Job Description
Summary With a growing portfolio of commercial and residential property parcels, King County’s Department of Assessments is looking for interested applicants to apply for the Abstract Technician position. This position plays a vital role in advancing our mission to ensure fair and equitable property tax administration by performing complex legal description analysis and review, as well as providing outstanding customer service to our taxpayers. King County’s Department of Assessments is looking for a dynamic and collaborative property legal description and chain of legal custody analyst to support the daily administration of the County’s legal property description maintenance. We are looking for action-oriented, creative thinkers who can multitask and bring their property parcel and chain of title administrative skills and desire for excellence to this role. This position will focus on customer service and support to help the department achieve its commitment to be "The Best Assessments Department in North America". The Department of Assessments is seeking an employee who possesses strong functional and technical skills when working with legal descriptions, cadastral maps, chain of title, or property issues, and who understands the value of maintaining the configuration and integrity of King County’s real property tax assessment parcel data and providing support to the King County Assessor, Accounting Division Director, and/or designee in resolving property, taxpayer, chain of title, issues. Are you... Familiar with and able to understand Business and basic legal/property boundary descriptions? Capable of drafting basic legal/property boundary descriptions? Able to write concise legal descriptions ; proportion or prorate assessed value and revise maps to reconfigure parcels as related to basic segregations and mergers or lot line adjustments, based on recorded conveyances, court documents, and taxpayer requests. Organized and attentive to detail? Can you work to resolve a variety of basic tax parcel/property identification problems? Can you apply tax status changes to parcels based on legal conveyances between public and private entities, and other property transactions? An entry level research-oriented processional with the ability to identify the chain of custody and ownership of properties using varied sources of information? Can you back up your decision and title searches with verifiable data? Can you interpret, research and resolve basic parcel discrepancies based on deeds, customer requests or court orders? An entry level customer service star? Do you have strong property and title search and property/real estate customer service skills to assist property owners and other representatives regarding problems/resolutions relating to title, taxes and other situations? Can you correspond with property owners and other representatives regarding problems/resolutions relating to title, taxes, and other situations? Job Duties The successful candidate will: Maintain the configuration of King County's real property tax assessment parcel structure. Write concise legal descriptions proportion or prorate assessed value and revise maps to reconfigure parcels as related to basic segregations and mergers or lot line adjustments, based on recorded conveyances, court documents and taxpayer requests. Research and resolve basic parcel discrepancies based on deeds, customer requests, or court orders. Work to resolve a variety of basic tax parcel problems. Alter tax status of parcels based on conveyances between public and private entities, split accounts, prorate assessed values, and initiate refund procedure. Interpret basic legal descriptions and technical documents for internal and external customers. Correspond with property owners and other representatives regarding problems/resolutions relating to title, taxes, and other situations. Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WITH: Strong background in real estate terminology, principles & practice. A background in title and property transactions . The ability to perform property title research, chain of custody, & conveyance. Solid analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team in a collaborative, team-centered environment. Strong Customer focus with a dedication to integrity, ethics, trust, and values. The ability to read