Assistant Development Manager

Fort Mill, SC - in-office with regular site presence

Full-time, exempt

Local, frequent - project sites, municipal offices, consultant offices

The Assistant Development Manager supports the execution of mixed-use development projects from predevelopment through delivery and stabilization. This is the entry point into our development team and the seat from which our development managers are grown.

The role is deliberately broad. Over a typical project cycle the Assistant Development Manager will touch underwriting assumptions, entitlement applications, consultant contracts, design coordination, construction cost reporting, and the handoff into operations. The work is heavy on coordination, documentation, and follow-through…and that is the point. Development is won or lost on whether someone is tracking the hundred open items that no one else has time to track.

We build to own. Every project this Asst. Development Manager works on will still be in our portfolio in twenty years, which changes how we make decisions and what we expect from the people who support them.

• Maintain the development budget: track committed, incurred, and forecast costs by cost code against the approved budget, and flag variances before they become problems
• Prepare the monthly project report for internal review and lender distribution
• Maintain the master project schedule under the direction of the Sr VP of Development; track critical path items and long-lead procurement
• Own the project decision log and open-items list, and drive items to closure between meetings
• Support monthly draw preparation in coordination with the Development Accountant and lender

• Coordinate the consultant team — architect, civil, structural, MEP, landscape, traffic, environmental, geotechnical — including scheduling, deliverable tracking, and invoice review against contracted scope
• Prepare and circulate agendas, meeting minutes, and action-item lists for weekly project team meetings
• Maintain the project document control system: drawing sets, consultant contracts, reports, permits, correspondence
• Track consultant contract status, scope amendments, and fee reconciliation

• Assemble and submit entitlement and permit applications; track review comments and resubmittals
• Serve as the primary point of contact with municipal staff on routine permitting and expediting matters
• Maintain the conditions of approval tracker — every condition attached to every approval, with its trigger, owner, deadline, and satisfaction status
• Support preparation of materials for public hearings, community meetings, and stakeholder briefings
• Track utility agreements, easements, offsite improvement obligations, and public improvement bonds

• Support the design review process across schematic design, design development, and construction documents
• Coordinate and document the Design-Operations Review at each design milestone, capturing comments from property operations, asset management, and retail leasing and tracking them to resolution
• Log and track RFIs, submittals, and change orders; support the Director of Construction in change-order review and validation
• Support tenant coordination for retail and commercial buildouts
• Support closeout: as-built drawings, O&M manuals, warranties, commissioning documentation, and the operations turnover package

• Support underwriting updates and budget reforecasts as project assumptions change
• Prepare materials for Investment Committee submissions
• Support the formal handoffs - acquisitions to development at closing, and development to asset management…