Community Development Investment Director
Posted Aug 26, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Walk me through how you've built relationships with low income housing tax credit developers, both for-profit and nonprofit. Where did your best deals come from?
What they are checking: Whether they have a real sourcing network in the LIHTC world or would be starting cold with developers.
Tell me about a deal you presented to a loan committee that got pushback. What were the concerns and how did you handle them?
What they are checking: Whether they can defend a recommendation with facts while taking real risk concerns seriously.
Tell me about a deal that nearly fell apart before closing. What happened and how did you get it done?
What they are checking: Whether they can coordinate counsel, syndicators and developers under deadline pressure to reach closing.
What would you do
You're monitoring your portfolio and a property's occupancy drops and it starts running negative cash flow. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they act early on asset management problems before they turn into credit losses or compliance failures.
How do you set up a repeatable process to uncover new investment opportunities across all of the bank's markets, not just Chicago?
What they are checking: Whether they can build a sourcing pipeline across a multi-state footprint instead of relying on a few contacts.
A developer you value asks you to loosen a term the bank's policy requires. How do you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they protect the bank's risk appetite while keeping a long-term relationship intact.
About the work
How do you size up a developer before you commit to an investment with them?
What they are checking: Whether they weigh sponsor track record, balance sheet and guarantees, since a weak sponsor sinks an otherwise fine deal.
Explain how a LIHTC equity investment is priced, and what moves the price per credit up or down.
What they are checking: Whether they understand credit pricing, CRA demand and timing well enough to win deals without overpaying.
How is investing in a historic tax credit deal different from a LIHTC deal, especially around recapture risk and timing?
What they are checking: Whether they know the specific structure and risks of historic credits rather than treating them like housing credits.
What key items do you look for in an underwriting package for a tax credit investment, and what would make you stop a deal?
What they are checking: Whether they know where these deals go wrong, like construction risk, operating reserves and compliance period exposure.
How do these investments connect to the bank's Community Reinvestment Act goals, and how does that affect which deals you pursue?
What they are checking: Whether they see the CRA purpose behind the business and can balance community impact with return.
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