Lead Appraiser

To 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/.
This position serves as a Lead Appraiser, Construction and Valuation (C&V). The purpose of this position is to serve as a Lead appraiser in the RLC for the lending industry, appraisers, and to perform quality-control field reviews and post audit reviews of appraisals prepared in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Home Loan Program.