Chief Development Officer, Affordable Housing

Harmony Housing Affordable Development Inc; West Virginia; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmony Housing Affordable Development Inc. (HHAD) seeks a Vice President of Development to lead its development portfolio, including new construction, acquisition and rehabilitation, preservation, and USDA Rural Development projects.

The role drives execution from feasibility through closing and transition to construction, while building a high-performing Development team. The VP will manage budgets, schedules, and transaction economics, oversee underwriting, and ensure timely closings, with a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in real estate, finance, business, construction, urban planning, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive affordable housing development experience, including senior leadership and oversight of multiple complex transactions.
• Expertise in 4% and 9% LIHTC, tax-exempt bonds, public financing, development underwriting, entitlements, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with acquisition/rehabilitation and preservation transactions; USDA Section 515 and 538 experience preferred.
• Proven ability to lead development teams, manage competing priorities, negotiate complex transactions, and deliver results.
• Strong financial acumen, executive communication, analytical judgment, organizational discipline, and collaborative leadership skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and applicable project management and reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the Development department, ensuring transactions advance in accordance with approved budgets, schedules, financing strategies, and organizational objectives.
• Provide executive oversight of development budgets, funding gaps, developer fee forecasts and realization, and transaction economics in coordination with Finance.
• Proactively identify project delays, financial exposure, regulatory concerns, and other material risks; implement corrective action plans and promptly elevate matters requiring executive decisions.
• Promote consistent development processes, quality controls, reporting practices, and continuous improvement throughout the department.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, Construction, and other stakeholders to advance underwriting, financing, due diligence, entitlements, applications, and closing requirements.
• Oversee the quality, accuracy, and timely submission of LIHTC, tax-exempt bond, USDA RD, HUD, and other applicable funding applications and approvals.
• Ensure project teams resolve outstanding issues, satisfy closing conditions, and achieve targeted closing dates while protecting approved transaction economics.
• Oversee development-phase design, permitting, entitlements, environmental matters, and preconstruction coordination; mitigate risks.
• Direct a structured transition of closed transactions to Construction and Post-Close Asset Management, including budgets and commitments.
• Maintain relationships with partners, housing authorities, lenders, investors, and government agencies; communicate project status to executives.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Financial analysis

Collaboration

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project management software

Job description

Harmony Housing Affordable Development Inc. (HHAD) seeks a Vice President of Development to lead its development portfolio, including new construction, acquisition and rehabilitation, preservation, and USDA Rural Development projects.

The role drives execution from feasibility through closing and transition to construction, while building a high-performing Development team. The VP will manage budgets, schedules, and transaction economics, oversee underwriting, and ensure timely closings, with a