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Accelerate your success at Colliers.
Onsite Role, Toronto, Ontario
Why Colliers?
As one of Canada’s leading commercial real estate services firms, we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people, clients, and communities.
Colliers Strategy and Consulting Group has the largest dedicated real property strategy and consulting practice in Canada, supported by the country’s largest real estate services company.
The Development Advisory team is a full-service real estate platform that has offices in Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary. Its pipeline of projects has a construction value exceeding $12 billion, and includes high-rise urban mixed-use towers, affordable housing communities, large-scale industrial warehouses, urban and suburban office buildings, and large-scale commercial land plays. Servicing both the public and private sectors, its clients include insurance companies, pension plans, private equity fund managers, corporations, family offices, and non-profits, universities, and municipalities.
About the role:
Are you an aspiring development associate seeking to grow your knowledge and expertise? Do you want exposure to a variety of clients and development types?

We’re seeking an Associate, Development Advisory, who will support the Development Advisory East Team (including SVPs, VPs and Directors) on project related requirements. This includes providing planning context research, contributing to project team procurements and coordination, and taking an active role in development project design, approvals, and delivering construction projects. The Associate contributes materially to ensuring the entire Development Team is up to date with provincial and municipal policy changes, provides analytical and management support, assists with the preparation and issuance of important documents such as minutes, agendas, and status reports, and ensures project files are complete and organized.

• Provide ongoing support related to the successful completion of projects, from project feasibility through to project close out.
• Help generate project plans, schedules, and budgets for all assigned real estate projects and contribute to developing strong client relationships.
• Manage project deliverables to meet critical dates and quality requirements.
• Contribute efforts to project reports, assist in the preparation of client correspondence, site inspection reports and PowerPoint presentations.
• Coordinate the procurements of design consultants in accordance with an approved pro forma and approved pre-development budget.
• Help track development schedules including critical project milestones dates.
• Support the analyst team and accounting team in producing the overall development pro-forma through the development process by collecting assumptions as directed.
• Contribute to project related reporting, submissions, and daily tasks.
• Maintain meeting minutes, actions, task lists, and agendas for all internal/external meetings with clients, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Assist the Development Manager with review and provide feedback to the architects and other design consultants through project design bearing in mind: construction costs, layouts, client objectives, market trends and the target market for each specific project.

What you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Urban Planning, Business or Urban Land Economics.
• 1-3 years of Development experience in a similar role.
• Proficiency with MS Project and Outlook, with a strong proficiency with Excel.
• Exceptional analytical skills with a strong ability to think through a range of possibilities and scenarios.
• Knowledge of regulatory and Planning processes and policies, Provincial Planning Act, current development processes and trends.
• Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and listening skills.
• Detail-oriented with an ability to multi-task on a regular basis.
• Commercial real estate experience with a network of professionals within the industry.

What we offer:

• Innovative projects: Work on cutting-edge initiatives that shape our communities, drive our growth, and make a tangible impact.
• Career growth: Advance your career and achieve your goals with industry-leading training and development programs.
• Competitive benefits & compensation: Enjoy a comprehensive and flexible benefits package along with competitive compensation that rewards your contributions and supports your well-being.
• Collaborative culture: Join our enterprising team where innovation thrives, collaboration is key, and our people are empowered to be their authentic selves and do their best work.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Our robust North American Diversity & Inclusion Program features eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where you can connect, learn, and contribute to a diverse and supportive community. Learn more:

https://www.collierscanada.com/en-ca/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

• Global network: Join a global team of 22,000 professionals across 68 countries, where you’ll expand your network and learn from experts in a dynamic international community. Accelerate your career and enhance your expertise as you connect and collaborate with top talent around the world.

Apply now:
Ready to make an impact and take the next step in your career journey? Join us by applying directly through LinkedIn or visit
www.collierscanada.com/careers
.
Direct applicants only please, no agencies.
Colliers is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce. Colliers encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate applicants’ disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment team by email at
careers@colliers.com
.

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What we offer:
Innovative projects: Work on cutting-edge initiatives that shape our communities, drive our growth, and make a tangible impact.
Career growth: Advance your career and achieve your goals with industry-leading training and development programs.
Competitive benefits & compensation: Enjoy a comprehensive and flexible benefits package along with competitive compensation that rewards your contributions and supports your well-being.
Collaborative culture: Join our enterprising team where innovation thrives, collaboration is key, and our people are empowered to be their authentic selves and do their best work.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Our robust North American Diversity & Inclusion Program features eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where you can connect, learn, and contribute to a diverse and supportive community. Learn more:
https://www.collierscanada.com/en-ca/careers/diversity-and-inclusion
Global network: Join a global team of 22,000 professionals across 68 countries, where you’ll expand your network and learn from experts in a dynamic international community. Accelerate your career and enhance your expertise as you connect and collaborate with top talent around the world.
Direct applicants only please, no agencies.
Colliers is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce. Colliers encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate applicants’ disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact the recruitment team by email at
careers@colliers.com

• Provide ongoing support related to the successful completion of projects, from project feasibility through to project close out.
• Help generate project plans, schedules, and budgets for all assigned real estate projects and contribute to developing strong client relationships.
• Manage project deliverables to meet critical dates and quality requirements.
• Contribute efforts to project reports, assist in the preparation of client correspondence, site inspection reports and PowerPoint presentations.
• Coordinate the procurements of design consultants in accordance with an approved pro forma and approved pre-development budget.
• Help track development schedules including critical project milestones dates.
• Support the analyst team and accounting team in producing the overall development pro-forma through the development process by collecting assumptions as directed.
• Contribute to project related reporting, submissions, and daily tasks.
• Maintain meeting minutes, actions, task lists, and agendas for all internal/external meetings with clients, consultants, and stakeholders.
• Assist the Development Manager with review and provide feedback to the architects and other design consultants through project design bearing in mind: construction costs, layouts, client objectives, market trends and the target market for each specific project