Project Manager, Real Estate Solutions

Description

Title:  Project Manager, Real Estate Solutions 

Employee Status: Full Time - Exempt 

Salary: Salary Grade 3

Starts at $ 55,500 | Kansas City 

Reports to: Lead Project Manager – Southern Region 

Department:   Real Estate Solutions 

Location: Kansas City, Missouri  

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 assist nonprofits with the planning, design, and construction of facilities, including project financial feasibility, facility condition assessments, site search and due diligence for property development, and owner’s representative services. 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 Project Manager builds and maintains relationships of trust with nonprofit clients and internal IFF colleagues by assisting in furthering real estate learning, planning and brick and mortar project goals. The Project Manager demonstrates strong multi-tasking abilities with their leadership of and support for simultaneous projects of different sizes, scopes, timelines, and locations. This includes assisting clients with assessing the financial feasibility of a real estate project; search for and secure a facility under a favorable lease or ownership agreement; assistance with packaging financing documentation for loan approval and closing; and complete the due diligence, acquisition, and predevelopment phases of a facility project. The Project Manager also leads or supports internal and interdepartmental projects.

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. Plans, manages, and executes real estate consulting or development projects as project team lead, as well as provides support as project team member on large and/or complex projects. Manages and supports a variety of projects concurrently.

2. For each project assigned as a project team lead, coordinates all aspects of project management, including as a trusted advisor to a diverse portfolio of clients, managing to client goals and expectations; scheduling and preparing for internal and external meetings; delivering against project scope and goals as defined in engagement or amending project scope as needed; and managing project team members, as appropriate.

• Develops and analyzes project real estate development space needs, budgets, financing scenarios, and occupancy cost projections. Determines client’s ability to take on debt for a project and overall financial ability to own and/or lease and manage real estate.
• Conducts site visits for Owner’s Representative team members to perform assessments and evaluations of potential buildings and vacant land for projects. Manages all aspects of such site visits including coordinating project team members and external vendors as necessary.
• Coordinates all predevelopment work associated with projects with an Owner’s Representative team member including necessary due diligence of buildings and land, hiring architects, contractors, and other external vendors, securing construction estimates and any other work necessitated by the project.
• Leads project team in preparation and delivery of written reports and analyses as necessar