Appraiser

Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for USACE for Real Estate Personnel to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: Serves as an Appraiser in USACE Baltimore District, performing and directing complex real estate valuations, technical appraisal reviews, and valuation consulting for civil works, military, and environmental projects.

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Duties

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• Plan and coordinate appraisal projects across the District, including real estate valuation and property interests for acquisition, management, and disposal.
• Conduct appraisals for acquisition and disposal involving complex properties, such as residential/commercial subdivisions, industrial tracts, utilities, quarries, marinas, airports, and multi-use developments.
• Determine fair cash-market values for fee title, qualified fee, leasehold interests, and complex easements.
• Conduct technical reviews of staff and contract appraisals regardless of amount, inspecting subject and comparable properties as needed and preparing written findings and recommendations.
• Perform final technical reviews of appraisals to support real estate negotiations with property owners.
• Inspect properties and develop valuation calculations using comparable sales and highest-and-best-use analyses (before and after partial takings).
• Conduct detailed inspections of government-owned lands, buildings, and improvements to establish current rental, sale, or salvage values for leasing or disposal.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• The incumbent must obtain and maintain a Certified General Appraiser certification.
• The incumbent must maintain quals as appraiser. The conditions of cert and licensing were extended to federal appraisers by virtue of the ER 405-1-4. This includes min of five years' exp. in real estate appraising as Certified General Appraiser.
• Travel is required 25% of the time.
• Incumbent is required to obtain and maintain a valid state driver's license.
• Incumbent is required to submit a Financial Disclosure Statement, OGE-450, (5CFR Part 2634, Subpart I USOGE, 6/08. Executive Branch Personnel Confidential Financial Disclosure Report upon entering the position and annually.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

GS-12 Specialized Experience

One year of specialized experience which includes:1) Directing end-to-end valuation services; and 2) Coordinating complex workload distributions; and 3) Delivering comprehensive appraisal consulting across a diverse portfolio of conventional and specialized property types. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience aloneno substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
• You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest.
• Direct Deposit of Pay is required.
• This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
• Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
• If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
• This is a(n) Engineers and Scientists (Resources and Construction) Career Program position aligned under the Construction, Analysis, Science, Infrastructure & Engineers (CASIE) Career Management Directorate.
• Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.
• Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
• Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.
• A Relocation Incentive may be authorized for this position subject to agency determination.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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