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Project Leader Real Estate Originations

National Church Residences
5475 Rings Rd, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Jul 2026

About the role

Job Description:

PURPOSE
As the Project Leader, Originations, you will focus on opportunities within their assigned region. You will be accountable for the success of affordable housing projects, third-party deal sourcing in targeted markets, deal underwriting, preliminary deal evaluation, negotiation of purchases and related documents, procurement of financing, management of third-party consultants, and coordination of internal resources to facilitate a successful closing.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Identify, pursue and submit tax credit, bond, subordinate (FHLB, HOME, etc.) and lender applications to develop affordable housing communities.  

  • Submit multiple tax credit applications each year. Close multiple tax credit transactions per year. 

  • Obtaining not less than two revenue producing projects per year (9% awards and/or, 4% awards, acquisition projects, and/or third-party management contracts. 

  • Identify and analyze new and existing senior housing development opportunities. Prepares reports on topics including market investigation, comparable sales analysis, competitor evaluation, and demographic research.  

  • Actively involved in relationship building and policy-shaping with State Housing Finance Agencies, affordable housing owners, developers, brokers and others as needed.  Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of State Housing Finance guidelines, scoring criteria and regulations. 

  • Identify and pursue project related subordinate (“soft”) funding such as FHLB funds, HOME funds, Housing Trust Funds, etc. 

  • Prepares preliminary financial underwriting for potential new construction projects, substantial renovations and/or acquisitions.   

  • Management and interruption of third-party consultants and reports. 

  • Lead in community stakeholder outreach materials and strategies for new development projects.  

  • Leads the zoning and entitlement process of housing developments.  

  • Supports the preparation and negotiation of business terms of Purchase & Sale Agreements, including Partnership MOU’s. 

  • Represent National Church Residences with various jurisdictional staff (city, county, state, etc.).  

  • Review construction/rehab plans with Construction Management and third-party architects.  

  • Manage critical financial and compliance deliverables by overseeing equity installment triggers, lease-up progress, cost certification and loan conversions.  

  • Drive projects to completion/8609 issuance by coordinating all completion milestones, including and ensuring timely achievement of Pro-Forma lease-up and stabilized occupancy benchmarks and timely issuance of IRS Forms 8609. 

  • Participate in strategic planning efforts for the Development Department.  

  • Utilizing various development department resources, take the lead in tracking and satisfying project related critical path benchmarks such as entitlements, third party reports, design documents and construction approvals.    

  • Provides support and guidance as required by Department leaders in such areas as project presentations for exte

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