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About the Role

Karp Strategies is hiring an Associate / Project Manager to lead delivery on projects ranging from real estate and market analysis, workforce development, economic impact analyses, and community engagement, spanning sectors, size, and geographies. This is a managing-and-doing role where you will own project schedules, budget, and team workflows, serve as the day-to-day contact for our Prime firm and client, and work with the project team to turn analysis into strategy and recommendations. You will work closely with Project Directors and Principals, who set strategy and methodology, and with Analysts, whose work you will guide and validate before it reaches leadership.

Responsibilities

Manage full project life cycles: schedules, work plans, staffing, team workflows, and QA/QC across concurrent workstreams.
Work with the client's point of contact to align on project schedule and delivery timelines.
Estimate the time and resources required to successfully deliver a task and make sure the team has these reserved.
Coordinate the many moving pieces behind high-quality deliverables.
Oversee project administration, shared file systems, documentation, and regular reporting to Directors and Principals.
Utilize firm project management systems and tools in your day-to-day work.
Contribute to improving these systems and processes across the firm.
Own the project budget and manage it toward project and firm financial goals.
Maintain project financial tracking and invoicing, and report financial status to Project and Firm Leadership.
Use financial data to inform project strategy and contribute to project and firm-wide staffing decisions.
Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for the client and partner firms, building trust through responsive, relationship-minded communication.
Facilitate client meetings, stakeholder interviews, steering committee meetings, workshops, and public community engagement.
Plan and execute stakeholder engagement strategy across government agencies, community members, local businesses, and other partners.
Synthesize stakeholder input to shape the project.
Oversee quantitative and qualitative analysis across economic, workforce, market, policy, and real estate topics, including economic impact analyses, socioeconomic and market analyses, and financial feasibility work.
Review and validate models (such as pro formas and economic impact analyses) and QA/QC deliverables before they go to the Project Director.
Synthesize multi-source data into strategic findings, and integrate them with partner work as needed.
Communicate findings and recommendations clearly and persuasively, in writing and in person, tailoring the message to each audience.
Author complete client deliverables: reports, executive summaries, memos, and strategic recommendations, with a clear storyline that leads from evidence to action.
Oversee infographics, data visualizations, maps, and decks that translate technical findings for non-technical audiences.
Present confidently to clients and external stakeholders with clarity and sound judgment.
Coach and manage team members through project delivery, and remain responsive to their needs.
Uphold our culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and feedback.
Step into a people-management role, with support and training from the firm.
Lead proposal responses to RFPs and RFQs, including scoping project approaches and preparing project fee proposals.
Identify add-on opportunities with existing clients.

Requirements

3–5 years of relevant experience in economic development, real estate, urban planning, or consulting.
Demonstrated project management experience, including managing budgets and project finances and leading team members to meet timelines and complete deliverables.
Client relationship experience and a track record of building trust across varied stakeholders, such as clients, partner firms, government agencies, and community members.
Experience in community economic development, workforce development, placemaking, and stakeholder engagement.
Familiarity with analytical methods in economic and workforce analysis and/or real estate feasibility.
Working knowledge of foundational real estate concepts, such as pro formas and sources and uses of funding.
Familiarity with socioeconomic and market data sources and platforms, such as Census data, IMPLAN, and CoStar.
Strong writing skills are a must.
Experience overseeing graphic design and data visualization.
An entrepreneurial orientation and excitement about working in a maturing startup environment.
Deep curiosity about planning issues and a demonstrated commitment to applying an equity lens to this work.
Openness and appetite to learn, including interest in other kinds of work across the firm such as community engagement, strategic planning, climate resiliency, and other sectors and verticals.
Multilingual written and oral skills are highly regarded.
Experience working with traditionally underserved populations is highly regarded.

Skills

Project management
Budget management
Financial tracking
Client relationship management
Stakeholder engagement
Economic analysis
Workforce analysis
Market analysis
Real estate feasibility
Real estate concepts
Pro formas
Sources and uses of funding
Socioeconomic data
Market data
Census data
IMPLAN
CoStar
Writing
Graphic design
Data visualization
Adobe Creative Suite
PowerPoint
Google Workspace
Entrepreneurial orientation
Equity lens
Continuous learning
Feedback
Proposal writing
RFP/RFQ response

Location

New York | Fidi

Work Type

Full Time
Some travel may be required

Experience Level

3-5 years of relevant experience

Salary/Compensations

$75,000 - $90,000 / year

Benefits

Professional development opportunities (memberships, conferences, training)
Medical, vision, and dental benefits
One Medical membership
20 days of PTO
7 days of sick/safe leave
401(k) match
HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits

About the Company

Karp Strategies is hiring an Associate / Project Manager to lead delivery on projects ranging from real estate and market analysis, workforce development, economic impact analyses, and community engagement, spanning sectors, size, and geographies.
The ideal candidate is excited by the intersection of economic development, real estate, urban planning, and management consulting.
You will thrive here if you enjoy a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, are comfortable learning as you go, and want to be hands-on in shaping the work.

Equal Opportunity

To keep unbiased and equitable hiring practices, we use a blind applicant system.
Our team members are unable to have informal discussions around openings during the hiring process to maintain our equity approach.