Lead Appraiser
What you'd do
This position serves as a Senior Appraiser, Construction and Valuation (C&V), The purpose of this position is to serve as a senior 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. The Senior Appraiser is a technical expert that has extensive knowledge of Uniform Standard of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP).
Major duties
Specific 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 Operation: 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 recommendations to management for final action for 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: Conveys information in ways that are best and easily understood by the numerous and diverse group of clients. This may be accomplished through written correspondence, telephone, or personal contacts. 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, 8:00am to 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only. The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday. Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval. Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Lead Appraiser; GS-12 PD 40109-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement:07/20/2026. 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. For a GS-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11 level. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT: You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-12 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: Specialized experience is defined as possessing an expert knowledge of and 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 an extensive knowledge of appraisal concepts and practices to appraise and/or review the appraisals of property with complex characteristics and to analyze complicated valuation problems. Education Substitution: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. Combining Education & Experience: If you do not fully meet the length of experience and education described for a specific grade level (e.g. have six months of experience and some coursework but not a degree), the two can be combined to total 100% of the requirement. Click here for more information. 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; religions; 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. 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/.
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