Program Specialist

Note: Current Employees must use the Workday Job Hubs career section to apply for this position. The mission of Yakima County Government is to provide accessible, responsive and responsible public service through leadership and teamwork committed to understanding and meeting public needs. Our Values: Integrity Common Sense Innovation Accountability Position Data: Program Specialist-J23-U10-H Regular Non-Exempt (eligible for overtime) Overview: Pay Range: $22.58 - $28.63 per hour (AFSCME -87 Pay Plan, B22 Step 1 - 13) Hiring Range: $22.58 - $23.96 per hour (AFSCME -87 Pay Plan, B22 Step 1 - 4 DOQ) Job Closing Date: December 18, 2025 There is a Program Specialist (Personal Property Auditor) vacancy in the Yakima County Assessor's Office.

This position is responsible for the auditing and processing of all personal property assessments for the County by using state guidelines and depreciation schedules.

• Creates a decision-making process that ensures equitability for all assessments.

Speaks with taxpayers and tax service corporations regarding the validity of personal property filings.

• Maintains personal property manufactured homes, processing title applications, title eliminations, mobile homes in parks databases.

Completes of segregations and merges of all manufactured homes (personal and real property mobile homes).

• Researches historical documents and title information regarding manufactured homes.

Crossed trained in some of the basics of the cadastral technician position to supply back up customer service in the event of absences.

Benefits:

included in position: Health Care

Benefits:

(Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life and Basic LTD) Retirement

Benefits:

Paid Vacation Paid Holidays Paid Sick Leave Note: This is a AFSCME 87 Master Contract Bargaining Unit position. This recruitment may be used to fill future vacancies that occur within 90 days of the closing of this position. (This excludes Yakima County Sheriff's Office and Department of Corrections)

Responsibilities:

• Processes, audits and inspects personal property and applications to ensure equitable assessment of all personal property in the County by conducting physical inspection audits, desk audits, review audits, phone audits and detailed book audits regarding the annual assessment of personal property.
• Processes all mobile home title eliminations, merges and segregations by maintaining manufactured housing records of mobile home parks and mobile homes located on real property with different ownership.

Respond to questions and concerns of property owners and general public; prepare a variety of correspondence to property owners and other agencies for title transfer and other purposes.

• Creates, reads and interprets a variety of graphic materials such as recorded plats, segregations, land us maps engineering drawings, blueprints and or transparencies to verify parcel boundaries.

Other duties required.

Education:

and

Experience:

High School Diploma or GED AND 4 years of real estate/ title clerk

experience:

, data entry; OR an equivalent combination of

experience:

or training which provides the knowledge,

skills:

and abilities sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job. Required: Valid WA State Driver’s License and proof of insurance, if requested. Successful completion of general employment verification. Equipment Used: Computer 1 - 6; Telephone 3, 5; GPS Unit 1, 2; Calculator 1 – 6; Photocopier 1 – 6; Micro Fiche Machine 1, 3, 5,passenger vehicle Working Conditions: This position is rated as Sedentary Work, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met. Environment: Exposure to weather, Travel, Field Work, May be exposed to hostile / angry individuals; work outside of standard business hours and locations.

Physical Demands: Bending, Carrying, Handling, Lifting, Pulling, Pushing, Reaching, Sitting, Standing, Walking, Fingering, Balancing, Climbing, Crawling, Crouching, Kneeling, Reclining, Hearing, Smelling, Talking, Visual Acuity. Intellectual Demands: Ability to Multitask, Confidentiality, Ability to work under pressure, articulate and communicate information in conversations, follow written and verbal instruction.

Knowledge: Mathematical computations Surveying theories and principles Maintenance procedures of equipment used Customer Service Techniques Laws, rules and regulations related to assignment area Basic theories and principles of determining property value Land Surveying techniques, theories and principles

Skills:

and Abilities: Reading Maps Inventorying materials and supplies Reading and interpreting blueprints, schematics, and plans Writing complex parcel legal

description:

s Drafting complex parcel boundaries Reviewing drawings and plans for compliance with codes and regulations Applying Surveying techniques and practices Preparing technical reports and graphic presentations Using computers and related software applications Establishing and maintaining effective interpersonal relationships at all organizational levels and with the public Communication - both oral and written, sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.

“AN EQUAL:

OPPORTUNITY:

EMPLOYER” Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and the Disabled are encouraged to apply. Yakima County ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of a person’s age, color, creed, sensory, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, national origin, political belief, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and military status, or any other protected status under federal or state statute.

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired

about:

, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the

compensation:

information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to

compensation:

information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish the information. Disabled applicants may request accommodation to participate in the job application and/or selection process for employment.

Please contact Human Resources for further information. Yakima County is a qualified Public Service entity for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service or contact your federal loan servicer. In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Yakima County will hire only United States citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States.

Yakima County is an E-Verify Employer. Yakima County is one of the largest employers with over 1,000 employees providing services in all areas of law and justice, corrections, administration, public services and social services. Work locations are throughout the Valley and vary based on department. Check out the County’s website at www.yakimacounty.us for more information.

Eligibility for

benefits:

are dependent upon Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) and if your position type is full-time, part-time, or intermittent. Medical, Dental, Prescription and Vision Coverage Basic Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance Coverage Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Health Reimbursement Account (HRA- VEBA) Health Savings Account (HSA) Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Voluntary

Benefits:

– vision, term life, critical illness, disability and other insurance plans Washington State Retirement Plan (DRS) 457 Deferred

Compensation:

Program (DCP) Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays and Sick Leave Click here for a full list of Yakima County

Benefits:

Located in Central Washington, Yakima County is large (4,200 square miles) and diverse. Residents enjoy 300 days of sunshine each year and four distinct seasons. Yakima County is ranked first in the state in agricultural production, and is one of the top five areas in the nation in production of specialty crops.

Irrigated farmlands and rolling foothills provide a backdrop to the nearby Cascade Mountains. Around 70 percent of the County’s 226,000 residents live in its 14 cities, towns and urban growth areas. The unique blend of rural and urban lifestyle choices offers a quality of living unsurpassed in the Northwest.

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