Assistant Project Manager II - Affordable Housing Development

Diamond and Associates; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); À distance; USD 55 000 - 85 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Diamond and Associates, Inc. (D&A) specializes in nonprofit and for-profit developers of multifamily affordable housing, supporting financing, project management, completion and occupancy across multiple states.

We are seeking a candidate with 3–5 years in affordable housing, strong analytical and organizational skills, and a collaborative approach to work with nonprofit, governmental, and private partners to advance development projects and funding applications.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of work experience in affordable housing or related field.
• Strong analytical, language, and organizational skills.
• Detail oriented and mission-driven to create affordable housing.
• Enjoys collaborating with nonprofit, governmental, and for‑profit partners.

Responsabilités

• Supports work of D&A Project Managers to assist multiple client organizations in developing multifamily affordable housing.
• Time-tracking in the timekeeping system and scheduling client meetings with agendas and minutes.
• Drafts project narratives for financing applications and manages documents and files.
• Assists in engaging development team members and coordinating with design, legal, and other project members.
• Creates and revises development and operating pro forma packages for LIHTC and other funding sources.

Connaissances

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Detail oriented

Formation

Strong educational credentials

Description du poste

Diamond and Associates, Inc. (D&A) is a consultant for nonprofit and for-profit developers of multifamily affordable housing. Its mission is to create housing for low-income people marginalized by the wider housing market. During its decades of operation, D&A has supported the financing, project management, completion, and occupancy of over one hundred affordable communities, comprising over $2.8B in total project cost. While it has been based in Philadelphia, and now works virtually, D&A serves national, systematic, regional faith-based, public agencies, and community-based developers on projects in multiple states, including but not limited to Pennsylvania, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, and New Jersey. Developments assisted by D&A include new construction, rehabilitation, historic rehabilitation, adaptive re-use, mixed-use, mixed-income, scattered site, homeownership, and rental developments. D&A’s colleagues are skilled in every affordable housing financing tool, including LIHTC, Tax-Exempt Bonds, Project Based Vouchers, and the wide array of soft, subordinate debt financing. D&A is organized around a collaborative group of project managers and their teams.

Job Duties

• Supports the work of D&A Project Managers to provide comprehensive support for multiple client organizations who engage D&A to assist them in developing multifamily affordable housing.
• Daily time-tracking in the timekeeping system.
• With the review of Project Managers, schedules meetings, prepares agenda and minutes of client meetings, conference calls, and Zoom meetings.
• Drafts project narratives for financing applications, performs related research as required by financing applications, summarizes requests for proposals, and manages digitally saving of project documents and files.
• Assists in the engagement of development team members for a project.
• Communicates with the array of design, appraisal, legal and other project team members, for the purpose of obtaining work product, project costs, and any other information needed by the Project Manager.
• Asks questions of Diamond colleagues to fill in gaps in knowledge and understanding.
• Works on developing project management skills, including tracking to-do lists and following up on every aspect of development projects managed by D&A.
• With the review and oversight of the Project Manager, creates and revises development and operating pro forma packages for multiple funding applications, including LIHTC. Leads certain aspects of the development effort which can include leading applications for additional funding sources (outside of the PHFA / LIHTC application), closing/due diligence submissions and the like.
• With the review and oversight of the Project Manager, conducts feasibility studies.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years work experience in a field related to affordable housing.
• Strong educational credentials required, but will consider exceptional candidates with strong related work experience.
• Strong analytical, language, and organizational skills, and detail oriented.
• Positive, mission-driven to create affordable housing.
• Enjoys working within internal and external teams, including non-profit, governmental, and for-profit organizations.