Job Description Summary

Department - Assessors

Job Description

OPEN TO CURRENT PIMA COUNTY EMPLOYEES ONLY

Job Type: Classified

Job Classification: 6020 - Property Appraiser III

Salary Grade: 12

Pay Range

Hiring Range: $56,846 - $68,203 Annually 

Pay Range: $56,846- $79,580 Annually    

Range Explanation:

• Hiring Range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.

• Pay Range is the entire compensation range for the position.

The Property Appraiser III appraises personal, residential, commercial, land and/or industrial property for tax purposes, and develops and defends property valuation. Assists in the coordination of section projects and leads other appraisal staff. This is distinguished from Property Appraiser II by the complexity of duties in developing and defending industrial and commercial property valuations and the ability to lead other appraisal staff.

This vacancy is in the Field Services section of the Assessor's Office.

Essential Functions:

As defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this classification may include any of the following tasks, knowledge, skills, and other characteristics. This list is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by incumbents of this class. Work assignments may vary depending on the department’s need and will be communicated to the applicant or incumbent by the supervisor.

• Leads other property appraisal staff, which includes assisting the supervisor in the planning of the workload, and the assignment of work to other staff;

• Performs complex research and analysis developing and defending industrial, and commercial property valuations;

• Compiles and analyzes data to establish value of commercial, industrial, land, residential and personal property for tax appraisal;

• Contacts commercial accounts in the field to gather information for appraisals;

• Locates, computes and appraises secured and unsecured personal property of commercial, industrial and agricultural businesses, residential rental complexes and ranches in accordance with Department of Revenue guidelines and state statutes;

• Gathers, verifies and analyzes information regarding sales of real property;

• Reviews depreciation schedules, asset lists, financial statements and annual department forms to verify taxable property and to extract net operating income;

• Inspects and appraises property at market value using established cost, market and income approaches to valuation and correlates data into a single estimate of value;

• Makes corrections to applied valuations based on field inspections and other research;

• Reviews valuations when petitioned by taxpayers, and defends, arbitrates or testifies about properties before property owners, boards of valuation and courts of law, and appears as an expert witness in Superior Court cases;

• Explains assessment procedures to individual taxpayers;

• Utilizes and maintains departmental databases, spreadsheets and related networks; May lead and/or train appraisal support staff;

• Performs other lead functions assisting with staff training and development.

Minimum Qualifications:

Four years of experience in construction, real estate and/or property appraisal AND one year of education in regional development, civil engineering, urban planning, property appraisal and/or real estate. (Acceptable real estate experience includes establishing value through research of sales of comparable properties. Acceptable construction experience includes estimating and obtaining building permits.)

(Additional experience and/or education from an accredited college or university may be substituted.)

OR:

Two years of experience with Pima County as a Property Appraiser II or Property Technician II.

Qualifying education and experience must be clearly documented in the "Education" and "Work Experience" sections of the application. Do not substitute a resume for your application or write "see resume" on your application. 

Selection Procedure