Senior Supervising Assessor

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important note: only candidates who have a permanent city assessor civil service title will be considered for an interview. Please include your employee identification number (ein) when applying and indicate if you are a permanent city assessor.

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.

dof’s property valuation and tax mapping is responsible for valuing more than one million properties in 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 field central unit seeks an experienced real estate professional with considerable knowledge of the principles, methods and techniques of real property appraisal, and demonstrated leadership and management abilities, to serve as a senior supervising assessor.

reporting to the senior director of field valuation, the selected candidate’s duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

• serves as primary borough office administrator; monitors supervising assessors, assessors, assistant assessors and support staff performance, productivity, and adherence to department time, leave, and other regulations.
• supervise a team of assessors, performing quality control of valuations, and review valuation methodology for assessment staff at that location.
• conduct regular meetings with staff to discuss policies and procedures. Hold weekly conferences with supervising assessors and staff as needed, to communicate goals and performance expectations. This includes monitoring performance, productivity, and staff adherence with the department's time and leave regulations and other department rules and guidelines.
• assist in developing, directing, and implementing new policy directives, programs, and strategies.
• implement borough-wide policy and procedures.
• handle and resolve operational issues, e.g., ensuring service to clients, inter‑agency matters, etc.
• respond to central quality control team.
• provide technical expertise and on‑spot training for staff.
• physically inspect and determine the assessed valuation of properties as required and assist staff with scheduling of assignments to ascertain that valuation goals are achieved.
• ensure general office operational issues are appropriately resolved.

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.

this position may be eligible for remote work up to 2 days per week, pursuant to the remote work pilot program agreed between the city and the collective bargaining unit representing employees serving in the civil service title.

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• a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and two years of satisfactory full‑time experience in real estate work involving the valuation of real property such as assessor, appraiser, valuation data manager, real property appraisal aide or the like. To be credited the experience must have been primarily gained in the performance of one or more of the following tasks: collection and recording of property inventory data, preparation of comparable sales analysis reports, preparation of signed valuation or appraisal estimates or reports using cost, income or market data approaches to value.
  
  Mere listing of real property for potential sale, or preparation of asking prices for real estate for potential sale, using multiple listing reports or other published asking prices is not qualifying experience; or
• an associate degree or 60 semester credits from an accredited college or university and three years of satisfactory full‑time experience in real estate work…