Job Description

Job Title: Chief Development Officer - Remote

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Provides strategic oversight for the following functions: Development, Planning, and Engineering.
• Oversee acquisition, development, and redevelopment opportunities of new sites on time and on budget.
• Direct the work of the Real Estate Development team and coordinate development work with other development staff.
• Oversee the competitive selection, bid, negotiation, and contracting for third-party services to produce quality results.
• Produce timely and cost-effective performance from the project team, including architect/engineer, attorney, specialty consultants, and general contractor.
• Supervise the overall development process from site selection and acquisition, securing land use and entitlement approvals, securing permits, completing construction documents, overseeing construction/rehab, completing lease-up and permanent loan conversion.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project schedules and checklists with milestones for entitlements, financing, permitting, and construction.
• Coordinate team responsibilities to meet deadlines and goals, fulfill reporting requirements and provide updates to the CEO and the Board Members.
• Provide focused leadership and expertise to project design, construction, and cost containment.
• Establish ongoing, constructive working relationships with peers, contractors, funders (equity and debt), regulatory entities, community leaders, and government partners.
Qualifications and Requirements:
• Minimum 15 years of real estate development and project management experience preferably.
• Track record in developing successful real estate projects on budget and on time.
• Education and/or extensive experience in construction, design, or engineering is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of architectural plans, mechanical and building systems, new construction, and construction costs and site plans.
• Proven capacity to supervise a talented team of real estate professionals and to get high performance from consultants.
• Focused, efficient, and results-oriented.
• Strong organizational skills and self-directed work habits.
• Able to anticipate deadlines.
• Able to review complex legal documents and identify key business points and manage multiple complex projects, often with overlapping deadlines.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• If you are tasked to drive as a part of this role, then it is required that you have a clean driving record and a current Driver's License that is not suspended or expired.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

EEO-1 Category: Executive/Senior Level Officials and Managers