Assistant City Assessor

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NYC Department of Finance (DOF) is responsible for administering the tax revenue laws of the city fairly efficiently and transparently to instill public confidence and encourage compliance while providing exceptional customer service.

DOFs Property Valuation and Tax Mapping is responsible for valuing more than one million properties within the city and overseeing assessments and valuations in a fair and equitable manner. The valuations enable the efficient and effective collection of property tax revenues for New York City.

The Property Assessment Review and Real Estate of Utility Corporations (REUC) Unit is responsible for defending assessments that have been appealed to the Tax Commission and Small Claims Assessment Review hearings. The unit is also responsible for working on various utility-type properties including but not limited to gas manufacturing plants electric and steam generating plants electrical substations telecommunications companies and transmission and distribution properties (including tunnels pipes conduits wires etc.).

An excellent opportunity is available in the Assessment Review & Real Estate Utility Corporation (REUC) & Special Properties Unit for an Assistant City Assessor to perform entry level professional assessing work.

The selected candidate will assist City Assessors with various activities related to supporting the agencys property assessment operation and report to the Supervising Assessor.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

-Assist valuation teams with conducting physical field inspections of properties in the five (5) boroughs of New York City.
-Collect relevant data regarding property values and transactions from owners lessors and lessees superintendents or other building representatives such as brokers relevant publications or other departments of government.
-Enter utilize and maintain data on mass appraisal computer systems.
-Take measurements and write descriptions of property.
-Interpret maps and building plans make simple title searches do computations and perform other related analytical and technical work.
-Take photographs of properties.
-Prepare timely reports and maintain detailed records as required.
-Utilizing the Tax Class 1 cost worksheet and other approved methods to prepare and implement value changes on capped properties.
-Examining parcels of greater complexity including physical changes on larger residential and commercial properties.
-Reviewing property and assessment-related records and interacting with tenants property managers and/or owners and their representatives.
-Performing analytical and computation work at a higher level.
-Conduct title searches and gather historic records to determine relevant interests concerning real property.
-In the temporary absence of a City Assessor may perform the duties of that individual.


Additional Information:

In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

ASSISTANT CITY ASSESSOR - 40201

Qualifications :

Qualification Requirements
1. A baccalaureate degree or higher from an accredited college; or university
2. An associate degree from an accredited college or university or sixty (60) semester credits from an accredited college or university and one (1) year of full-time satisfactory experience in real estate work involving the valuation of real property; or
3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and two (2) years of full-time satisfactory experience in real estate work involving the valuation of real property; or
4. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 2 or 3 above; however all candidates must have a high school diploma or its educational equivalent. College credit listed in 2 above may be substituted for experience on the basis of thirty (30) semester credits from an accredited college or university for six (6) months of the experience described in 2 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time