Do you contact the search chair before applying for a position?
In general, it is a good idea to contact people you are applying to. They might say that they are looking for someone with your background (or with another).

But if they write


  send the application, we will review it


just do it. There is no shortcut. 

Don't expect that they will write how likely are you to get accepted - even forgetting about the legal things, they don't what are the other applicants.