Real Estate Development Jobs

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Manage full project life cycles: schedules, work plans, staffing, team workflows, and QA/QC across concurrent workstreams.
• Work with the client's point of contact to align on project schedule and delivery timelines.
• Estimate the time and resources required to successfully deliver a task and make sure the team has these reserved. Coordinate the many moving pieces behind high-quality deliverables.
• Oversee project administration, shared file systems, documentation, and regular reporting to Directors and Principals.
• Utilize firm project management systems and tools in your day-to-day work. Contribute to improving these systems and processes across the firm.

• Own the project budget and manage it toward project and firm financial goals.
• Maintain project financial tracking and invoicing, and report financial status to Project and Firm Leadership.
• Use financial data to inform project strategy and contribute to project and firm-wide staffing decisions.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for the client and partner firms, building trust through responsive, relationship-minded communication.
• Facilitate client meetings, stakeholder interviews, steering committee meetings, workshops, and public community engagement.
• Plan and execute stakeholder engagement strategy across government agencies, community members, local businesses, and other partners.
• Synthesize stakeholder input to shape the project.

• Oversee quantitative and qualitative analysis across economic, workforce, market, policy, and real estate topics, including economic impact analyses, socioeconomic and market analyses, and financial feasibility work.
• Review and validate models (such as pro formas and economic impact analyses) and QA/QC deliverables before they go to the Project Director.
• Synthesize multi-source data into strategic findings, and integrate them with partner work as needed.
• Communicate findings and recommendations clearly and persuasively, in writing and in person, tailoring the message to each audience, from agency leadership and developers to community members and local business owners.
• Author complete client deliverables: reports, executive summaries, memos, and strategic recommendations, with a clear storyline that leads from evidence to action.
• Oversee infographics, data visualizations, maps, and decks that translate technical findings for non-technical audiences, from meeting agendas to investor presentations.
• Present confidently to clients and external stakeholders with clarity and sound judgment.

• Coach and manage team members through project delivery, and remain responsive to their needs.
• Uphold our culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and feedback.
• Step into a people-management role, with support and training from the firm.

• Lead proposal responses to RFPs and RFQs, including scoping project approaches and preparing project fee proposals.
• Identify add-on opportunities with existing clients.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 3–5 years of relevant experience in economic development, real estate, urban planning, or consulting.
• Demonstrated project management experience, including managing budgets and project finances and leading team members to meet timelines and complete deliverables.
• Client relationship experience and a track record of building trust across varied stakeholders, such as clients, partner firms, government agencies, and community members.
• Experience in community economic development, workforce development, placemaking, and stakeholder engagement.
• Familiarity with analytical methods in economic and workforce analysis and/or real estate feasibility. We are looking for fluency in some of these with a clear aptitude to learn and deepen your skills in newer concepts and methods.
• Working knowledge of foundational real estate concepts, such as pro formas and sources and uses of funding.
• Familiarity with socioeconomic and market data sources and platforms, such as Census data, IMPLAN, and CoStar.
• Strong writing is a must. You can turn complex technical information into clear, compelling, layperson-friendly communication.
• Experience overseeing graphic design and data visualization, with proficiency in tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint, and Google Workspace.
• An entrepreneurial orientation and excitement about working in a maturing startup environment.
• Deep curiosity about planning issues and a demonstrated commitment to applying an equity lens to this work.
Openness and appetite to learn, including interest in other kinds of work across the firm such as community engagement, strategic planning, climate resiliency, and other sectors and verticals.

• Multilingual written and oral skills, given our work with diverse communities.
• Experience working with traditionally underserved populations.

Benefits

• Professional development: we encourage team members to reach their professional goals through membership organizations, conferences, and skills and management training, and we offer regular internal training.
• Health and wellness: medical, vision, and dental benefits, with costs shared by Karp Strategies, plus One Medical membership. We prioritize work-life balance as a core value.
• Rest: 20 days of PTO and 7 days of sick/safe leave.
• Savings: 401(k) match, plus access to HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits.

About Karp Strategies