Development Manager: Cross-Discipline, Affordable Housing

Macdonald & Company; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Macdonald & Company is partnered with a Salt Lake City affordable housing developer with a 50+ year market presence. They seek a Development Manager to support a robust project pipeline and recent award.

The role spans across finance, construction, and architecture, requiring flexibility and hands-on project management. You will work with municipalities, lenders, investors, and stakeholders to drive projects to stabilization.

Qualifications

• Three or more years in real estate development, ideally with time in affordable housing or multifamily.
• Solid in at least two of development finance, construction, or architecture and design, with financial analysis as either a core strength or a strong secondary skill.
• Experience spanning multiple stages of a project, rather than sitting inside one function, matters more than a specific title history.
• Bachelor’s degree in real estate, finance, construction, architecture, planning, or a related field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Run projects across the development lifecycle, from early evaluation through construction and stabilization.
• Handle underwriting, budgeting, and feasibility work.
• Coordinate due diligence, design, entitlements, and permitting.
• Work through affordable housing capital structures and complex project financing.
• Manage architects, contractors, and consultants.
• Track construction budgets, schedules, draws, and milestones.
• Work directly with municipalities, public agencies, lenders, investors, and community stakeholders.
• Solve problems as they surface and step into whatever part of a project needs attention.
• Carry projects through lease-up and stabilization.
• Take ownership of both the major decisions and the unglamorous groundwork that gets a project built.

Skills

Development finance

Construction

Architecture & design

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in real estate, finance, construction, architecture, planning, or related field

Job description

Macdonald & Company is partnered with a Salt Lake City affordable housing developer with a 50+ year market presence. They seek a Development Manager to support a robust project pipeline and recent award.

The role spans across finance, construction, and architecture, requiring flexibility and hands-on project management. You will work with municipalities, lenders, investors, and stakeholders to drive projects to stabilization.