Application Manager

Woda Cooper Companies, Inc. is a rapidly growing development, construction, and property management organization dedicated to the creation of quality affordable housing to benefit those who need it most. We are an employee-owned, passion-driven group that changes each community of which we are a part. We manage over 16,000 housing units in 17 states, proudly serving seniors, veterans, and other economically challenged groups. We seek ambitious, talented individuals who want to grow with a rapidly expanding company whose success is not only measured in dollars and cents, but in lives changed.

The education team works to increase the knowledge base of the Woda Cooper team, conducts onboarding, and ensures compliance in all regulatory matters to ensure the growth of WC personnel. The application manager is responsible for reviewing and drafting templates for Low Income Housing Tax Credit (“LIHTC”) applications to State Housing Agencies, and collecting data and reports. This process entails mastering the various state’s Qualified Allocation Plans (“QAP”), tracking QAP changes from cycle to cycle, assisting with assigning tasks to each state development team to produce applications, maintaining a schedule of critical deadlines, ensuring timely submissions of LIHTC applications, and ensuring all threshold and competitive scoring criteria for the application are properly and well documented. Any applicant must be self-motivated, deadline driven, able to work with other team members, have a keen attention to detail, strong writing skills, strong critical reading comprehension skills, at least a basic understanding of finance and capital structures, and strong organizational skills.

Responsibilities:

Application Preparation and Submission: managing and submitting comprehensive applications to HFA’s, soft financing partners, requests for proposals from municipalities or financing partners, and other relevant applications to secure LIHTC financing, land, or other resources.

Project management: strong organizational skills to manage complex applications with strict deadlines.

Document management: producing and maintaining meticulous records of all application materials, communications, and supporting documents

Compliance and due diligence: ensuring the application demonstrates strong adherence to LIHTC regulations, QAP criteria, and other federal and state requirements.

Post-application management: Following up with HFA’s on any application deficiencies while ensuring an application moves through the review and approval stages smoothly.

Staying current: keeping abreast of changes and updates with QAPs, the LIHTC program, HFA policies, and other relevant rules or regulations.

Stakeholder coordination: Liaising with HFAs, market analysts, multiple internal departments of Woda Cooper Companies, and others to ensure deadlines are met and quality applications are produced.

Qualifications:

Education: A bachelor’s degree requiring extensive writing is required. A postgraduate degree is preferred.

Experience: Experience with grant writing, fundraising, LIHTC application preparation, or similar experience required. LIHTC experience is preferred.

Skills: Essential skills include strong written and verbal communication, research and analytical abilities, organizational and time management skills, keen attention to detail, proficiency with Microsoft office products such as word and excel, and the ability to work independently and part of a team.