Associate Vice President, Real Estate

Company: Chicago Atlantic Advisers LLC
Location: Chicago
Posted on: February 18, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description Description: Chicago Atlantic is a private markets alternative investment manager focused on industries and companies where demand for capital exceeds traditional supply. The firm’s investment strategies include opportunistic private credit and equity with focuses on loans to esoteric industries, specialty asset-based loans, liquidity solutions and growth and technology finance. Chicago Atlantic has closed over $2.7 billion in credit facilities. Chicago Atlantic’s team of over 85 professionals has offices in Chicago, Miami, New York and London. For more information on Chicago Atlantic’s investment opportunities and financing products, visit chicagoatlantic.com. The general role of the Associate Vice President, Real Estate is to actively lead the analysis, valuation, and management of site selection and construction/development projects on behalf of the firm’s borrowers and portfolio companies. This is an in-office position and will entail travel throughout PA, MN, MD, OH, and adjacent markets. Requirements: What You'll Do: Lead retail site selection for the firm’s portfolio companies in PA, MN, MD, and OH and conduct research, due diligence, pursue zoning and entitlement approvals, construction budget analysis, and monitoring; Lead construction projects ranging from full ground-up construction to interior buildouts of industrial and retail product types; Review and assess appraisals, environmental reports, surveys, zoning and property condition reports for loans made to borrower parties and actively monitor the RE collateral within the firm’s loan portfolio; Prepare analytical and tracking reports by updating portfolio data into cloud-based programs; Work closely with multiple departments in the organization including legal, underwriting, accounting, and finance to assess the opportunities and risks of loan and investment collateral. What You'll Bring: We seek a mature and articulate, self-motivated professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, and strong interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving abilities. A positive attitude, high attention to detail, and ability to lead and collaborate within teams is essential. Minimum 7 years of real estate construction, finance, site selection experience. Degree concentrations in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Accounting or Real Estate preferred. Strong financial skills including fluency with Microsoft Excel.

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