Senior Owner's Representative

Description

Title: Senior Owner’s Representative

Employee Status: Full-time Exempt

Salary: Grade 6

Starts at $92,000 | Chicago 

Reports to: Lead Owner’s Representative

Department: Real Estate Solutions

Location: Chicago

Hybrid Remote: In office: T/W | Remote: M/Th/F

Department Function: The Real Estate Solutions Department provides a wide range of real estate consulting and development services to help assist nonprofits with the planning, design, and construction of facilities, including project financial feasibility, facility condition assessment, site search and due diligence for property development, and owner’s representative services both internally and externally. RES collaborates with broader IFF cross-function, programmatic efforts to build nonprofit capacity in targeted sectors and mission-related initiatives.

The Organization

IFF is a mission-driven lender, real estate consultant, and developer that helps communities thrive. Key to our success has been a deep sense of purpose, a broad perspective, and a relentless focus on achieving positive results. Across the Midwest we help clients from every sector, including human service agencies, health centers, schools, affordable housing developers, and healthy food grocery operators. Staff contribute extensive business experience and an unrivaled connection to the mission of IFF to the clients we serve.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Partnering to create thriving communities is at the heart of everything we do.  We leverage knowledge, capital, and resources to advance equitable and transformational outcomes in under-resourced communities, guided by our commitment to be an inclusive, anti-racist and anti-oppressive institution that honors communities as asset-rich and as experts in their own stories.

Basic Job Function

The Senior Owner’s Representative manages work associated with the construction and building analysis of RES projects.  The Senior Owner’s Representative participates in RES consulting projects including directly coordinating and managing all aspects of design and construction oversight.  This includes conducting site visits and analyses of buildings a client is evaluating for lease or purchase, conducting facilities assessments of buildings clients currently occupy, taking an active role in managing the design process of construction projects, managing all aspects of construction projects, project accounting and reporting, and managing client relationships during the construction phase of projects.  The Senior Owner’s Representative works on many real estate projects simultaneously, participates in departmental planning meetings for projects, is an active Project Team Member on projects, and supports the work of the Lead Owner’s Representative, Managing Director-RES Chicago and other RES staff as necessary.   

IFF is looking for candidates with a commitment to the work we do who can demonstrate their creativity, diligence, enthusiasm, growth-mindset, thoughtfulness, and passion to make meaningful change in the areas of economic and racial justice.

Requirements

Core Responsibilities: 

1. Conducts site visits of buildings for potential lease or purchase by clients, assesses buildings and their systems for suitability for client’s intended purpose, and provides analyses of such buildings. 

2. Conducts facilities assessments of clients’ existing facilities according to the policies and procedures of the RES Department, assesses facilities’ major systems, layout, structure and suitability for program purposes, analyzes data collected through facilities assessments, prepares cost estimates, and provides written and visual recommendations for modifications or improvements.

3. Coordinates services of architects and engineers and other professionals in connection with the design phase of projects.  Ensures that such professionals are providing services according to the project criteria set, and the project schedule and budget. 

4. During the predevelopment and construction phases of assigned RES projects, coordinates all aspects of construction management ensuring that project goals and milestones are being met.  

• Solicits bids from and secures various real estate professionals and vendors for work on projects.  Evaluates and makes recommendations on bids and negotiates terms of works and approves hiring of vendors.  
• Coordinates pre-construction work associated with projects including securing construction estimates and any other work necessitated by the project.
• Oversees securing