Real Estate Development Manager — Affordable Housing

Requirement

A pan-African real estate fund is developing affordable housing in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana and needs a development manager who can carry a scheme from raw land to occupied units across three jurisdictions with genuinely different land systems. Land acquisition is the first and most dangerous phase. Title in these markets ranges from statutory registration to customary tenure with overlapping claims, and a development manager who cannot verify what is actually being acquired will commit the fund's capital to a dispute. Planning approvals follow, each market with its own consent regime, timelines that are rarely the published ones, and infrastructure conditions attached to consent. Construction management then runs against affordable housing economics, where the margin is thin enough that programme slippage and specification creep are existential rather than irritating. The role suits someone who has delivered volume residential rather than single prestige assets, and who is comfortable being accountable for cost per unit as a primary metric. Travel across all three markets is expected. Compensation is $6,000-$12,000 monthly depending on portfolio size. The requirement is high urgency against the fund's deployment schedule.