Dev Coordinator: Construction & Real Estate

Call Your Mother Deli; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

401(k) with match

Early Wage Access

Bagels on the house

Stock options

Annual bonus

Job summary

Call Your Mother is hiring a Development Coordinator in DC to guide new shop openings from due diligence to launch day and closeout, reporting to the SVP of Development. You’ll partner with Real Estate, Design + Architecture, Construction, and Capital Purchasing + Logistics, keeping schedules and cost trackers up to date.

The ideal candidate stays on top of multiple projects, communicates clearly with internal teams and vendors, and brings a solutions-focused, VIBES-driven mindset to a

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in project coordination, construction administration, real estate development, or related roles.
• Understand development lifecycle from planning through closeout.
• Highly organized with ability to juggle multiple projects, deadlines and details.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills and familiarity with PM tools.
• Experience with budgets, bids, cost tracking, and invoices.
• Ability reading plans and organizing project documents.
• Clear communication with internal teams, contractors, vendors.
• Adaptable to shifting priorities and proactive follow-through.
• VIBES values: Vibrancy, Integrity, Belonging, Energy, Seize the Moment.

Responsibilities

• Support new shop development from site evaluation through closeout, organizing due diligence, landlord deliverables, key dates, and handoffs across teams.
• Manage project trackers, dashboards, and updates covering schedules, milestones, approvals, dependencies, and risks.
• Coordinate design schedules, deliverables, reviews and approvals with internal teams, architects, engineers and consultants through handoff to Construction.
• Support bidding and preconstruction by collecting proposals, tracking submissions and preparing bid comparisons.
• Coordinate permit tracking and administer initial business licensing and related Development applications.
• Assemble budgets and maintain project cost trackers, including commitments, invoices, POs, pay applications, approved changes and forecasts.
• Maintain complete, organized project files and consistent folder structures.
• Support active construction by tracking milestones, inspections, and opening readiness dependencies.
• Partner with Construction, Operations, IT and other teams to track progress and readiness.

Skills

Project coordination

Construction administration

Real estate development

Budgeting

Excel/Sheets

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

PM tools

Job description

Call Your Mother is hiring a Development Coordinator in DC to guide new shop openings from due diligence to launch day and closeout, reporting to the SVP of Development. You’ll partner with Real Estate, Design + Architecture, Construction, and Capital Purchasing + Logistics, keeping schedules and cost trackers up to date.

The ideal candidate stays on top of multiple projects, communicates clearly with internal teams and vendors, and brings a solutions-focused, VIBES-driven mindset to a