Transaction Manager

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Our commitment to equity effectiveness and sustainability guides our work providing City agencies with the critical resources and support needed to succeed including:
Recruiting hiring and training City employees.
Managing 55 public buildings.
Acquiring selling and leasing City property.
Purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies.
Overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country.
Leading the Citys efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations.

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The Real Estate Services (RES) division of DCAS supports the operations of the government of the City of New York by providing services for the Citys real estate needs. RES is responsible for the space planning and management of 37 million square feet Citywide acquisitions (lease or purchase) sales and other dispositions of Cityowned real estate architectural design and project management zoning and land use analyses disposition of 15000 Cityowned lots property valuation and financial analysis of real estate transactions.

The RES Leasing & Acquisitions Unit is responsible for finding space for City agency operations and negotiating leases and purchases on behalf of the City. The transactions must satisfy the client agencys requirements and must conform to the Citys policies and procedures.

We are seeking to hire one Leasing Transactions Manager. Responsibilities include:

Responsibility #1: Identify site(s) deemed suitable to satisfy the program requirements for the client agencys location and program requirements and prepare market analysis reports either individually or using Tenant Representatives.
Responsibility #2: Negotiate cost effective commercial leases and licenses on behalf of the City as Tenant and in its best interest either individually or using Tenant Representatives.
Responsibility #3: Prepare and maintain project schedules either individually or using Tenant Representatives.
Responsibility #4: Initiate and maintain project status reports in DCAS Real Estate Services data systems for assigned projects.
Responsibility #5: Communicate with client agencies on a timely basis to keep the client fully informed on project status next steps potential or existing problem issues budgets and risk mitigation.
Responsibility #6: Manage the development and timely completion of required legal documents such as leases licenses renewals notices etc. using inhouse counsel.
Responsibility #7: Communicate with supervisors and other Real Estate Services staff to ensure projects are completed on time within budget and meeting the program needs of the client agencies.
Responsibility #8: Partner with Real Estate Services Design and Project Management (D&PM) unit to ensure that everything required to successfully negotiate a term sheet with the Landlord is completed on time and a lease is fully executed to satisfy the client agency requirements.
Responsibility #9: Maintain effective project management and efficient control of the entire leasing process for client agencies.
Responsibility #10: Confer and partner with a variety of internal stakeholders including the Mayors Office Office of General Counsel Comptrollers Office City Council and City Planning among others to satisfy client agency requirements and mayoral real property initiatives.
Responsibility #11: Effectively communicate and promote the client agencys real property interests to external stakeholders including local community boards elected officials and community organizations among others.
Responsibility #12: Provide timesensitive and accurate transaction related data to support the acquisition of Section 195 and Section 197(c) approvals as mandated by the New York City Charter. This may include public testimony regarding the acquisition of real property on behalf of the City.
Responsibility #13: Prepare ARC packages and all other required documentation and present to OMB for transaction approval.


To Apply:

Please go to or for current NYC employees and search for Job ID #713068.

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ADMINISTRATIVE REAL PROPERTY M 10047

Qualifications :

1. A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory fulltime progressively responsible experience in real property management at least 18 months of which must have been in a managerial capacity involving the supervision of a large staff of property management agents and/or housing development specialists and requiring independent decisionmaking concerning program management or planning allocation of resources and the scheduling and assignment of work. Progressively responsible experience must
be demonstrated by a work history of promotions and/or assumption of increasingly responsible duties and assignments. Experience in building construction or renovation; management of residential commercial industrial or waterfront properties including both renting and operating; or site management in connection with housing or with reconstruction/rehabilitation projects; supervision of receivership tenant relocation and antiabandonment work in housing and other properties and buildings owned managed to be acquired by the City or at risk of being abandoned; or building maintenance will be accepted up to a maximum of three years toward meeting the general requirements; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of experience described in 1 above including eighteen months of experience in managerial capacity; or

3. A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have eighteen months of managerial experience. Education at an accredited college or university may be substituted for general work experience (but not for the 18 months of managerial experience described above) at the rate of 60 college semester credits for one year of acceptable experience up to a maximum of 4 years of college for 2 years of experience.

To be acceptable experience in property management must have included both renting and operating the managed properties. Experience in renting must have included interviewing prospective tenants qualifying tenants income and background and/or assuring that vacancies are ready for occupancy. Experience in operating must have included overseeing maintenance and repair of building operating systems and overseeing staff to assure that necessary work is properly completed.

To be acceptable experience in site management must have included onsite rental and maintenance of buildings.

To be acceptable experience in relocation must have included negotiation with tenants to surrender leases for cash consideration or for an alternative site and determining tenant eligibility for benefits.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime