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Professional - Non-Clinical
Director of Real Estate and Facilities
Houston, TX, US
To advise Texas Children's executives on strategic facility and property opportunities to ensure the most efficient and cost-effective use of owned and leased space. To optimize the utilization of the Texas Children's real estate portfolio and real estate deals including coordination of relocation efforts and day to day operations for current leased sites. To serve as liaison to private physician and commercial tenants in Texas Children's properties. To provide leadership and management for the Facilities Information and Real Estate staff to ensure we are achieving optimal results with our owned and leased space. To advise on all strategic issues related to space management and real estate needs.
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Job Duties & Responsibilities
• Assists in facility master planning through strategic and technical facilities forecasting, real estate assessment, feasibility studies, space management, programming, and selection for Texas Children's. Manages multi-million square footage of facilities data and multi-hundred-million-dollar real estate portfolio for all entities.
• Defines strategic requirements for real estate portfolio for entities including relocations, acquisitions, and new developments. Supervises, coordinates, and negotiates real estate deals and acquisitions for new sites and renewals including relocations, acquisitions, and initial project development (coordinating with Facilities Project Management).
• Serve as Landlord for owned sites with third party tenants such as private physicians and commercial businesses to build and maintain relationships with such tenants.
• Acts as liaison with entities. Coordinates with CHI/St. Luke’s hospital to resolve shared space issues under the Separation Agreement and related documents.
• Supervise staff handling (1) financial management of all leased sites including annual lease payments, reviewing, and auditing of operation expenses, (2) tenant relations for leased community sites (3) consultant(s), landlord and tenant relations for leased sites, (4) maintenance of facilities information for accuracy, quality, and compliance.
• Provides facilities resource data to internal departments and external entities as requested.
• Works in collaboration with department leadership to prepare, submit and maintain annual department operational budgets. Strives to achieve the goal of accreditation through the following: Ensures that Joint Commission requirements specific to your department are fulfilled but also understand the linkage between your department’s requirements and those of the integrated delivery system. And collaborates with colleagues in other departments to ensure all Joint Commission requirements are met.
Skills & Requirements
• Required bachelor's degree Education Details Business, economics, finance, real estate, construction, property management, or architecture
• Preferred master's degree Business Administration (MBA)
• Required 7 years Real Estate, business, facilities/property management and/or legal experience
About Texas Children’s
Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S.News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.
Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Center for pediatric research; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children’s care for communities north of Houston. We have also created the nation’s first HMO for children, established the largest pediatric primary care network in the country and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is also academically affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.
To join our community of 14,000+ dedicated team members, visit
texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities. You can also learn more about our amazing culture at
infinitepassion.org.
Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.
