Senior Development Manager

Corporate Positions • New York, NY

13d • Hybrid

About The Position

Jonathan Rose Companies is a leading owner, developer, and operator of green affordable and mixed-income communities. Founded in 1989, Rose has created projects with more than $4.2 billion of value with a current portfolio of 19,000 apartment homes in 15 states and Washington DC. Our mission is to create a more environmentally thriving, socially just world through the development, preservation, renovation and management of green, affordable and mixed income housing. The firm is a fully integrated investment management, development and asset management company with construction management, solar energy, mortgage finance and title company affiliates. We strive to achieve positive environmental impact by investing in energy efficiency, decarbonization, and water conservation to reduce our use of natural resources and toxins. Our social impact is achieved by preserving and expanding housing affordability, and connecting our residents to health, education, financial, cultural and social services. And we aim to achieve these impacts in a co-creative process with governments, our residents and staff. We are signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (UN PRI), benchmark performance annually through GRESB, and align our reporting with the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) guidelines, SASB Standards, and GRI Standards. Our Development Team produces beautifully designed, affordable and mixed income, green buildings, which provide a platform for our Communities of Opportunity social and environmental programming. These incorporate health, social service, education, culture, and recreation programs for our residents. We design, plan and build sustainable communities, co-produced using expertise from across all of our core disciplines, sharing lessons, best practices and resources, with the goal of nurturing the common good and advancing affordable living. Our developments are duplicatable models of cost-effective, green, transit-oriented urban development that connect residents to opportunity to inform the national practice of development, help change policies and direct funding towards scalable solutions.

Requirements

• Responsible for leading development activities, including site/asset acquisition, entitlements, underwriting, land planning, design, construction, financing, lease-up and all other aspects of development.
• Serve as the day-to-day project lead of at least two mixed-income housing projects.

Responsibilities

• Leads in site feasibility analysis, RFP/RFQ proposals, and prepares necessary information to evaluate the development opportunity, including mixed-income and affordable housing feasibility, preliminary underwriting, and capital strategy
• Manage the public approval process, including meetings with public officials and community representatives in coordination with senior leadership.
• Performs day-to-day management and advancement of the project. Develops and monitors project schedule, budgets. Manages the design consultants and project team. Attends all regularly scheduled project oversight meetings. Facilitates community outreach. Prepares reports for management, investors and partners.
• Develops proformas and updates them as the project progresses, tracking development costs and budget variances, collaborating effectively with the Accounting Department. Maintains project underwriting, sources and uses, return analyses, and sensitivity analyses for mixed-income and affordable housing transactions.
• Prepares financing applications, RFP, offering plan, and sources construction and permanent financing, including debt, equity, tax credit equity, subsidy, and other public/private financing sources. Negotiates terms and day-to-day management of the closing process. Supports equity raise efforts, including preparation of investor materials and responses to capital partner due diligence
• Coordinates with project team in opening of the property, including coordination of model apartment, property management office set-up; coordinates with internal and external team to create marketing and leasing strategy for the completed development. Oversees lease-up activities, conversion to Permanent Financing and transition to Asset Management.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed