Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate (FIRE) educates and inspires exceptional students, conducts world-class research, and engages with an unparalleled network of industry professionals to create places of lasting value. Through rigorous scholarship and multidisciplinary collaborations, FIRE strives to be the top real estate program in the country, doing so in a way that promotes Notre Dame’s mission to be a force for good in our nation and world.

FIRE is now looking for someone who has a love and commitment to creating places of lasting value for the church community locally, nationally, and around the globe!

The Church Properties Initiative (CPI), a project of the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate at the University of Notre Dame, conducts research, educates students, and convenes and equips leaders to activate land and buildings in service to the Church and the world. CPI is seeking a Program Manager to support external engagement and manage CPI’s portfolio of research and practice projects.

The Program Manager engages CPI’s core stakeholders as well as funders, benefactors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs by identifying key forums and networks; developing and executing a strategy for communicating CPI’s findings and publications across various media; managing student workers to help execute CPI’s operations; coordinating CPI’s quarterly diocesan real estate networking call; and collaborating to produce CPI’s continuing education offerings, conferences, and other events. The Program Manager also manages CPI’s portfolio of research and practice projects by identifying funding sources and supporting the preparation of grant applications, developing project timelines, coordinating project teams, administering CPI’s internal seed grant program, managing undergraduate research assistants, distributing calls for papers, and reviewing submissions for conference presentations.