Department: Investments

Reports to: Principal, Investments

Location: Nashville, TN

This role will be performed onsite in the Nashville office.

Adventurous Journeys Capital Partners (“AJCP”) is seeking a Director to join the Investments team to assist in analyzing/managing new and existing investment opportunities and oversight of existing investments in the portfolio, and support its rapid growth across various investment platforms focused on the office, multifamily, retail, hospitality, and mixed-use sectors.

ABOUT AJCP

AJCP is a vertically integrated real estate investment manager anchored by the core principles of hospitality, placemaking, and residentially inspired design. Founded in 2008, AJCP is headquartered in Nashville, TN, with offices in Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, New York and New Orleans. With over $5.3 billion of fair market value in current real estate investments, AJCP’s deeply-rooted hospitality experience has transpired to other mixed-use real estate including single-family housing, inspired office, retail, music venue and multi-family developments. Today, AJCP has grown to oversee approximately 130 in-house employees including investment, development, design, asset management, portfolio management and accounting professionals, each with diverse competencies and real estate-related skill sets. AJCP believes this vertical integration produces significant value-add efficiencies and increased investment opportunities through an expanded industry network. For more information on AJCP, please visit www.ajcpt.com

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Director will work collaboratively with the Investments team on expanding and overseeing the company’s leased real estate and other platforms. The role will be responsible for leading aspects of the investment process including, but not limited to, underwriting, market analysis, coordination of due diligence, preparation of investment memorandums and executive-level presentations, business plan ideation and evaluation, creation of investor materials, closing logistics, and on-going investment management analysis, such as leasing analysis, liquidity analysis, refinance analysis, and quarterly investment update reports.

The role will interface directly with a variety of groups within AJ Capital Partners including Asset Management, Capital Markets, Design, Development, Investor Relations, Marketing, and Portfolio Management.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Monitor and analyze new deal opportunities, and prepare and maintain robust comprehensive underwriting models for a variety of hospitality, retail, food & beverage, office, multifamily, mixed-use, music venues, and other real estate investment opportunities, including complex cash flows with fund/partnership waterfall modeling
• Help coordinate the origination of acquisitions and debt financings, including preparing offering materials, responding to lender due diligence requests, tracking offers, modeling proposals, and managing the closing process
• Assist with the leasing process for a variety of office, retail, and food & beverage tenants, with responsibilities including, among others, preparation and review of LOIs, coordination of leasing documents and communication to internal and external stakeholders
• Conduct market/submarket analysis for real estate acquisition targets, asset classes and sectors
• Support the due diligence process across all aspects of the transaction including physical, financial, legal, and operational due diligence
• Maintain data rooms and facilitate communication between key stakeholders (including sellers, brokers, joint venture partners, financial institutions and legal) and coordinate transfer of materials including throughout the closing process
• Prepare investment memorandums for the firm’s investment committee
• Prepare regular internal communications related to in-progress deals for investors and internal stakeholders.
• Create analyses, memorandums, or presentations for investors or internal stakeholders based on identified needs or ad hoc requests.
• Work in collaboration with the asset management, portfolio management, capital markets and on-property management teams in a “cradle-to-grave” approach, to provide investment support for operating forecasts, capital expenditure plans, liquidity analysis, and other needs.

WHO YOU ARE

AJCP is seeking a highly-motivated individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced, but disciplined, entrepreneurial environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with real estate acquisitions, development, capital markets and commercial real estate finance, structures and strategies. This role also requires the following capabilities:

• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to draw conclusions from research and data analysis and communicate them effectively
• Highly motivated, organized, disciplined, and self-directed individual who is eager to learn, deals well with uncertainty at times, and can multitask efficiently
• Ability to work well and communicate effectively with a broad range of individuals and professions and foster working relationships with all members of the team and outside parties
• Critical thinker with an ability to solve complex problems
• Ability to work and coordinate against firm deadlines
• High degree of professionalism, ethics, and a strong work ethic driven by a desire for quality
• Ability to work flexible and extended hours (including possibly on weekends) to accommodate increased workload/projects

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, real estate, or related discipline
• 5 years of relevant experience in real estate investment or investment banking
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and real estate financial modeling experience (technical modeling test part of the interview process)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (writing sample required as part of the interview process)
• Intermediate Microsoft PowerPoint skills and presentation-making experience
• Experience with other Microsoft Office products (Word, Outlook, etc.)
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Equal Employment Opportunity:

AJCP is an equal employment opportunity employer and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on an individual’s race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, reproductive health decision-making, sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. AJCP is dedicated to the fulfillment of this policy in regard to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, transfer, training, promotion, rates of pay, other compensation, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.