Senior Development Manager - Land Development

## Senior Development Manager - Land Development Apply:
McLean, VA:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R5025287

From Diligence to Delivery. Camber Real Estate Solutions, a subsidiary of Clark Construction Group, is a full-cycle development platform that offers turnkey development solutions to clients. We take complex projects from initial strategy and design through complete construction.
As a Senior Development Manager, you are the strategic driver of early-stage project success. You will lead our clients from initial vision through complex site selection, land acquisition, horizontal land development, entitlements, and preliminary engineering design across a broad portfolio of turnkey user types—including advanced manufacturing, private commercial enterprises, sports and entertainment franchises, and more. You will act as the client's fiercest advocate, translating their operational footprint and expansion goals into fully derisked, entitled, and pad-ready land assets ready for seamless vertical construction and delivery.
This is an onsite role based in our McLean, VA office.  ##
** Responsibilities**
* ** Land Acquisition & Site Selection:
** Lead comprehensive site selection, land assembly, and property due diligence across target markets. Evaluate physical, environmental, topographic, and legal conditions to negotiate option agreements, purchase contracts, and site control strategy for complex industrial, commercial, and sports assets.
* ** Horizontal Due Diligence & Feasibility:
** Direct pre-acquisition horizontal feasibility evaluations—assessing raw land constraints, utility capacity/extensions (water, sewer, heavy power, gas), stormwater management, access/traffic impacts, and geotechnical conditions prior to land closing.
* ** Pro Forma Underwriting & Cost Control:
** Conduct rigorous land development financial modeling. Build and manage land assembly budgets, horizontal infrastructure hard/soft cost conceptual budgets, and overall development pro formas tailored to turnkey user specifications and corporate hurdle rates.
* ** Entitlements, Annexation & Public

Incentives:

** Navigate Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJs) to secure zoning approvals, comprehensive plan amendments, annexations, utility district creations, and special use permits. Negotiate public-private partnerships (P3), infrastructure cost-sharing agreements, tax abatements, and economic development incentives with local and state municipalities.
* ** Civil Engineering & Infrastructure Design Management:
** Oversee civil engineering, environmental, and site planning consultants from preliminary land planning through final platting and civil construction documents. Drive Target Value Design to optimize mass grading, earthwork balance, site utility routing, and pad sizing for speed-to-market.
* ** Pre-Construction & Vertical Hand-Off:
** Lead contractor selection for bulk earthwork, utility installation, and site infrastructure development. Partner downstream with vertical construction teams to transition fully permitted, pad-ready site packages into active building construction and turnkey project execution.  ##
** Basic Qualifications**
* ** Land Development & Cross-Industry Experience (Required):
** 8 to 10+ years of progressive real estate development experience, with a proven track record of directly managing land acquisition, horizontal land development, utility infrastructure, and complex entitlements. Experience delivering sites for advanced manufacturing, corporate facilities, sports facilities, or large-scale private enterprises preferred.
* ** Land Control & Incentive Fluency:
** Deep understanding of land acquisition mechanics, purchase contract negotiations, site control strategies, municipal infrastructure agreements, tax…