REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
FOR
ECONOMIC ADVISOR SERVICES FOR AN ANTI-
DISPLACEMENT STUDY

https://thejcra.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Anti-Displacement-Economic-Advisor-Services-RFP-August-2026.pdf

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR CONSTRUCTION ADVISOR SERVICES

https://thejcra.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Construction-Advisor-Services-RFP-August-2026.pdf

Municipal Liaison/Policy Advisor 

Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) 

Employment Type: Unclassified 

Schedule: Full-Time 

Location: Jersey City, NJ (on-site) 

Salary: Starting salary range $70,000-$85,000, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Comprehensive benefits package including pension, medical, dental, prescription, FSA, life insurance, and more. 

Deadline: Resumes should be submitted no later than September 18, 2026 

About the Role 

The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (JCRA) is an autonomous agency established by the City of Jersey City (City) pursuant to the Local Housing and Redevelopment Law. The JCRA is responsible for overseeing and executing significant and complex redevelopment projects in the City, one of the most active development markets in the New York metropolitan region. The JCRA manages a large portfolio of redevelopment projects in designated redevelopment areas within the City, negotiates redevelopment agreements and related agreements, and has the responsibility to ensure that stakeholders deliver on the obligations and community benefits in these agreements. The JCRA is at the center of the City’s most consequential projects — including Bayfront, Canal Crossing, and Holland Gardens. 

The JCRA is actively recruiting for a Municipal Liaison/Policy Advisor (“Advisor”) who will serve as an advisor to the JCRA and work with the JCRA and the City in furtherance of redevelopment projects, economic development initiatives, and related activities throughout the City.  

The Advisor will have a critical and intensive role in helping the JCRA work with the City to effectuate redevelopment projects from inception to completion of construction. Working closely with the JCRA Executive Director, the Deputy Mayor for Housing & Economic Development, the Director of the Housing, Economic Development and Commerce Department (HEDC), JCRA General Counsel, City Corporation Counsel and various City departments, the Advisor will support the policy initiatives, redevelopment projects, and strategic decision-making needed to advance redevelopment projects.  

What We’re Looking For 

The ideal candidate will have exceptional analytical and writing skills with strong attention to detail, be highly organized, and be motivated by the public mission of the JCRA. This is a high-exposure, fast-paced role that blends project management, policy analysis, and strategic support. The Advisor will need to be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders to advance redevelopment projects.  

JCRA is open to a wide range of candidates with different backgrounds, with precise title and compensation set depending on experience and qualifications.  

Key Responsibilities 

Project & Initiative Management 

• Track and help drive progress across the JCRA’s portfolio of redevelopment projects ensuring deadlines, deliverables, and project plans stay on schedule. 

• Coordinate across the JCRA, City, and outside partners to move complex, multi-stakeholder workstreams forward. 

• Build and maintain trackers, and status reporting; flag risks early and propose solutions. 

Policy Analysis & Advising 

• Assist in research and drafting clear, well-reasoned policy memoranda on housing, redevelopment, and economic development issues including memos and briefing materials.  

• Assist in analyzing specific policy issues, synthesizing law, data, best practices from peer cities, and stakeholder input. 

• Help the JCRA to implement policy goals. 

Strategic & Executive Support 

• Prepare speeches, talking points, remarks, presentations, and correspondence for JCRA and City leadership. 

• Build meeting agendas, briefing books, and read-aheads; attend meetings, capture decisions and follow-ups; and drive them to completion. 

• Liaise with a wide range of governmental and non-governmental actors.  

• Serve as a reliable, discreet, and proactive right hand on a wide range of time-sensitive priorities as they arise. 

Qualifications 

JCRA is looking for someone intelligent, resourceful, and genuinely excited about redevelopment, housing and economic development policy. Specific requirements include: 

• Education: A bachelor’s degree is required. An advanced degree — J.D., MPP, MPA, MUP, MCRP, or similar — is welcome but not required, and recent graduates are encouraged to apply. 

• Writing: Exceptional oral and written communication skills.  

• Analysis: Strong analytical and research skills, with the judgment to distill complex issues into clear recommendations. 

• Project management: Highly organized and able to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines at once without dropping details. 

• Temperament: Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-stakes political and governmental environment; adaptable, low-ego, and discreet with sensitive information. 

Preferred Experience 

The following are valued but not required: 

• Familiarity with New Jersey redevelopment, housing, and/or land use policy, or with urban policy and planning more broadly. 

• Prior experience in government, a policy organization, a campaign, a legislative office, or a mission-driven redevelopment, housing, or economic development organization. 

• Coursework or experience in public policy, urban planning, law, real estate, or economics. 

• Comfort working with data and translating it into clear narrative and visuals. 

Compensation & Level 

The starting salary range for this position is $70,000-$85,000, commensurate with experience. The role may be filled at the Associate or Senior Associate level depending on the selected candidate’s background, with title and salary set accordingly. The JCRA offers a competitive benefits package. 

How to Apply 

To apply, please submit a resume via email to:  

Christopher Fiore, Acting Executive Director 

Jersey City Redevelopment Agency 

fiorec@jcnj.org 

w/copy to: 

Shoshana Schiff, General Counsel for the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency 

McManimon, Scotland & Baumann 

sschiff@msbnj.com 

Local community groups interested in use of the Loews Jersey Theatre may direct inquiries to loews@jcnj.org.

THE JERSEY CITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING SCHEDULE

            Please take notice that on December 16, 2025, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency (“Agency”) adopted their annual meeting schedule to establish its regular meeting dates from February 2026 through January 2027. This notice is provided in accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, Chapter 231, P.L. 1975, and N.J.A.C. 5:39-1, et seq.

The regular meetings of the Agency shall be held in the Explorer Middle School located at 180 Ninth Street, Jersey City, New Jersey on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted. The meeting dates for the 2026 calendar year and the beginning of 2027 are as follow:

February 17, 2026

March 17, 2026

April 21, 2026

May 19, 2026

June 16, 2026

July 21, 2026

August 18, 2026

September 15, 2026

October 20, 2026

Monday, November 16, 2026

December 15, 2026 (Meeting begins at 5:00 p.m.)

January 19, 2027

Formal action may be taken at all meetings.

Pursuant to P.L. 2025, c.72 (C.35:3-1 et al.), effective March 1, 2026, all legal notices of the Agency shall be published on the Agency’s official internet website, which shall be accessible and available to the public free of charge, a direct hyperlink to legal notices shall be conspicuously placed on the website’s homepage, and each legal notice shall remain publicly accessible for at least one (1) week, or for such longer period as may be required by law.

The Agency shall maintain an internet archive of all legal notices that are no longer displayed on the Agency’s official internet website, which archive shall be retained for at least (1) year.

A certified copy of this Resolution shall be: i) posted within seven (7) days after the date of adoption in the offices of the Agency located at 4 Jackson Square, Jersey City, New Jersey, and the offices of the City of Jersey City located at 280 Grove Street, Jersey City, New Jersey; ii) published on the Agency’s official internet website; and iii) filed with the Clerk of the City of Jersey City.

Jesamil Lozano, Assistant to the Executive Director & Secretary to the Board