Director of Development

🕒 July 8

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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Harmony Housing Affordable Development

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

🏠 Real Estate

🏗️ Construction

🌍 Social Impact

Real Estate • Construction • Social Impact

Harmony Housing Affordable Development is an industry-leading, mission-driven affordable housing property developer that constructs and preserves thousands of rental units for low-wealth residents across the United States. The company partners with public agencies, for-profits, and nonprofits to deliver development, finance, construction management, rehabilitation, repositioning, and recapitalization projects in urban, suburban, and rural communities. Harmony reports measurable impact—13K+ jobs created, 16K+ apartment homes developed, and 390+ communities impacted—and develops projects using affordable housing financing tools (e. g. , LIHTC). Its national footprint focuses on creating long-term community value and improving housing access for vulnerable populations.

📋 Description

• Manage the full development lifecycle for multiple projects, ensuring all milestones are met. • Oversee project schedules, funding applications, and entitlement processes. • Facilitate and document all development-phase meetings effectively. • Negotiate purchase and sale agreements, development agreements, and other legal documentation. • Identify, secure, and coordinate capital sources, including federal funding, LIHTC, and USDA programs. • Ensure compliance with financing and regulatory requirements. • Represent the organization in meetings with local and state government officials, planning commissions, and community stakeholders. • Build strong relationships with governmental agencies, capital providers, and external partners. • Lead community engagement efforts, including public meetings and hearings. • Collaborate with internal construction teams and external designers to ensure project goals are met. • Manage risk assessment and implement mitigation strategies throughout the development process. • Lead and coordinate a development team, fostering a culture of accountability and results-driven performance. • Work closely with internal teams across construction, finance, and accounting, ensuring seamless project execution. • Report on project progress to executive leadership and key stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, real estate, finance, urban planning, or a related field; a Master’s degree is a plus. • Minimum of 7+ years of progressive professional experience in affordable housing development, real estate investment, or a related field. • Management of existing relationships with developers, owners, management agents, and brokers throughout the designated region. • Experience reviewing relative property documents (operating statements, rent rolls, audits, loan documents, etc.); ability to process information including gathering, assessing, organizing, auditing, and verifying data. • Strong knowledge of affordable housing mechanisms (e.g., programs such as LIHTC and tax-exempt bond financing, FHA mortgage insurance programs, as well as Agency debt products (Fannie, Freddie, USDA), and familiarity with other affordable housing funding programs and compliance regulations. • Proven ability to lead complex projects from inception through complete. • Demonstrated excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with varying amounts of available information. • Ability to recognize and mitigate investment risks; strong negotiation skills. • High-energy, accurate, organized, highly detailed, and results-oriented professional with demonstrable ability to successfully manage multiple projects and successfully work under pressure of strict deadlines. • Excellent written, oral, and public speaking communication skills with an ability to clearly and concisely express ideas, thoughts, and concepts verbally and in writing to diverse teams. • Advanced computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe, SharePoint, and SmartSheet and other similar programs). • Exceptional customer service and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders. • Ability to manage daily responsibilities and projects with minimal direction, while also working in close collaboration with a team to provide solutions where needed. • Ability to maintain a “big picture” focus while attending to incredibly detailed work and providing thorough documentation. • Resourceful, flexible and maintain the ability to react and respond quickly towards positive outcomes. • Strong personal standards and values consistent with HHAD’s core values (entrepreneurial, integrity, caring, and excellence).

🏖️ Benefits

• A satisfactory background check will be required as part of the selection process. • HHAD is an EEO employer. • This job description is not inclusive of all responsibilities, skills, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with this position. • While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, management reserves the right to modify the position or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change. • This job description replaces all previous descriptions for this position.