Program Manager Capital Acquisitions

**Job Description**:
**Program Manager Capital Acquisitions**

**Legislative Services
- RPAM**

**Status**:Regular Full Time

**Salary Range**:$107,121-$133,902 per annum plus comprehensive benefits

**Work mode**:Hybrid* _see below for more details about this work mode._

**Location**:10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton

**Hours of work**:35 hours per week

**Who we are**: The Real Estate Section of the Real Property Asset Management Division (the RE Section) provides the acquisition, management, and disposal of Regional real property to align the Regional Corporation’s real estate portfolio with it’s service delivery needs. The Capital Acquisitions team specializes in the field of negotiations and appraisal services. Our staff are experienced in all professional and technical services required to conduct confidential negotiations for the acquisition of land, for multi-owner capital projects with a consistent methodology.

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Do you have experience in Municipal Capital Infrastructure? _**_Are you familiar with and have experience with expropriations? _**_Do you have a passion for leading a team of seasoned professionals?_**

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We have a great opportunity for someone like you to join our Real Property Asset Management team Keep reading for more detail..._**
- Make recommendations to the Manager, Capital Acquisitions on agreements, properties, and expropriation settlements while continuously striving to improve processes and identify opportunities for cost-reduction
- Manage considerable acquisitions (including environmentally sensitive lands) and risk management
- Identify opportunities to improve the functional use of real estate for the maximum benefit of Regional programs
- Implement strategies that will manage the Region’s long term interests in relation to capital infrastructure interests
- Respond to enquiries from senior level management at the Region, elected officials, area municipalities, conservation authorities, province, and various stakeholders (in particular Public Works management)
- Effective and extensive communication which involves interpreting, negotiating, and persuading internal and external stakeholders to advance program and Regional goals
- Provide professional advice and recommendations in relation to valuation of real estate assets, assess business and financial risks in the context of overall market and economic conditions.
- Make decisions that significantly impact the establishment and achievement of program and project service objectives to complete capital infrastructure projects including impacts on the price paid for land, the reputation of the Region to land owners, and the impacts the timing and budget of large capital infrastructure projects (road, water, wastewater, waste)
- Utilize independent judgment to guide real estate team where policies do not provide guidance to conduct in-depth investigation and extensive research (political impacts, individual impacts to owner, review of law, appraisal information, market condition, scheduling of construction project) for strategic feasibility and analysis (full buy out/partial taking, expropriation, business loss, injurious affection, special damages), appropriate compensation settlement in expropriation situation and negotiate and implement recommended solution
- Manage day-to-day dispute resolution as necessary to deliver multiple and complex real estate acquisitions
- Set objectives, prioritizing, scheduling tasks/resources, and monitoring budgets for specific client acquisitions
- Provide planning, analysis, review, and resource allocation for projects stemming from the client department
- Track work progress and prepare monthly summaries and reporting progress to senior management
- Assist in the definition of project objectives, scope of work, and proposed schedules
- Oversee consultants/contractors in the delivery of cost-effective projects and operations

**What the role requires**:

- University degree or college diploma in a related field (i.e., Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Affairs and Real Estate)
- Minimum of 5 years of municipal real estate experience preferably in capital project land acquisitions
- Demonstrated leadership abilities and/or previous supervisory experience
- Member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and/or International Right of Way Association with an AACI and/or SRWA designation, or qualifications leading to such designations
- Combination of education and experience may be considered

**Skills/Abilities**:

- Thorough knowledge of all applicable legislation related to capital projects, including Expropriation Act, Municipal Act, and Environment Assessment Act
- Thorough knowledge of Registry Office/Land Title Office procedures, legal surveys and plans, and engineering procedures and plans as they relate to property rights and acquisitions
- Thorough knowledge of general legal matters pertaining to transfer of real property
- Strong project management skills
- Strong communication, n