Real Estate Senior Project Manager

The Planning Office for Urban Affairs (POUA, the Planning Office) seeks a Senior Real Estate Project Manager, or possibly a Project Manager, to join our collaborative and dedicated staff. The Senior Project Manager will have an opportunity to work with an experienced and collaborative team as well as with dedicated project partners on a wide range of projects throughout Eastern and Central Massachusetts.

POUA was created by the Archdiocese of Boston in 1969 as a nonprofit organization, to serve as a catalyst for social justice through its work in housing development, neighborhood revitalization, and affordable housing advocacy. Today, 57 years later, the Planning Office remains firmly rooted in its mission to create vibrant communities, and work for social justice on behalf of all those who are housing deprived.

The Planning Office has developed more than 3,200 units of elderly, family, mixed income and special needs housing, channeling over $675 million of investment into developments throughout eastern and central Massachusetts. We own over 1,250 units across 25 properties. The Planning Office currently has more than 1,300 units of rental, supported housing, and home ownership under development and another 600 prospective units in communities such as Attleboro, Boston, Gloucester, Wayland, Brockton, Needham, Arlington, and Worcester.

Our current annual operating budget is more than $4.2 million.

Our developments focus on the creation of strong communities where people of economic, racial and ethnic diversity can live with dignity and respect. They are designed to respond to the needs of both our residents and the particular communities in which we build. In some cases, we have redeveloped former church-related properties; in other cases, we have responded to requests from communities, service agencies, nonprofit partners or local governments.

We work with several property management companies and have an asset manager and resident service manager on our staff, to ensure effective operation and resident support at the properties that we develop.

The Planning Office is led by experienced affordable housing leaders, who participate in and lead local and national advocacy efforts to increase affordable housing resources, avoid foreclosures, and address homelessness. Our board of trustees, appointed by the Archbishop of Boston, works together with our President to govern our financially strong and growing organization.

Real estate development at the Planning Office is collaborative process. Our projects are often a joint venture or a partnership with a service provider, a community, or a local nonprofit. Project teams are led by the Director of Real Estate or the President, with the degree of daily involvement varying based on the Project Manager’s experience and the stage of development.

We encourage the mentor/mentee relationship and look to learn from each other and every project.

Our recent work includes: developing a 19-story, 126-unit development in downtown Boston that will provide permanent supportive housing and affordable rental opportunities; converting an office building into affordable home ownership in Worcester; creating a 121-unit mixed-income rental and home ownership community in Brockton; and developing three new residential communities along the Fairmount line in Mattapan. We have formed partnerships with a range of groups including: the St.

Francis House, Harbor Light Homes, Caribbean Integration Community Development, and many others.

The Senior Project Manager will join a team of thirteen people at the Planning Office. They will report directly to the Real Estate…