Appraiser IV

Experience

• Three (3) years of increasingly responsible professional level property appraisal work for tax assessment, purchase, or loan extension purposes; including one (1) year of handling large industrial or commercial properties and properties of high value and multipurpose use or large size.
• 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.
• Possession of permanent advanced certification as an Auditor-Appraiser/Appraiser by the California State Board of Equalization.

Education

Equivalent to college graduation preferably in accounting, business administration, economics, agriculture or civil engineering.

Licenses

• Possess a valid California driver's license at time of appointment and maintain.

Essential Functions

• Ability to effectively utilize computers and software programs for appraisals, communication and recordkeeping.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Provide excellent customer service and establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees and the general public.
• 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

• California Property Tax Laws and regulations and the Assessor's Handbook.
• Methods of real property appraisal, practices, procedures and terminology.
• Factors affecting the economic value of property.
• Factors, techniques, methods, and principles involved in the appraisal of real property.
• Methods of determining property value.
• Statistical concepts and applications.
• 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.
• Court decisions affecting the assessment of land, building, structures and personal property; and decisions applying to change in ownership determinations.
• Orchard trees and vines (for rural appraisals).
• Dairy ranches and equipment (for rural appraisals).

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