Assessor

Role Responsibilities

Shape Alberta’s Future Through Fair and Accurate Assessments
Are you a property assessment professional Looking for a role that combines technical expertise, variety, and impact? Join Alberta’s Assessment Services Branch and help shape fair, consistent, and correct property assessments that support municipalities and communities province wide. Whether you’re seeking to grow your career, leverage your municipal experience, or expand your professional designation into new areas of industrial property, this opportunity offers challenge, collaboration, and meaningful impact—including exposure to a wide range of designated industrial property types such as major plants, industrial sites, and linear property facilities.

As an Assessor, you will prepare and defend property assessments for designated industrial properties, ensuring compliance with legislation and supporting Alberta’s municipal tax system. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary team that thrives on knowledge-sharing and innovation. Success in this role requires strong analytical skills, adaptability, and the ability to build collaborative relationships with stakeholders across government and industry.

Your key responsibilities include:
•    Preparing designated industrial property assessments and contributing to the provincial assessment roll.
•    Conducting field inspections and verifying property inventory for accuracy.
•    Analyzing complex data to support valuation models and assessment processes.
•    Collaborating with municipalities, property owners, and industry representatives to maintain effective relationships.
•    Defending assessments before the Land and Property Rights Tribunal as part of a team, including acting as an expert witness when required.
•    Developing and reviewing Requests for Information (RFI) to gather essential property data.
•    Preparing reports, briefing notes, and impact analyses to support policy and operational decisions.

This position requires regular travel throughout Alberta. It offers a dynamic work environment, ideal for individuals who enjoy a flexible and hands-on approach to their work.

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Build Collaborative Environments: Fostering trust and teamwork among colleagues, municipalities, and industry partners to achieve shared outcomes.
Drive for Results: Prioritizing tasks and maximizing resources to deliver accurate assessments within legislated timelines.
Creative Problem Solving: Applying innovative approaches to resolve complex valuation challenges and stakeholder concerns.
Systems Thinking: Taking a broad, long-term view to assess implications and align assessment practices with organizational goals

Qualifications

Requirements:
•    Any of the following designations: Accredited Municipal Assessor of Alberta (AMAA); Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute (AACI); Certified Assessment Evaluator (CAE); Member Institute of Municipal Assessors (MIMA) .
•    A related university degree and a minimum of four (4) years of related experience. Equivalencies will be considered. 
•    Valid Alberta Class 5 driver’s licence or equivalent, and ability to travel within Alberta.
•    Experience in the preparation, delivery, and defense of property assessments.

Equivalencies: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:
A related two-year diploma and a minimum of six (6) years of related experience; 

Assets:

•    A minimum of five years of experience in the preparation, delivery and defence of industrial property assessments using the accepted approaches to value property and appropriate mass appraisal techniques.
•    Subject Matter Expert on oil and gas field equipment and facilities, or other heavy industrial equipment
•    In depth knowledge of reading and interpreting process and instrumentation drawings for the determination of DI property assessments.
•    Comprehensive working knowledge of the Municipal Government Act and related legislations
•    Analytic and logical reasoning skills
•    Knowledge about the administration of a municipality
•    Strong awareness of provincial policies and legal precedents

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards

Notes

Term of Employment: Permanent full-time position

Hours of Work:  36.25 hours per week/ Monday to Friday

Location: Grande Prairie, Lethbridge, Vermilion, Wood Buffalo, Red Deer, Morinville, Lloydminster, Hanna, Edmonton, Calgary and other potential regional offices

Relocation assistance will be considered.
 
Final candidates may be required to undergo security screening.

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level. 

 
Note:
Applicants are advised to provide a cover letter summarizing information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies. 

Additional Information:
In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. As well, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time, or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 – June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).

What Sets Us Apart
•    Relocation Assistance: May be available for candidates.
•    Diverse Assessment Experience: Exposure to a wide range of industrial property types. 
•    Province Wide Impact: Contribute to equitable assessment standards that support communities across Alberta.
•    Collaborative Team Culture: Work with experts who value problem-solving, knowledge-sharing, and mutual support.
•    Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy flexible work arrangements, a comprehensive benefit package and a workplace culture that values learning and collaboration.
o    Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca
o    Public Service benefits - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits 
•    Career Development: Access training, mentorship, and advancement opportunities.
o    https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive
o    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool - https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca

Work Life Balance: Benefit from programs and policies that promote a positive workplace culture and flexibility.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

•    Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
•    Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
•    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
•    Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.