DutiesSpecific duties include:
Team Lead: - Serves as a team leader over multiple review appraisers working in remote locations, with the majority of the team at the GS-11 level.
- Serves as subject matter expert with high degree of technical proficiency, coach, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.
- Ensures that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision and values are communicated to an assigned team and integrated into the team's objectives and output.
Oversight of Full Range of C&V Operations: - Completes oversight tasks to ensure operations meet all applicable VA program performance goals, policies, and procedures, including oversight of external program participants including fee personnel and personnel at VA approved lenders and servicers associated with appraisal activities.
- Performs a full range complex appraisal review processes to ensure established values, appraisal reports and notice of value (NOV) meet VA and industry standards.
- Reviews, facilitates, and approves applications and waiver requests and makes recommendation to management for final action for construction and stakeholder complaints, and assists in determining appropriate disciplinary actions or sanctions against stakeholders who violate VA and industry standards.
Appraisal Review: - The lead appraiser is responsible for a wide range of complex appraisal review related responsibilities to ensure established values, appraisal reports and notice of value (NOV) meet VA and industry standards.
- Serves as a technical expert and maintains close managerial coordination with C&V management.
- Reviews appraisals of real property, including existing, new, and proposed properties, consisting of one to four living units for the purposes of loan origination, liquidation, and partial release.
Customer Service: - Communicates clearly with Veteran, Veteran-designees, contractors, officials, and other stakeholders throughout the construction, remodeling, or adaptation process.
- Organizes, develops, and leads periodic formal and informal training to fee personnel, program participants, and other parties/organizations including but not limited to trade organizations and VA staff.
Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday 6:00am-6:00pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Lead Appraiser; PD # 38945 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required RequirementsConditions of Employment- 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
QualificationsTo qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:10/09/2024. TIME-IN-GRADE REQUIREMENT: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. You must provide a copy of your most recent SF-50 that indicates proof of status, and shows Time in Grade (for example, you were a career or career-conditional employee) and identifies your position title, series, grade, step, salary, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must also submit your most recent promotion or within-grade increase in addition to your recent SF-50. If you previously held a higher grade, you must also submit any SF-50 showing that grade. DO NOT submit Award SF-50's and/or General Adjustment SF-50's as they cannot be used to prove time-in-grade. - For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 level.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-12 Level: Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-11) in the normal line of progression for this position. - Specialized Experience: is defined as a skill in applying a wide range of concepts, valuation approaches, practices, regulations, policies, precedents, analytical and diagnostic techniques, and procedures related to VA guidelines and Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practices. The incumbent also should have experience in appraisal concepts and practices to appraise and/or review the appraisals of property with complex characteristics and to analyze complicated valuation problems.
Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Full vs. Part-Time Employment: Full-time employment is considered to be at least 35 hours per week. Part-time experience will be credited on a pro-rated basis; when including part-time employment in your resume you must specify the average hours worked per week. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary with most travel by automobile, air, or other public transportation. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at http://://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/. Additional informationVA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
The Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified (have a final rating of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/.
Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement.
It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer (TJO). Please visit the Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP), https://www.va.gov/EMPLOYEE/docs/The-Fair-Chance-to-Compete-Act.pdf A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits. Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
|
