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Position Summary: Under the direction of the Supervisor, the Appraiser I performs responsible technical work in measuring, classifying, gathering data, recording and sketching to scale real estate improvements to include residential, commercial, agricultural, and personal properties. The employee in this position is responsible for appraisal decisions such as, depreciation of quality of construction, statistical analysis in determining land values and neighborhood assignments as well as performing the validation of sales according to well-defined procedures, rules and guidelines. The Appraiser I is also involved with decisions of final value and will provide documentation and justification of value at various hearing levels. The employee must have knowledge of the computer system and how to integrate the analysis in the system for listing and valuation of residential properties.

Examples of Work (Essential Functions):

Analyzes sales information to complete the formation of neighborhood

groups and land values for residential properties to be used in modeling;

Conducts yearly review of agricultural landuse;

Gathers and analyzes cost information to assist in the formation of

a County CostIndex;

Identifies and locates real estate property from plats, maps, legal

descriptions,personal computers, and tablets with various software programs andinformation;

Identifies and records construction @type, material, quality of

construction in a uniform matter (Quality);

Identifies and records depreciation, neighborhood locational factors

that may affect value of realestate;

Performs exterior and interior inspections, measures and sketches to

scale all @types of real property for sales validation, new construction, and to remain in compliance with statestatute;

Performs splits and combination of parcels in computersystem;

Tracks new construction according to statestatues;

Verifies sales data through interviews with property owners;

maintains and updates hard copy and computerfiles;

Responds to and answers phones, assists taxpayers, citizens, banks,

realtors, attorneys, lease holders with questions regarding appraised value, discovery process, exemptions, hearing process, appeals, penalties;

Analyzes facts in order to formulate estimates of values by the cost

approach, market approach, and income approach for all @types of properties, use statistical analysis;

Maintains accuracy level of data collected in the field for

compliance with maintenance specifications outlined by the Property Valuation Division;

Sets up and runs queries for quality control, performs quality

control checks of work performed by coworkers; performs audits of work internally and in thefield;

Assists with scheduling of real estate hearings as well coordination

and processing of necessary paperwork; conducts various hearing levels to support and defend all classes of realproperty;

Conducts field reviews and photograph of properties foraccuracy;

Performs final review and quality control ofvalues;

Records assets of properties following set procedure andpolicy;

Attends courses annually to maintain knowledge andeducation;

Performs other duties as deemed necessary or as required.

Abilities, Knowledge, Skills:

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions

furnished in written, oral, or diagram form;

Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra andgeometry;

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts,

interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, andvolume;

Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables

instandardized situations;

Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of communications,

convey and receive detailed or important instructions and information to and from the generalpublic;

Ability to follow oral and writtendirections;

Ability to read and interpret documents such as State of Kansas

guidelines,regulations, and applicable statutes, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals;

Ability to reliably and predictably carry outduties;

Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees

of anorganization;

Ability to use computer equipment isessential;

Ability to writelegibly;

Ability to write routine reports andcorrespondence;

Knowledge of constructionmaterial;

Knowledge of federal, state and local laws and regulations governing

appraisal forad valorem taxpurposes;

Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and

personal services;

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