Data Collector - Cranbrook, Canada - BC Assessment

BC Assessment

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Cranbrook, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Start or grow your career within property assessment and support the strong and vibrant communities in British Columbia that we live, work and play in BC Assessment is currently looking for Data Collectors to join the Cranbrook or Nelson office

Organization Overview

BC Assessment is a Provincial Crown Corporation that develops and maintains real property assessments throughout British Columbia in addition to providing real property information.

BC Assessment serves the citizens of British Columbia and has 13 offices throughout the province.

At BC Assessment, our people and culture are important to us. We work together to create a culture that appreciates differences in all forms. We trust and respect each other, and are invited to bring our whole selves to work.

We are committed to making BC Assessment the best possible place to work, and through our efforts ultimately contribute to a better British Columbia.

Our digitally agile, service-centric employees are productive, engaged, and work collaboratively in a modern flexible workplace. Our employees are at the heart of our organization and we are proud to be recognized as one of

BC's Top Employers

for the tenth year

At BC Assessment, we offer competitive

benefits

for our employees:

Worklife balance 35hour work weeks, hybrid work options and flexible work schedules.
Public Service Pension Plan one of the best in Canada, allowing you to plan for your future.
Health and Wellness generous extended health and dental benefits through Pacific Blue Cross and an Employee Assistance Program to help support our employees overall wellbeing.
We offer a reducedcost bus pass through the BC Transit ProPASS program.
Career development we want you to grow and learn with us We provide ongoing learning, leadership development and career development scholarship program.

We are committed to ensuring that reasonable accommodations are made available to persons with disabilities during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes and will provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

If you require assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please

contact us.

Job Overview

The Assessment and Customer divisions are responsible for the creation and defence of the annual assessment roll.

Through the services provided, we reflect the strategic importance of customers and ensure customer-centricity and accountability for the customer process.

As a Data Collector, you would be responsible for supporting the assessment function by collecting physical, economic, legal and related data on assigned property types and performing administrative functions related to the production of the annual assessment roll.

This critical role may involve travel of up to 6-12 weeks per year, depending on location.

Learn more about

Property Assessment

Key Accountabilities

Roll Preparation and Defence:

Performs inspections on new properties, or changes to existing properties; measures to verify accuracy or identify changes to be made to assessment records.
Conducts inventory collection, verification and data maintenance work. Assigns manual class on improvements.
Reviews sale documentation for prices and financing to determine the nature of the sale and Manufactured Home documentation for relevant transactions
Retrieves electronic or hard copy documents (e.g. building plans, webfiche, landuse maps, and property records) and correctly codes associated folios.

General Administration:

Opens and distributes incoming mail; reconciles invoices; inputs data into databases; records and tracks receipt of incoming responses; tracks distribution and receipt of documents for a variety of properties.
Prepares and sends outgoing mail to property owners and others; tracks returns from property owners.
Updates address changes in the system.
Maintains a multiuser electronic filing system by filing, storing and/or retrieving a variety of documents; archives and disposes of documents.
Develops and formats spreadsheets, graphs, charts and forms

Quality Assurance:

Reviews and verifies ownership information/data for the purposes of identifying inconsistencies and correcting codes (e.g. sales documents, income and expense statements; type of ownership; ownership changes; quality assurance audits, etc.)
Reviews and verifies accuracy of vendor or property information (e.g. titles, legal description, property size; joint tenants or tenants in common; and legal terms; etc.).

Customer Service and Other Duties:

Represents BC Assessment's interests when interacting with clients, such as property owners while inspecting properties, and with local government staff when gathering information.
Responds to Regional and Departmental inquiries related to work programs and data collection.
Conducts routine internal data audits; reviews and corrects coding or data errors.
Queries, sorts and compiles data for the purposes of analysis and identifies inconsisten