Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector and the City Controller’s Office. We are committed to developing an organization that works to address the pervasive and persistent inequities resulting from systemic racism in our society. This extends to our external engagements where our Office seeks to increase access to resources across multiple constituencies by hosting presentations, workshops, attending events, tabling at resource fairs, and more to ensure that all San Franciscans know what our office can do for them. Role description
The Office of the Assessor-Recorder is hiring Real Property Appraisers. New hires in this classification will present and value the Assessor’s residential and small commercial cases at hearings before the AAB, including all associated prehearing conferences, hearing officer hearings and board hearings, as assigned. Under general supervision, they may also perform professional appraisal work in connection with assessing, examining, analyzing, and evaluating real property of moderate complexity for tax assessment purposes. The 4261 is the journey level class in the Real Property Appraisal series. Essential duties
Appraise various types of moderately complex real property, to establish values for tax assessment purposes, and to make and recommend changes to valuation. Estimate property value by conducting site inspections and using standardized market, cost and income valuation approaches. Gather and analyze information from a variety of sources in order to maintain current information on real property. Investigate complaints on property assessments; make recommendations regarding the resolution of such complaints; explain findings to property owners. Perform special investigations and appraisal surveys, such as commercial area rent surveys. Prepare appeal packages for properties under assessment appeal; testify and or present before Assessment Appeals Board; may present at other quasi-judicial bodies. Prepare and maintain various records and reports, including those related to appraisal of real property. Explain appraisal and assessment procedures to property owners and general public. Interact with members of the public, City staff of other departments and City officials during the course of business. Additional duties as assigned. Qualifications
Education:
Requires a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university. Experience:
One (1) year of experience in the past 10 years appraising real property in a County Assessor’s Office. License and Certification:
Eligibility for certification from the California State Board of Equalization as an appraiser for property tax purposes. In accordance with the California State Board of Equalization, appointees to this class must possess or obtain permanent certification as an appraiser for property tax purposes, within one (1) year of appointment, and must maintain certification as a condition of continued employment. Substitution: The required education may be substituted by other qualifying combinations of education and experience as described in the California State Board of Equalization Property Tax Rule 283. Three (3) years of experience in the past ten (10) years appraising real property as a fee, institutional or government appraiser may substitute for the required experience. Five (5) years of experience within the past ten (10) years in any of the following occupations may substitute for the required experience: A. an accountant, financial auditor, building cost estimator, architectural, civil, or structural engineer, real estate loan agent, real estate loan underwriter, right-of-way agent; OR B. a real estate licensee, licensed by the California Department of Real Estate or equivalent agency of another state, engaged in buying, selling, leasing or managing real estate; OR C. an appraiser aide or appraiser trainee in an assessor\'s office or in the Property Tax Department of the California State Board of Equalization; OR D. an employee, other than an appraiser, appraiser aide, or appraiser trainee, of an assessor\'s office or of the Property Tax Department of the California State Board of Equalization, except that such employment time shall be limited to qualifying for only two-thirds of the five-year experience substitution requirement. The remaining one-third of time shall be accumulated by other relevant experience as described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) above. Substitution (continued): 4. Completion of a 12 month real property appraiser trainee program equivalent to the City and County of San Francisco\'s 4260 Real Property Appraiser Trainee Program may substitute for one (1) year of professional experience.
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