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• Competitive salary and benefit packages
• A culture committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion 
• Hybrid work schedule that supports work-life balance
• Professional development opportunities

If you are looking for a career-defining opportunity, share similar values, and are ready to make a difference in the real estate finance industry, look no further. Apply today!

Summary

The Senior, Specialist, Policy supports public policy, business, and member engagement activities of MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily (CMF) Group. The incumbent will report directly to the Head of Commercial/Multifamily Policy and will contribute to the ability of the CMF Group to achieve industry advocacy objectives, and to have a meaningful impact on policy issues that can substantially affect the industry.

Researches, identifies, tracks, analyzes, and writes about policy developments affecting MBA members. The incumbent works with the membership to formulate MBA’s commercial and multifamily advocacy positions, manages complex regulatory policy-focused projects; communicates orally and in writing to policymakers and to members; and coordinates across MBA and other trade associations. The Senior Specialist, Policy also enhances MBA member engagement by preparing communications to members; identifying policy trends, issues, and concerns of interest to members; and convening members.

Recent, current, and future areas of the policy include environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policy, state and local legislative and regulatory policy; FHFA regulatory actions, the GSEs, and housing reform; capital standards for life insurance companies, banks; CMBS; tax policy; accounting treatment of commercial real estate and mortgages; the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; FHA and HUD multifamily policy; flood insurance; and affordable housing.

Specifications

The position requires high levels of analysis, communication, organization, judgment and discretion, clarity of thought, proactivity, appetite for gaining deep knowledge and for growing expertise in the CMF finance industry, and a willingness to operate outside of their current comfort zones in an environment that can change quickly.

The incumbent will be a self-starter, motivated, with strong oral and written communication skills, and comfortable operating independently and as part of a team. The incumbent will also have a demonstrated ability to take ownership of areas of responsibility and for the ultimate success of assigned projects. Self-sufficiency in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Aptify or other member database software preferred.

An undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline combined with a minimum of five to eight years of progressive Commercial real estate finance experience is required. The incumbent should have knowledge and experience in some or all of the following areas:

• Advocacy
• Complex policy and legal matters
• Trade association practice
• Regulatory or legislative processes
• Communicating clearly to a variety of audiences
• Drafting complex documents on deadline with multiple inputs

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

All MBA employees must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.