Project Manager of Multifamily Development

Project Manager of Multifamily Housing Development

Help Build Affordable Housing Across the San Joaquin Valley

Do you enjoy bringing complex projects to life, coordinating diverse partners, and finding creative solutions when challenges arise? Are you motivated by work that creates lasting opportunities for families and communities?

Join Self-Help Enterprises as a Senior
Project Manager in Multifamily Real Estate Development and help guide affordable housing communities from initial concept and site evaluation through financing, design, construction, and completion. In this role, you will combine project management, financial analysis, relationship-building, and problem-solving to help expand access to quality affordable housing throughout the San Joaquin Valley.

This is an excellent opportunity for a resourceful and collaborative professional who can manage complex projects, solve problems creatively, and balance multiple priorities while contributing to SHE’s mission.

The role requires a strong understanding of the full affordable housing development process, sound judgment, and the ability to effectively represent SHE with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Depending on the selected candidate’s education, experience, and demonstrated capabilities, the position may be filled at the Project Manager 1, Project Manager 2, or Senior Project Manager level.

• Evaluate potential sites for affordable multifamily housing development, including market conditions, site constraints, development feasibility, and community needs, and independently assess project feasibility, development risks, financing considerations, and potential mitigation strategies.
• Lead and manage site acquisition activities, due diligence, environmental review, risk assessment, and other predevelopment requirements.
• Prepare and maintain complex development budgets, financing proformas, operating projections, project schedules, and financial analyses, including sources and uses, cash flow projections, funding gaps, development assumptions, and scenario analyses throughout the development process.
• Identify and pursue project financing from sources such as Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, public funding programs, grants, loans, and other affordable housing resources, and develop financing strategies that address project feasibility, funding requirements, and long-term affordability.
• Lead funding applications and manage financial closings, lender and investor requirements, and related documentation.
• Lead and manage the entitlement, planning, design, permitting, and approval processes in collaboration with public agencies and project consultants, including resolving complex regulatory, land-use, design, and development issues.
• Lead the selection and management of architects, engineers, general contractors, and other professional service providers, including negotiating scopes of work, monitoring contracts, and evaluating consultant and contractor performance.
• Monitor and manage project budgets, schedules, contracts, funding requirements, and key development milestones; identify variances and emerging risks; and develop and implement corrective strategies as needed.
• Manage projects throughout construction, including construction budgets, contingencies, change orders, payment applications and draws, cost-to-complete projections, construction schedules, contracts, and funding requirements; coordinate with contractors, architects, construction managers, lenders, investors, and internal staff to resolve issues affecting cost, schedule, quality, or compliance.
• Maintain and apply a comprehensive working knowledge of affordable housing development programs, financing requirements, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations, and evaluate their impact on project feasibility, design, construction, financing, and operations.
• Maintain effective communication among internal departments, development partners, consultants, contractors, public agencies, lenders, investors, and other stakeholders, and lead multidisciplinary project teams through complex development decisions and challenges.
• Represent SHE and present affordable housing developments to city councils, boards of supervisors, planning commissions, governing boards, community groups, public agencies, lenders, and other stakeholders; clearly communicate complex financial, development, construction, and regulatory information; and respond effectively to…