Portfolio Manager

**About the Rental Protection Fund**

The Rental Protection Fund is a non-profit organization created to safeguard affordable housing, building a more sustainable and equitable future for British Columbians. Our mission is to slow the loss of existing, occupied rental homes by supporting their acquisition by non-profit affordable housing providers.

Led by the community housing sector and backed by a $500 million provincial investment, the Fund is focused on creating housing stability and keeping homes affordable.

At the Rental Protection Fund, you’ll find a passionate, team driven by a unique social purpose mandate that draws from diverse sectors, including real estate, urban planning, public policy, and geography, all united by a shared commitment to impact. We’re big on bold ideas, curious minds, and creative, tech-forward approaches to preserving the affordability that already exists.

**The Role: Portfolio Manager**

As Portfolio Manager, you'll work hand-in-hand with RPF team and our partners to drive operational sustainability, building renewal and organizational resilience to protect affordability for thousands of residents across a spectrum of Fund-supported properties. Through strategic oversight, relationship building, and data-driven decision-making, you'll help create a self-sustaining ecosystem where each asset contributes to the larger mission of permanent housing affordability across the province.

As a vital connection between properties, non-profit partners, lenders, and internal teams, you’ll play an important part in the Fund’s underwriting process and ensure all reporting obligations to funders, government stakeholders, and oversight bodies are met, and help protect the long-term sustainability of Fund-supported buildings, ensuring long-term housing security for the British Columbians who call them home.

**Strategic Stewardship & Partnerships**
- Oversee the stewardship of housing assets under Fund initiatives, ensuring operational and financial outcomes align with organizational objectives and long-term affordability commitments.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across the housing ecosystem, including non-profits, building/property managers, government partners, lenders, suppliers/contractors and other community partners.
- Maintain trust-based relationships and open communication with non-profit partners, fostering collaborative engagement, strategic stewardship, proactive risk identification, and sharing of sector best practices
- Assess unique characteristics and requirements of each building to co-create integrated, effective, and sustainable stewardship strategies
- Monitor compliance with performance indicators, affordability covenants, and funder-imposed requirements throughout the building’s lifecycle.
- Develop and/or expand upon systems, processes, and tools to support effective oversight and decision-making.
- Identify and foster strategic collaborations, programs, and opportunities that amplify the Fund's impact, advance affordability solutions beyond individual properties and/or cultivate resilience and innovation across the community housing ecosystem.

**Capital Strategy & Risk Management**
- Develop and monitor long-term portfolio strategies to support sustainable stewardship, comprehensive risk mitigation, and organizational resilience.
- Identify and facilitate portfolio-wide operational efficiencies, such as bulk purchasing programs, shared service arrangements, or coordinated vendor procurement, including establishing the systems and partnerships needed to sustain these initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with other RPF Team members on the evaluation and underwriting of potential Fund investments and throughout due diligence, including analyzing Building Condition Assessments, engineers reports and other capital needs reports and making recommendations on capital reserve planning and strategic capital plan delivery to ensure long-term building sustainability.
- Support long-term financial planning and forecasting based on economic trends, historical performance data, and evolving market conditions, including ongoing improvements to systems and processes for cost tracking and forecasting
- Manage environmental matters, risk exposures, and insurance requirements, ensuring adequate coverage and compliance with risk management practices.
- Support refinancing, repositioning, and other strategic decision-making through thoughtful review, analysis and well-considered recommendations.

**Investment Management & Performance Analytics**
- Collaborate with internal teams to manage compliance and reporting obligations related to affordability, performance metrics, and public funding accountability.
- Create detailed financial reports, forecasts, and analytical models to support strategic stewardship of the portfolio
- Oversee property reporting, and annual operating and capital budgets, ensuring accuracy and alignment with approved targets. Review f