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Review Appraiser
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
The Review Appraiser position is located in the Veterans Benefit Administration, Loan Guaranty, Construction and Valuation Value Stream. The Review Appraiser is responsible for oversight of an assigned multi-state jurisdiction and will perform a full range of construction and valuation matters affecting the VA Loan Guaranty Program.
What You'll Do
- →Specific duties include: Serves as a technical expert who has knowledge of Uniform Standard of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD), and skill in the application of principals, practices, and techniques of appraisals.
- →Performs a full range of appraisal review processes and acts as primary VA liaison to ensure appraisers, lenders, and servicers are properly administering VA policies and procedures.
- →Consults, advises, and instructs fee personnel and program participants on appraisal, construction, and other matters pertaining to Valuation.
- →Ensures reasonable value is properly established and the appraisal meets industry standards.
- →The Review Appraiser performs oversight desk reviews of the quality of Staff Appraisal Reviewers (SARs) performance on Notices of Value issued under the Lender Appraisal Processing Program (LAPP) and recommends to the supervisor disciplinary actions or sanctions against Lender SARs.
- →Communicates with appropriate stakeholders to facilitate appraisal corrections or acquires additional information to establish reasonable value.
- →Ability to properly determine property eligibility for VA Home Loan Program.
- →Monitors the quantity, quality, and timeliness of work, providing guidance, training, and outreach to internal and external stakeholders.
- →Demonstrates good working knowledge of Valuation approaches and various appraisal techniques to adapt and apply appropriate appraisal methods for analyzing available data.
- →Uses skills to detect differences in comparable properties and adjust data to make supported valuation estimates.
- →Uses common real estate industry data and computer systems to retrieve and analyze data.
- →Convey requested information in ways that are best and easily understood by the numerous and diverse group of stakeholders.
- →Promotion Potential: GS-11 Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 6am and 6pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Yes - as determined by the agency policy Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Position Description/PD#: Review Appraiser; GS-9 PD 39158-A; GS-11 PD 39157-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period OR 2-year trial 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 Selectees are required to service a one-year supervisory probationary period if not previously completed in a Federal position.
- ✓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.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓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.
Benefits
- ★Special Employment Consideration: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more.
- ★Contact the Agency Contact for information on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinator.
- ★Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee.
- ★VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service.
- ★This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.
- ★Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 1b905030-f300-4692-bcb6-6e3a2098ca7a
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