Position Title: Deputy General Counsel - Real Estate
Department: Office of General Counsel
Reports To: Interim General Counsel
Pay Grade: R
Salary: $110,500 to $143,700
Position Summary:
The Deputy General Counsel – Real Estate is a vital part of the Atlanta Housing (“AH”) team devoted to preserving and creating affordable housing resources throughout the city of Atlanta. This legal support facilitates affordable housing resources for nearly 26,000 low-income households comprised of approximately 50,000 people. The incumbent will provide strategic and comprehensive legal advice and support to AH’s ambitious and complex multi-million-dollar real estate development initiatives from the initiation of the development concept through the financial closing. The Deputy General Counsel – Real Estate will manage the six (6) members of the Office of General Counsel’s Real Estate Team which includes attorneys and administrative support staff, as well as to serve as the lead counsel for AH’s mixed-finance, mixed-use, multi-family residential, single-family home and commercial developments, new as well as repositioning, rehabilitation, land acquisition, and related real estate deals and transactions. As a member of the management of in-house legal team, the Deputy General Counsel – Real Estate also provides oral and written advice to AH Business Units in matters relating to real estate transactions and matters, contracting, corporate governance, regulatory compliance and other legal matters impacting the business of AH.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Assist the General Counsel in the management of all legal affairs for the organization; provide legal counsel to senior management, and other organization staff as needs arise, as follows:
- Prepare legal and transactional documents for mixed-finance real estate closings, conventional real estate closings and other real estate related transactions (e.g., conveyancing documents, purchase and sale agreements, developer agreements, loan documents, contracts, closing statements, restrictive covenants, corporate authority documents, etc.).
- Perform due diligence reviews of closing and loan documents, title reports, environmental assessments, surveys, and other documents relating to real estate matters.
- Draft, review and negotiate general business contracts, intergovernmental agreements, and other agreements that are to be entered into by AH.
- Assistant in the formulation of high-level policy and advise senior executives on legal issues associated with important strategic real estate and business initiatives.
- Interpret laws and regulations relating to all AH matters and confer with expert outside counsel on related real estate and other specialty matters.
- Provide assistance in corporate counsel responsibilities related to AH’s governing Board, AH’s affiliates, AH’s Executive Team, other senior executives and AH’s Business Units.
- Perform such other related duties as required and/or assigned.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements: - Must demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, in addition to possessing strong interpersonal skills, including a demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative manner with co-workers.
- Must have keen analytical ability, be well organized and exercise the ability to plan, organize, and control various legal matters in an environment of multiple and possibly shifting priorities.
- Strong judgment, legal acumen, analysis and reasoning abilities required in the review of legal documents, filings, or records.
- Must be results oriented and able to function in a moderately-paced collegial in-house counsel office.
- Must demonstrate a desire and capability to provide outstanding leadership, coaching, mentoring and teaching of colleagues and co-workers.
- Requires membership in good standing with the Georgia Bar Association.
- Work requires demonstrated leadership performance in positions of increasing responsibility, independent decision-making and judgment, communication and organizational skills.
- The work requires a demonstrated proficiency of AH’s current office technology and software applications and demonstrated use of such technology and applications on a regular basis.
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