Practice Group Co-Lead, Transit-Oriented Real Estate Economics and Finance

Description

• Model exemplary “trusted advisor” service and provide future-focused solutions to clients. Monitor project schedules, budgets, and deliverables, coordinating with legal, financial, and technical teams as required. Ensure profitable management and successful completion of individual projects within the assigned area.
• Buildings Portfolio Real Estate Financial Analysis: Optimize the financial performance of the real estate portfolio or an specific development.
• Advise clients on comparative pros and cons of leveraging surplus land sales, ground leases, joint development vehicles, public-private partnerships, build-to-suit, and leasing space, based on their project goals, current market conditions, and local site and legal characteristics.
• Real Estate Acquisition Management Planning: Organize and manage the process of obtaining easements, partial takings, acquisitions, and eminent domain actions in compliance with USDOT guidelines.
• Financial Architecture, Asset Monetization, Value Capture: Develop ongoing and self-perpetuating revenue streams by leveraging markets and land value increases driven by transit investment.
• Leverage expertise and relationships to market knowledge and capabilities and development new clients and projects.
• Assist in preparing annual updates to tactical business action plans.
• Guide the development and execution of real estate development strategies that align with agency objectives and community interests. Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, and transaction summaries to clients’ organizational management, elected officials, and/or governing boards.
• Develop and implement long-term strategies for growth and pipeline advancement in Advisory Services for WSP within designated areas, emphasizing land value opportunities across all sectors, including transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power.
• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of projects concerning real estate transactions with a public-sector principal in the Transit-Oriented Development and Real Estate Finance discipline, including senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics.
• Financial Feasibility, Incentives, and Funding Sources: Leverage up-to-date market information to compare costs and revenues top understand the economic feasibility of market rate development.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge and application of land value capture methods such as TIF financing,
• Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships.
• 10+ years of relevant experience at a transportation agency or other municipal government entity, including acting as principal on real estate transactions.
• Supervisory and/or management experience on real estate sales and/or joint development projects.
• Real Estate Economics and Market Analysis: Comparative market analysis that reveals hyper-local and specific information about real estate submarkets.
• Advanced proficiency and proven experience in the areas of due diligence, procurement strategy, alternative delivery methods, and/or transaction structure.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to develop and implement effective plans.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Master’s Degree is preferred.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance