Development Manager, Affordable Housing Growth & Delivery

Macdonald & Company; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Macdonald & Company, partnered with a long-established affordable housing developer in Salt Lake City, is adding a Development Manager to its growing team. This role offers exposure across the entire lifecycle of a project, inviting candidates from finance, construction or architecture backgrounds to contribute beyond a single specialty.

The successful candidate will join an experienced team with strong backgrounds in finance, construction and architecture, capable of managing portfolios from

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant real estate development experience.
• Experience in affordable housing or multifamily development preferred.
• Strong grounding in at least two areas: development finance, construction or architecture/design.
• Financial analysis and development economics as either a primary strength or meaningful secondary capability.
• Experience across multiple stages of a development rather than within one narrowly defined function.
• Strong project management and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities and external stakeholders simultaneously.
• Hands-on mentality and willingness to tackle whatever is required to move a project forward.
• Bachelor's degree in related discipline preferred.

Responsibilities

• Managing projects across multiple stages of the real estate development lifecycle.
• Supporting financial analysis, underwriting, budgeting and development feasibility.
• Coordinating due diligence, design, entitlement, permitting and pre-development activities.
• Working with complex project financing and affordable housing capital structures.
• Managing architects, contractors, consultants and other external project partners.
• Monitoring construction progress, budgets, schedules, draws and key project milestones.
• Working with municipalities, public agencies, lenders, investors and community stakeholders.
• Identifying issues, solving problems and stepping into different areas of a project as required.
• Supporting projects through construction, lease-up and stabilization.

Skills

Real estate development

Development finance

Construction

Architecture/design

Project management

Stakeholder management

Education

Real Estate/Finance degree

Job description

Macdonald & Company, partnered with a long-established affordable housing developer in Salt Lake City, is adding a Development Manager to its growing team. This role offers exposure across the entire lifecycle of a project, inviting candidates from finance, construction or architecture backgrounds to contribute beyond a single specialty.

The successful candidate will join an experienced team with strong backgrounds in finance, construction and architecture, capable of managing portfolios from