Senior Transactions Advisor – Federal Program

Senior Transactions Advisor – Federal Housing Program at JLL

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What this job involves: JLL's Public Institutions group is seeking a Senior Transactions Advisor to join our advisory engagement supporting the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Housing (ODASW(H)). This role carries an assigned deal book spanning the Family Housing and Unaccompanied Housing portfolios of the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) - a national pipeline of restructure, recapitalization, and new development transactions.

This is a deal-book leadership seat, not an analyst role. You will drive the shaping and testing of financing courses of action for each transaction, serve as the single point of continuity for your deals from intake through close, and own the quality of the decision package that reaches the Deputy Assistant Secretary. You will work alongside the program's senior transactions advisor and Program Manager, and where the specialist panel does not converge on a recommendation, you hold a deciding voice.

Behind every deal you lead is a fully staffed specialist bench - capital markets, construction and development, credit and OMB scoring, financial modeling, and policy and Congressional affairs - sequenced against your transaction's timeline. The pipeline is multi-year and national in scope, with sustained deal flow rather than a single-transaction engagement.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Lead the room: convene and run working sessions with project owners, Military Department counterparts, lenders, and the specialist panel — framing the issues, driving the discussion to a position, and carrying that position forward to senior government decision-makers
• Lead course-of-action development for assigned transactions — frame the structuring alternatives (debt restructuring, additional-debt capacity, ground lease modifications, reserve and waterfall mechanics, owner equity and concessions, and new development financing) and drive them to a ranked, defensible recommendation
• Build consensus across a multidisciplinary panel of specialists on the recommended structure, and ensure dissenting alternatives are documented and carried forward to the decision-maker rather than dropped
• Serve as the single point of continuity for each transaction from intake through close
• Support intake and baseline validation with the assigned portfolio advisor — proposal screen, source-document reconciliation, and identification of concession and structuring levers
• Direct the financial modeling team's sensitivity, pricing, and scoring work against the selected alternatives
• Contribute to the independent downside and risk assessment of the recommended structure
• Own the quality of the decision memo and briefing materials presented to senior government leadership
• Support coordination of the government’s decision with Military Department counterparts and project owners, including Congressional notification
• Capture precedents and lessons learned from closed transactions for reuse across the portfolio

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, real estate, economics, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in real estate finance, P3/infrastructure,…