Assessment GIS Technician w/City of Denver (CO)

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​About the Department of Finance
The Department of Finance manages the city’s investing, fiscal analysis, budgeting, debt and asset management, tax assessment and collection, and accounting functions as well as establishing, maintaining and enforcing fiscal policies, practices and procedures for the entire City and County of Denver. The Department commits to Denver residents the delivery of these services through a financial structure that mirrors the best practices of both the public and private sectors. This commitment promotes better service, enhanced performance measures, maximum accountability and improved business processes.

​About the Assessment Division
The Assessment Division locates, appraises and records all of Denver's real and personal properties in accordance with the Colorado Constitution, State statutes and Board of Equalization procedures. The Assessor certifies valuations to several special tax districts and tracks values and annual tax increments within the City's various tax increment financing (TIF) districts. The Division prepares and delivers the tax warrant to the Treasurer; maintains records on tax exemptions for seniors and other populations; generates value notices for all taxpayers; and processes written and in-person valuation protests and appeals.

Diversity in the City
The City and County of Denver is committed to cultivating a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion. This commitment is woven into our values and belief that we are strongest when we embrace and celebrate our differences. We aim to have employees who are as diverse as our residents, with different perspectives and unique ways of thinking. If you share these values and our enthusiasm for equity, we encourage you to apply to join our team.

The Department of Finance is seeking a dedicated and motivated Assessment GIS Technician within the Assessment Division to perform technical assessment land record management work involving GIS mapping systems, researching historical documents, and verifying the accuracy of deeds and legal descriptions for the splitting, combining, and recreating of land parcels for the transfer and ownership of property.

Additionally, the Assessment GIS Technician:

• Performs entry-level work while training to independently perform routine work in reconfiguring parcels of land using GIS mapping system and database, which includes ensuring supporting documents are accurate and plat surveys match, plotting and mapping out legal descriptions to confirm accuracy of deeds, researches records to determine existing boundaries, works with customers regarding document issues, splits, combines, or recreates parcels in system as stipulated by legal description, and sends notice to customer with new parcel identification for records.
• Learns to perform routine level work processing deeds and property ownership transfers, which includes simple warranty deed transfers between two parties, and complex deed transfers involving multiple parcels requiring title and land survey research work, determining percentage of ownership, verifying legal descriptions on deeds, ensuring accuracy of documents, notifying customers of issues, updating systems records and customers of ownership transfers.
• Uses GIS software to create accurate grid references through coordinate geometry and trace digitization tools to conform with land surveyor notations and deed legal descriptions to create accurate parcel maps within the assessment property management system.
• Works with stakeholders both internal and external to the city to verify accuracy of deeds and legal descriptions and other property documents, researches land survey issues and chains-of-title, working with customers regarding property transfer requests, answers technical questions regarding parcel ownership, and prepares customer notices involving issues of property conveyance and records corrections.
• Learns to perform routine level work processing parcel reconfigurations for the state and city, updating special tax district boundaries, creating GIS maps for presentations, and entering or deleting property addresses within the database for Public Works permit projects.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested

About You
We are looking for someone with some or all the following skills and experience:

• Working knowledge in ArcGIS/COGO
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite

We realize your time is valuable so please do not apply if you do not have at least the following required minimum qualifications:

• Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree in GIS or land surveying, or related field of study.
• Experience Requirement: Three (3) years of experience using GIS mapping systems, or land surveying, or working with property titles and deeds.
• Education and Experience Equivalency: One (1) year of the appropriate type and level of experience may be substituted for each required year of post-high school education.
• Additional appropriate education may be substituted for the minimum experience requirements.