Salary : $73,368.18 - $122,730.30 Annually
Location : Norfolk, VA
Job Type: Unclassified
Job Number: 13292
Department: Housing and Community Development
Opening Date: 07/16/2025
Closing Date: 7/31/2025 11:59 PM Eastern

Description

The City of Norfolk is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join an exciting opportunity with the Department of Housing and Community Development. The Department of Housing and Community Development is committed to creating vibrant, thriving, and resilient communities. We work to ensure that all Norfolk residents have access to safe and high-quality housing while fostering economic mobility, education, and health and wellness. Our goal is to develop, preserve, and revitalize neighborhoods through transparent, responsible, and inclusive processes.

The Senior Project Manager will oversee and coordinate the physical aspects of neighborhood redevelopment projects, with a particular focus on neighborhood transformations that may include infrastructure, utilities, and housing coordination components (St. Paul's Area Transformation). This role will serve as a key liaison between Housing Developers and the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), ensuring a smooth transition through the city's development approval/entitlement process and compliance with requirements for tax credit applications, as well as other local, state, and federal funding requests. The Senior Project Manager will collaborate closely with city department Project Managers and their engineering consultants to facilitate the delivery of city infrastructure design and construction projects, while managing complex project timelines. The Senior Project Manager will also play a key role in community, resident, and business outreach provide regular project updates and reports, and support master planning efforts.
The Senior Project Manager ensures that projects are completed on schedule, within budget, and to the highest degree of quality with the available resources. The position will report directly to the Neighborhood Transformation division Bureau Manager of the Department of Housing and Community Development.
The City of Norfolk values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, including women, minorities and underrepresented communities to apply and join us in this transformative work.

Essential Functions
Essential functions include but are not limited to:

• Coordinates with the Housing Developer and various housing development teams (Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, architects, urban design consultants and engineers) to ensure the housing and neighborhood development goals for the project are met.
• Coordinates housing entitlement process with the City Planning department and housing development partners.
• Support and ensure the timely and accurate submission of any tax credit applications, as well as all local, state, and federal housing funding requests.
• Facilitate the coordination of city infrastructure design and construction for transportation, utility, and parks & open space projects, collaborating with Project Managers from multiple city departments, Construction Managers, Engineering Consultants, and Private Utility Managers to ensure seamless execution.
• Develops and monitor multiple progress schedules, while maintaining a master schedule for all projects.
• Effectively communicate project priorities, ensuring that resident-driven needs are accurately represented and integrated into the physical development of transformation projects.
• Provides updates to department leadership on future budgetary needs, based on project development and schedules.
• Collaborates and coordinates project timelines, initiatives and resident communication with other department Project Managers.
• Coordinates and manages relationships with businesses and organizations within the project area to ensure they are informed about development and construction activities, as well as any project requirements.
• Present city infrastructure project overview and updates to department leadership, city leadership, stakeholders and community groups.
• Supports the insertion of economic inclusion goals into city contracting solicitations.
• Supports the process for grant applications and reporting for federal grants already awarded.

Education/Experience
Work requires specialized knowledge in a professional or technical field. Knowledge is normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Qualified applicants should possess five (5) years of project management and strategic planning experience with a minimum of two (2) years of working in infrastructure or commercial construction or related fields.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:

• Strong project management skills
• Capabilities in Microsoft Projects and Excel spreadsheet development
• Extensive experience monitoring progress schedules, budgets, and contracts.
• Experience with Agile management practices
• Experience coordinating and leading meetings with a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience managing multiple and simultaneous multi-million-dollar projects.
• Strong negotiation, communication, team building and collaboration skills.

Additional Information & Requirements

Work Hours: 40 hours a week (8:30AM-5:00PM) Monday- Friday; Occasional Evening and Weekends

• Regular full-time and permanent part-time employees may receive paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, employer paid pension plan, basic life insurance, voluntary participation in medical and dental, Section 457 deferred compensation, long-term disability, optional life insurance for self, spouse and children, medical and dependent care reimbursement plans, access to membership in credit union and employer provided parking.
  
• Special project/grant employees are generally eligible for the same benefits of regular full-time employees; however, retirement, life insurance and participation in health plans vary depending upon funding and authorization.
  
• Temporary/seasonal and part-time employees are generally only eligible for employer provided parking and access to membership in credit union.
  
• Retirement

If you are hired October 5, 2010, or after to a position with City of Norfolk Retirement System benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

If you are hired January 1, 2022, or after to a position with Virginia Retirement System (VRS) benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

• The Tuition Assistance Program is established to encourage employees toward continued self-development and education. Permanent full-time and permanent part-time classified, unclassified permanent, full-time special projects, and constitutional employees who have completed six months continuous service will be eligible to apply. The applicant's school of enrollment must be an accredited institution.

NOTE:
The benefits described above are broad generalizations. The specific benefits that an employee may be eligible for are governed by City regulations, as applicable to job type.
Non-City
Positions listed with a job type designation of "Non-City" are not subject to the benefits descriptions above. Refer to the content of the job posting for information regarding these positions.
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