Job Title: Director of Real Estate Development
Reports to: Chief Development Officer
Department: Administration
Job Summary:
The Director of Real Estate Development will be a member of the FC Cincinnati Real Estate Development team reporting directly to the Chief Development Officer. The position is responsible for assisting in the holistic project management of all real estate development efforts of FC Cincinnati including but not limited to projects for the Mercy Health Training Center, TQL Stadium, and West End Mixed-Use.
What You’ll Do:
- Analyze and outline critical paths of assigned projects
- Establish viable development plans, schedule, and budgets for projects
- Guide project design
- Underwrite real estate financing
- Front end management of the payment processes for projects
- Accurately track projects’ schedule & budget and ensure they are met
- Oversee project construction
- Prepare materials and presentations as needed for meetings
- Establish and maintain relationships with FC Cincinnati team, outside partners, stakeholders, and potential investors/developers
What You’ll Need:
- Strong attention to detail
- Accomplished public speaker
- Excellent organizational skills and work habits
- Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Must be able to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality
- Problem solver with ability to recognize issues and deal with them directly
- Detailed understanding of real estate zoning, entitlements, planning, design, and financing
- Proficient skills to analyze date and make recommendations to a diverse audience internally and externally
- Ability to use critical thinking to solve complex problems and address them directly and timely
- Eager and entrepreneurial individual with the drive to take initiative and work both independently and collaboratively with a team
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with the ability to make compelling presentations to owners, lenders, government bodies, and other relevant stakeholders
What You’ll Bring:
- 7+ years of experience in economic development, commercial real estate, or urban planning
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Planning, Finance, or other related degree program
- Ability to work outside of regular business hours including but not limited to weekends and holidays as required by the FCC game schedule, special events, and projects
Why You’ll Love FCC:
- Generous paid time off and holiday time
- Option for one work from home day per week (by department and schedule)
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401k plan with company match
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Maternity & Paternity Leave and Family Building Benefit
- Employee Assistance Program and free subscription to the Calm App
- Discount off merchandise in the FCC team store
- Community volunteer opportunities
- Professional development and Frequent team building opportunities
- Employee recognition programs and referral programs
- Opportunity for complimentary staff tickets to home FC Cincinnati matches
About FC Cincinnati
FC Cincinnati is a Major League Soccer team playing at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. The club’s diverse ownership group is led by controlling owner Carl H. Lindner III; as well as managing owners Meg Whitman and Dr. Griff Harsh; Scott Farmer; and George Joseph. Founded in 2015 by Lindner and President/Co-CEO Jeff Berding, FCC began play in the United Soccer League (USL) in 2016. The club won the 2018 USL Regular-Season Championship and earned postseason berths in all three of its USL seasons. In 2017, FC Cincinnati also advanced to the semifinals of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a run that included victories over two MLS squads. FC Cincinnati entered MLS as the 24th team in 2019 and opened the club’s 26,000-seat soccer-specific TQL Stadium in the West End neighborhood in 2021. FCC won the 2023 Supporters’ Shield – the annual award given to the team with the most points in the regular season – and clinched a spot in the 2023 MLS Playoffs for the second straight year. FC Cincinnati is one of Sports Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work in Sports 2023,” named to the Honor List as one of “75 Great Sports Companies to Call Home.”
About TQL Stadium
TQL Stadium, home of FC Cincinnati, is one of the most ambitious soccer-specific stadiums in not only North America, but the world. Critically-acclaimed firm Populous designed an innovative and forward-thinking stadium that is one of the largest soccer-specific facilities in Major League Soccer. TQL Stadium has been named Best Venue at the 2022 World Football Summit in Madrid and the 2022 Prix Versailles World Title in the Sports Category in Paris, France.
The stadium has five team locker rooms, including a comprehensive team suite for FC Cincinnati that features a dressing room, coach’s office, lounge, equipment storage and the Mercy Health Center of Excellence for the team’s medical and game day fitness needs. Within the 18 months of the stadium’s completion, TQL Stadium has featured both the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams, including the USMNT’s FIFA World Cup Qualification match vs. Mexico, and a concert by legendary rock band, The Who.
The closest seats are within 15 feet of the pitch at the $250 million, privately funded stadium. The design includes 53 traditional suites and 4,500 premium seats throughout four premium club spaces. FC Cincinnati’s supporters’ section, The Bailey, has grown to be more than 3,100 strong and loom over opponents at a 34-degree angle at the stadium’s north end. A 360-degree canopy roof covers every seat in TQL Stadium, but still allows sufficient sun in to grow a natural grass field.
About Mercy Health Training Center
In 2019, the club opened the state-of-the-art Mercy Health Training Center (MHTC) in Milford, Ohio. Designed by MSA Sport, the $30 million, 24-acre facility includes three full-size, lighted soccer fields – including two stabilized natural grass surfaces and one synthetic turf surface – as well as a goalkeeper-specific training area. The MLS team is housed in a 30,000 sq. ft., multilevel building abutting the fields, including a separate, 4,000 sq. ft. wing of the building for the FC Cincinnati Academy.
Additionally, there is a 3,000 sq. ft. maintenance facility on the property. In the design process, the MSA Sport design team benchmarked training grounds across the world, including the best in Europe, South America, and Asia. The goal of the design meets the original goal to develop one of the premier and most progressive team facilities in Major League Soccer and North America.
FC Cincinnati is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
