Job Description

Company Overview:

Concord Crest Real Estate is a real estate land-use advisory and permit expediting consulting company based in Miami, Florida. Utilizing backgrounds in real estate development, architecture, engineering, and urban planning, Concord Crest provides real estate land-use services and manages the permitting and entitlement process for all types of real estate development throughout South Florida, including single-family dwellings, multi-family, commercial offices, retail, and hospitality.

Summary:

Concord Crest is seeking a full-time, experienced Director of Land-Use Planning with a minimum of 8 years of experience in Miami, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties. Offering competitive salaries, comprehensive health benefits, and bonuses, Concord Crest provides a dynamic work environment for real estate professionals who can manage and execute projects with minimal supervision.

Job Responsibilities:

• Hybrid role – Miami office
• Ensuring project designs and developments are compliant with South Florida city and county codes
• Zoning and Building code research and evaluation; permit expediting; preparation of case filings, including findings; project strategy leadership; public hearing presentations and neighbor coordination.
• Client and Municipality relationship management
• Managing a team of Permit Expeditors and Plan Check Project Managers
• Directing the development of projects, including: obtaining project entitlements and CUP's; preparing project development budgets, schedules, and contracts; selecting and directing project teams, including the design and engineering; negotiating agency development agreements and ensuring compliance with terms; and preparing timely reports to owners and investors to ensure a successful completion of the project to meet financial and schedule objectives.
• Developing partnership arrangements between municipal agencies, stakeholders, tenants, and landowners by representing the Company's interests in forging these partnerships and negotiating the essential agreements using Company policy and guidelines, and conducting the necessary presentations and meetings with municipal agencies, including planning commissions, public hearings, neighborhood groups, and civic organizations to obtain support for the projects.
• Overseeing the preparation of Environmental Impact Reports and presentations to city review boards and city councils.
• Selecting the most effective project team (architects, structural and MEP engineers, FLS consultant, communications consultant, etc., if and when required), directing the design development and coordination of the consultants at the appropriate phases, and ensuring that the design intent meets the project's financial, leasing, and operational objectives.
• Researching new and updated municipal programs and regulations as it relates to the development project; review of development proposals and site plans for conformance with codes, plans, and regulations; collect, collate, and prepare reports on development projects, including land use, census information, tax base data, comp set data, and occupancy rates; evaluating re-zoning, ordinance amendments, site plans, special use permits, variances and other land-use submittals for developments; liaison between Company and community groups, government agencies, HOAs and elected officials; coordinate and oversee community review of public and private development projects; provides information to the public regarding developments.
• Ensuring the project schedule is met.
• Creating and updating the development analyses.
• Preparing reports (narratives, updates, and comments on the development and financial status of the development) for Company review, and conducting presentations of projects for the Company.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or related field.
• Land-use and permit expediting experience working on discretionary entitlements for 8 years
• Knowledge of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach building codes and permitting process – experience of 2 years each.
• Extensive client contacts and relationships with local and national architects, developers, land use attorneys, engineers, planners, and/or land owners, as well as local jurisdictional staff.
• Experienced in due diligence matters in acquisition and development, including physical review, surveys, site plans, architectural drawings, and zoning ordinance review.
• Experienced in predevelopment efforts, including zoning approvals, plat map preparation oversight, approvals, and schedules.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of urban planning, research, and data collection
• Excellent ability to communicate with any number of municipal departments, government agencies, and the general public.
• Creative problem-solving skills to research, analyze, and solve.
• Ability to multitask and manage/lead a team.
• Highly motivated, organized, diligent, detail-oriented, and hard-working leader.

Benefits:

• Health and Vision
• 401(k)
• PTO

Compensation:

• $130,000-160,000 per year (DOE)

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