Senior Analyst, Real Estate Advisory

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AECOM Technical Services, Inc. has multiple openings for a Senior Analyst, Real
Estate Advisory to be based in Chicago, IL.

Job Responsibilities:

• Making decisions about market demand, feasibility, and financial
• requirements as well as social impact, economic development, and public benefits.
• Create preliminary plan or concept for regional and place-based economic development, urban revitalization, real estate, tourism, and culture.
• Collaborate with other disciplines, to develop strategies that respond to the market, attract financing, and enable implementation. We address challenges through clear communication, creative thinking, and structured, impartial analysis.
• Understand how multiple factors influence value and feasibility.
• Review project design, public policies and regulations, site conditions, mitigation requirements, development and financing costs, phasing, and implementation challenges.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to lead discrete technical tasks, including developing and implementing quantitative analytical approaches; conducting data analysis, economic and financial modeling, literature reviews, and interviews; developing graphics and presentations to communicate key findings; and writing sections of client deliverables and proposals.
• Work closely with managers to balance multiple projects and deadlines.
• Analyzing Census Bureau data. ·
• Researching and analyzing existing land use patterns, zoning regulations, and development trends to understand the current state of the community.
• Facilitating community engagement processes to gather input from residents, businesses, and stakeholders.
• Holding public meetings, workshops, and hearings to ensure that community perspectives are considered in the planning process.
• Collaborating with various stakeholders, including government agencies, developers, community organizations, and elected officials, to ensure coordination and support for land use plans.
• Creating comprehensive land use plans that take into account factors such as population growth, environmental considerations, transportation needs, and community development goals.
• Assessing and recommending changes to zoning ordinances and regulations to
• align with the goals of the land use plan.
• Implementing and enforcing zoning codes to regulate land development.
• Reviewing and evaluating development proposals and site plans to ensure compliance with zoning regulations and land use plans.
• Providing recommendations to decision-making bodies, such as planning commissions or city councils.
• May telecommute.

Minimum Requirements:

Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree in Economics, Urban and Regional Planning, Real Estate, Business or related field followed by 4 years of experience in job offered or in a Real Estate Advisory-related occupation.

Position requires experience in the following:

• Developing cashflow models from scratch in Excel reflecting capital asset investments and
• returns including public-private partnership, and equity waterfalls.
• Navigating and thriving in a multi-disciplinary work environment
• ArcGIS and other including MS Word, Excel, and presentations as tools to support;
• Utilizing economic and real estate data sources including CoStar, municipal open data
• portals, ESRI Business Analyst, and On The Map
• Collecting and organizing economic and demographic data from the Census Bureau,
• collecting employment-related data from EMSI, subsidized housing data from HUD and NHPD, transportation data from DOT, federal funding sources from grants.gov, and other data from state/county/city official websites; and
• Developing presentations and reports that convey complex analytical efforts succinctly.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.