City Assessor/Hearing Officer

About This Role

This role involves conducting hearings and making determinations on applications for correcting real property tax assessments, including valuations related to the City's new non-primary residence surcharge. The work includes researching, analyzing, and valuing various property types, especially complex and high-value ones, for administrative assessment review. The determinations may use any of the three recognized approaches to real property valuation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct hearings and make determinations on applications for correction of real property tax assessments, including valuation determinations related to the City's new non-primary residence surcharge
• Evaluate credibility and weight of information presented in support of applications
• Research, analyze, and value all types of properties, including extremely complex properties of very high assessed value, for administrative assessment review
• Determine offers after in-depth analysis with all three recognized approaches to value and after consultation with supervisor(s), as necessary
• May supervise, coordinate, and assign work of subordinate employees
• Conduct physical inspections of properties when necessary
• Attend outreach sessions to assist property owners and real estate representatives in understanding the NYC Real Property Assessment System
• Conduct virtual and in-person hearings with lawyers, legal representatives, property owners, and City Assessors at the Department of Finance
• Assist with special projects as directed

Requirements

• Experienced in using Microsoft Office applications such as Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Word

For Positions Not Requiring State Board Certification:

• 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 involving the valuation of real property as described above; or
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and four years of satisfactory full-time experience in real estate involving the valuation of real property as described above; or
• Education and/or experience equivalent to the above. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and at least two years of satisfactory full-time related experience

For Positions Requiring State Board Certification:

• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and four years of satisfactory full time experience in an occupation 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
• Graduation from an accredited two-year college and three years of the experience described above; or
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of the experience described above; or
• Education and/or experience equivalent to the above. A written commitment from the county director that the county will provide training in assessment administration, approved by the State Board, within a six-month period may be substituted for six months of the required experience. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and at least 18 months of satisfactory full-time related experience