Field Research Photographer

Is your cubicle closing in on you? Would you enjoy the flexibility and independence to have your office be the great outdoors but the stability of a 40 hour work week with guaranteed income and bonus opportunity? Do you have an interest in Real Estate and a desire to learn the industry? Then consider joining the CoStar Field Research Team. We will provide a company car with company gas card, a laptop, and camera equipment !

Field Research Photographers are responsible for finding new listings and adding them to the database, collecting data on and photographing all commercial properties in their defined geographic working area.

Essential functions:

• Photograph and collect data on all commercial properties with for lease and for sale signs working in entire assigned territory
• Contact brokers to obtain leasing and/or sale information on properties collected as leads
• Drive square mile areas, within core territory, searching for all commercial properties, flexible schedule based on weather possible
• Link property tax record to the data record they create for the building
• Collect all visible data fields about the property including, but not limited to, the address, bldg type, # of stories, gross building area, bldg height, industrial loading information, retail specific details
• Use Photoshop software to correct digital images
• Travel up to 2 weeks or more per month within assigned territory
• Rooftop geocode all properties
• Create footprint for each building using polygon tool in field mapping software
• Associate any assigned tenant locations to polygon, and photograph tenant space
• Link multiple polygons to one CoStar building i.d. to associate multiple buildings at one shopping center
• Follow daily Field Research procedures involving regular communication with manager and uploading data
• Understand and maintain a pre-determined measure of quality for daily work as well as special projects
• Add at least 25 buildings per day when grid canvassing
• Scan at least 200 buildings per day, resulting in an average minimum of 25 new potential listings (leasing and/or sale signs) per day when working on lead project
• Abide by CoStar safety standards
• Maintain company vehicle and equipment
• Represent CoStar in a professional manner at all times
• Represent Field Research at occasional trade functions

• B.A./B.S. degree strongly preferred
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and organizational skills
• Ability to learn and apply real estate concepts
• Ability to learn and apply mapping and GIS concepts
• Clean driving record
• Knowledge of Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet applications, Photoshop or comparable software
• Experience in Digital Photography

CoStar Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSGP) is the number one provider of information/marketing services to commercial real estate professionals in the United States as well as the United Kingdom. CoStar's suite of services offers customers access via the Internet to the most comprehensive database of commercial real estate information throughout the U.S. as well as in the United Kingdom and France. Headquartered in Bethesda, MD, CoStar has approximately 1,300 people working for the company worldwide, including the largest professional research organization in the industry.

Our strength as a business and our reputation as an employer of choice has been recognized by:

• Deloitte's Maryland Technology Fast 50
• Business 2.0 Magazine's List of 100 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies (CoStar Ranks 48th)

• Comprehensive medical, dental, prescription and vision benefits with a choice of two plans.
• Company-paid life insurance for one time's your annual base salary to a maximum of $300,000 per year.
• Company-paid long-term and short-term disability benefits.

12 days accrued paid vacation 1st year; 5 days sick leave per year, and 2 personal