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Lead Appraiser
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
This position serves as a Senior Appraiser, Construction and Valuation (C&V), The purpose of this position is to serve as a senior appraiser in the RLC for the lending Industry, appraisers, and to perform quality-control field reviews and post audit reviews of appraisals prepared in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Home Loan Program. The Senior Appraiser is a technical expert that has extensive knowledge of Uniform Standard of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).
What You'll Do
- →Specific Duties Include: Team Lead: Serves as a team leader over multiple review appraisers working in remote locations, with the majority of the team at the GS-11 level.
- →Serves as subject matter expert with high degree of technical proficiency, coach, facilitator, and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.
- →Ensures that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to an assigned team and integrated into the team's objectives and output.
- →Oversight of Full Range of C&V Operation: Completes oversight tasks to ensure operations meet all applicable VA program performance goals, policies, and procedures, including oversight of external program participants including fee personnel and personnel at VA approved lenders and servicers associated with appraisal activities.
- →Performs a full range complex appraisal review processes to ensure established values, appraisal reports and notice of value (NOV) meet VA and industry standards.
- →Reviews, facilitates, and approves applications and waiver requests and makes recommendations to management for final action for stakeholder complaints, and assists in determining appropriate disciplinary actions or sanctions against stakeholders who violate VA and industry standards.
- →Appraisal Review: The lead appraiser is responsible for a wide range of complex appraisal review related responsibilities to ensure established values, appraisal reports and notice of value (NOV) meet VA and industry standards.
- →Serves as a technical expert and maintains close managerial coordination with C&V management.
- →Reviews appraisals of real property, including existing, new, and proposed properties, consisting of one to four living units for the purposes of loan origination, liquidation, and partial release.
- →Customer Service: Conveys information in ways that are best and easily understood by the numerous and diverse group of clients.
- →This may be accomplished through written correspondence, telephone, or personal contacts.
- →Organizes, develops, and leads periodic formal and informal training to fee personnel, program participants, and other parties/organizations including but not limited to trade organizations and VA staff.
- →Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only.
- →The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday.
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period OR, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary period Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements I-9 Acceptable Documents.
- ✓Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education to be credited towards qualifications.
- ✓Provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓All education claimed by applicants will be verified upon appointment.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript to receive credit.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 169f7e06-2688-4233-8e59-b7f627dd64ab
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