Practice Group Co-Lead, Transit-Oriented Real Estate Economics and Finance

This Opportunity

Leverage your experience to help transit agencies and local governments move Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) projects from the planning stage into the real world. Be an interdisciplinary leader, managing project teams that bring together financial analysts, urban designers, architects, legal compliance professionals, land use planners, and grant funding experts to bring client opportunities to market, execute joint development agreements and real estate transactions, and maximize their financial returns.

Lead large-scale, complex projects by clearly communicating contributor roles and deadlines, preparing and managing project budgets, monitoring both internal and external activities, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring performance standards and profitability, and overseeing subcontractors, external stakeholders, contract assignments, and staff.

Take responsibility for identifying and developing business opportunities across North America, particularly those of significant scale. Leverage relationships with peers in transportation services as well as leads generated by your WSP colleagues. Coordinate business development efforts with specialists in urban design, planning, cost estimation, economics and finance, organization management, and public-private partnerships governance to identify opportunities, build client relationships, and deliver comprehensive services to clients.

Take a leadership role in WSP’s Real Estate Economics and Finance Advisory Group, which assists clients with maximizing the value of their land, buildings, properties, and parking lots. This frequently involves working with transit agencies, municipalities, and property owners on making the most out of transit-oriented development opportunities by advising them on how to make changes to zoning and land use policies, joint development partnership structures, and transportation services in order positively affect the potential value of future projects and find new sources of revenue.

• Provide proactive and strategic process and people leadership for the design, implementation, and administration of projects concerning real estate transactions with a public‑sector principal in the Transit‑Oriented Development and Real Estate Finance discipline, including senior leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics.

• Guide the development and execution of real estate development strategies that align with agency objectives and community interests. Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, and transaction summaries to clients’ organizational management, elected officials, and/or governing boards.

• Advise clients on comparative pros and cons of leveraging surplus land sales, ground leases, joint development vehicles, public‑private partnerships, build‑to‑suit, and leasing space, based on their project goals, current market conditions, and local site and legal characteristics.

• Model exemplary “trusted advisor” service and provide future‑focused solutions to clients. Monitor project schedules, budgets, and deliverables, coordinating with legal, financial, and technical teams as required. Ensure profitable management and successful completion of individual projects within the assigned area.

• Develop and implement long‑term strategies for growth and pipeline advancement in Advisory Services for WSP within designated areas, emphasizing land value opportunities across all sectors, including transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power.

• Leverage expertise and relationships to market knowledge and capabilities and development new clients and projects.

• Assist in preparing annual updates to tactical business action plans.

The Consulting Services the Real Estate Economics and Finance Advisory Group Provides:

• Real Estate Economics and Market Analysis:
  Comparative market analysis that reveals hyper‑local and specific information about real estate submarkets.

• Financial Architecture, Asset Monetization, Value Capture:
  Develop ongoing and self‑perpetuating revenue streams by leveraging markets and land value increases driven by transit investment.

• Financial…