Director of Real Estate Solutions - Michigan

Description

Title:  Director of Real Estate Solutions - Michigan

Employee Status: Full-Time, Exempt

Salary:  Salary Grade:  7

Starts at $107,700 

Reports to:  Senior Vice President of Real Estate Solutions 

Department:  Real Estate Solutions

Location: Detroit 

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

Department Function:  The Real Estate Solutions Department (RES) provides a wide range of real

estate consulting and development services to help assist nonprofit and government partners 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. 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 Director of Real Estate Solutions – Michigan is responsible for securing and overseeing all Michigan real estate consulting activities. The Director conducts outreach and secures contracts; leads major Michigan real estate projects; oversees the consulting office and supervises staff assigned to projects; and works with IFF management to establish strategic direction for the office.

A key focus of the position is the responsibility for cultivating and managing initiatives in Michigan, including but not limited to leading IFF’s participation in efforts to reform the early education landscape and coordination of real estate services for early education providers. The Director’s responsibilities for these initiatives include developing and maintaining relationships with key influencers, identifying opportunities and developing strategic initiatives to address key issues and goals within the region, achieving goals of the engagement and managing staff contributing to the projects. In this capacity, the Director may work closely with IFF senior management staff, and in cross- function teams, to implement initiatives.

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

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Leads successful growth of the Michigan-based Real Estate Solutions department.

• Prepares an annual business development strategy and plan and sets production and revenue goals, along with other measures of success.
• Establishes relationships with key local influencers, identifies opportunities to impact the local nonprofit landscape, forms internal and external partnerships to accomplish IFF’s mission and goals, and helps lead implementation.
• Leads appropriate outreach and business development activities to obtain consulting contracts.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with local vendors in the real estate industry, including real estate brokers, project managers, architects and contractors.
• Monitors progress towards goals and works to ensure that revenue and other goals and success objectives are met.

2. Provides supervision and management of RES staff within or assigned to the Michigan office.

• Allocates and assigns RES resources for successful implementation.
• Provides day-to-day direction and management to ensure that assigned projects are completed on time, within budget and according to IFF and prof