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Review Appraiser
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This position serves as a Review Appraiser within the National Construction Valuation and Specially Adapted Housing Value Stream. The purpose of this position is to serve as a Review Appraiser in the Regional Loan Center (RLC) for the lending industry, appraisers, and to perform quality-control field reviews and post audit review of appraisals prepared in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Home Loan Program.
What You'll Do
- →Serve 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.
- →Perform a full range of appraisal review processes and act as primary VA liaison to ensure appraisers, lenders, and servicers are properly administering VA policies and procedures.
- →Consult, advise, and instruct fee personnel and program participants on appraisal, construction, and other matters pertaining to Valuation.
- →Ensure reasonable value is properly established and the appraisal meets industry standards.
- →Perform oversight review of Staff Appraisal Reviewers (SARs) performance on Notices of Value issued under the Lender Appraisal Processing Program (LAPP) and recommend to the supervisor disciplinary actions or sanctions against Lender SARs.
- →Communicate with appropriate stakeholders to facilitate appraisal corrections or acquire additional information to establish reasonable value.
- →Determine property eligibility for VA Home Loan Program.
- →Monitor the quantity, quality, and timeliness of work, providing guidance, training, and outreach to internal and external stakeholders.
- →Demonstrate good working knowledge of Valuation approaches and various appraisal techniques to adapt and apply appropriate appraisal methods for analyzing available data.
- →Detect differences in comparable properties and adjust data to make supported Valuation estimates.
- →Use 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.
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, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Additional Conditions of Employment are as follows: 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 or trial period.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓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.
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓An unofficial or official copy of your transcripts must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 294bcc14-49ab-4424-890d-dc941235c964
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