The City of Manassas Park is seeking an experienced, innovative, and highly skilled professional to serve as City Assessor. This position is responsible for assessing real property within the City at fair market value in accordance with the Code of Virginia. The City Assessor oversees all real estate valuation activities, ensures accuracy and equity in assessments, and serves as the City’s subject matter expert on real property valuation.

The position operates with a high degree of independence under general supervision, reporting to the Finance Department while coordinating closely with other departments. The City Assessor supports Finance and the City Manager by providing data, analysis, and information related to assessments, revenues, and budget development.

All positions at the City of Manassas Park require a customer service mindset, in accordance with the Customer Service-related focus of the City.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Administers and oversees all residential, commercial, and industrial real property assessments.
• Leads the implementation, configuration, and ongoing management of the City’s Catalis CAMA system.
• Integrates emerging technologies, including the C3 AI application or similar tools, to improve assessment efficiency, accuracy, and analysis.
• Conducts and oversees field inspections, data collection, sales analysis, and valuation modeling.
• Ensures accuracy and integrity of assessment records, parcel data, ownership information, and sales data.
• Supervises, trains, and evaluates assessment staff; establishes work priorities and ensures compliance with professional standards and statutory requirements.
• Coordinates assessment activities with Planning, Finance, and other departments, including subdivision review and tax map assignments.
• Prepares real estate tax base projections and provides assessment data to support budget development and financial planning.
• Represents and defends the City’s assessments before the Board of Equalization and Circuit Court as required.
• Responds to inquiries from residents, taxpayers, appraisers, legal counsel, and City leadership.
• Ensures compliance with Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and Uniform Assessment Practice and Procedures.
• In addition to the above-mentioned job responsibilities, all positions at the City of Manassas Park are expected to promote a culture of civility, where respectful engagement, open communication, and collaboration are standard practices. These skills and expectations are equally important as the functional requirements of this position.

Minimum Education, Training and Experience

• Requires undergraduate degree and a minimum of six (6) years of assessment experience in residential, commercial, and industrial appraisals with management or administrative experience.
• Experience using CAMA and GIS and other tax related software.
• Hold a Certified General Appraiser license or have the knowledge and experience to qualify.
• Must be in good standing with the Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulations or can provide similar documentation from another state.
• Strong commercial appraisal experience.
• Proven supervisory or management experience.
• Requires valid Driver’s License.

Preferred Qualifications

• Local government experience.
• A member of an Assessor Association such as the VAAO and IAAO or equivalent professional credentials.
• Certification as an expert witness regarding real estate valuation.

ADA Compliance

The City of Manassas Park is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Manassas Park will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

1. Requires light work involving standing or walking some of the time and moderate dexterity in operating machinery, tools, or office equipment.
2. The position is exposed to extreme heat/cold, wet, or humid conditions, bright/dim lights, dust or pollen, intense noise levels, heights, traffic, and animals/wildlife.
3. The position requires normal visual acuity and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, depth perception, and texture perception.

Authorized hiring range: $110,000.00 - $130,000.00

If you are interested in becoming a member of our team, you must complete an application form and submit it to the: City of Manassas Park, Human Resources Department, 100 Park Central Plaza, Manassas Park, VA 20111 or fax/email: 703-335-0053 / humanresources@manassasparkva.gov

You may obtain an employment application by going to the following link:
https://manassaspark.rja.revize.com/forms/3556

First Submission Review: January 23, 2026

The City of Manassas Park is committed to ensuring diversity in its workplace, and candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.