Director of Valuation – AMC Full Time

This position provides objective, impartial and unbiased opinions about the value of real property for a variety of clients and intended users. The main responsibility is reviewing appraisal reports for USPAP and FIRREA compliance, along with the reasonableness of final value conclusion, and various assumptions utilized to reach conclusion. Other functions include comprehensive and detailed market research, Standard 3 Technical Review report writing, and auditing complex financial models (Argus) for accuracy, as well as significant client interaction.

• Manage client appraisal workflow through the RIMS system through bidding, engaging, and monitoring appraisal service requests from our clients.  This includes ensuring the service requests have sufficient information to create the RFP’s, selecting the appropriate firms to receive the RFP’s for each assignment, and selecting suitable firms to complete each assignment.  Post award, any issues that arise regarding appraisal scope, data, access, timeliness, etc., are managed with the vendors and clients.
• Ensuring work process is done in conformity with FIRREA and banking regulations, including the 2010 Interagency Appraisal and Evaluation Guidelines.  This includes protecting appraiser independence, approving third-party appraisers, and ensuring communications between lenders and borrowers, and the appraisers is done in an appropriate manner.  This also includes working out on-going issues with vendors to achieve corrective action either through improved performance or removal from the approved list.
• Working with our clients’ representatives to resolve any issues that may arise regarding the appraisal process such as questions on specific appraisals, status updates, process workflow, maintaining regulatory compliance, etc.
• Working with internal Cushman and Wakefield staff to maximize efficiency and maintaining a cohesive workflow.  This includes working with staff on issues relating to proper processing of appraisal requests when questions arise, escalating issues as necessary, and proof-reading reviews from review appraisers for quality control purposes.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Regularly required to travel outside between properties in varying weather conditions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others and exchange accurate information; operate a computer and other office productivity machinery; move about the workplace; remain in a stationary position for 95% of the time; and extend hands and arms in any direction.

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