Development Coordinator, Real Estate
Ready for a unique and challenging opportunity to take your career to the next level? Make your mark across a diverse asset mix of commercial, residential and industrial located across multiple Canadian cities and provinces.
Full-time permanent role
Location: Downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (5 days a week in office with parking included)
Hours: 40 hours/week
Salary Range: $80,000-$120,000
Flexibility for some evening and weekend work and occasional travel.
The posted salary range reflects varying levels of experience, from professionals developing their expertise to those with several years of directly relevant experience. While the full range represents the potential earnings for the role, it is not typical for new hires to start at the top of the range. Placement within the range is based on qualifications, experience, and alignment with internal equity.
Your opportunity
Westerkirk Capital Inc. (‘WCI’), a private investment company based in Victoria, BC is seeking a Development Coordinator, Real Estate. The organization is a single-family office managing assets via internal direct and third-party/external managers across a variety of portfolios and asset classes.
Reporting to the Director, Real Estate Development, you’ll help advance residential, industrial, and commercial developments across multiple Canadian cities and provinces. Working across a diverse portfolio, you’ll help explore development options, optimize density and design flexibility, and move projects efficiently from opportunity through approvals and delivery. You’ll work with external consultants and colleagues across real estate, investment, construction, finance, and legal. Expect variety, meaningful responsibility, and opportunities to deepen your expertise across asset classes and markets.
What you’ll make happen
You understand the work it takes to get projects started and approved. You combine technical knowledge with practical thinking, ask the right questions, and keep people and projects moving.
- Unlock development potential: Support feasibility assessments and research planning policies, zoning requirements, and development options to help identify the best path forward.
- Advance approvals: Coordinate applications, drawings, technical reports, and responses to municipal and agency comments. Track requirements and keep submissions moving.
- Connect people and decisions: Work with architects, planners, engineers, contractors, and municipal staff. Clarify next steps, follow up on commitments, and help resolve outstanding issues.
- Keep projects on track: Maintain schedules, monitor deliverables and approval conditions, and bring forward delays, risks, and decisions requiring attention.
- Stay close to the numbers: Support development budgets, cash-flow forecasts, invoice reviews, and cost tracking. Identify potential variances early.
- Support each stage: Coordinate due diligence, consultant procurement, construction handover information, and project closeout requirements.
- Make information useful: Prepare clear project updates, presentations, and briefing materials, supported by accurate and organized records.
What you bring
- A degree in Engineering, Architecture, or Urban Planning.
- Three (3) or more years of experience in a similar real estate development role.
- Familiarity with Canadian municipal planning and development approval processes.
- A working understanding of development budgets, project schedules, and consultant scopes.
- Confidence interpreting architectural drawings, planning documents, and technical reports.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel. Experience with scheduling or project management software is an asset.
How you work
Our Real Estate team is entrepreneurial, collaborative, and disciplined. We value initiative, sound judgment, and people who take ownership and follow through.
You’re organized, detail oriented, and proactive. You can balance competing deadlines, adapt when priorities shift, and find practical ways to keep work moving.
You build productive relationships and bring a down-to-earth approach to working with others. You’re comfortable holding people accountable to commitments while maintaining trust and respect. You handle sensitive information with discretion, know when to act independently and when to seek direction, and take responsibility for seeing your work through.
Westerkirk Capital Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities to apply. Westerkirk Capital Inc. will accommodate the needs of applicants with disabilities throughout all stages of the selection process. If you need accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise your Human Resources representative. Information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.
