Corporate Counsel

We're currently seeking a Corporate Counsel will work directly with the General Counsel and assist with a broad range of legal duties including overseeing real estate, finance and/or corporate transactional matters, reviewing and managing corporate contracts, providing legal support across the company's multifamily portfolio and identifying, evaluating and mitigating risk on the company's behalf. Corporate Counsel partners closely with the General Counsel, Operations, Asset Management, IT and Risk Management to protect the company from legal, financial, and operational exposure.

Independence Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: IRT) is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates multifamily apartments. IRT currently manages over 36,000 apartment homes, 117 communities, in over 30 markets and 14 of the country's most desirable states. We're anticipating continued growth and opportunity over the next few years. IRT has a strong commitment to hiring the most talented industry professionals, which has resulted in record growth, making the Company one of the most respected and trusted within our industry.

Duties include but are not limited to:

Transactional:

• Draft, review, and negotiate purchase agreements and related documents in connection with the acquisition or disposition of multi-family assets.
• Plan and coordinate due diligence for real estate transactions.
• Assist with and/or oversee outside counsel in connection with the origination, assumption, payoff and/or defeasance of secured and unsecured corporate and/or property level financing.

Claims Management:

• Manage insurance claims and related pre-litigation matters.
• Assist Operations and Risk Management with claim-related and incident-related matters.
• Multifamily Leasing, Compliance and Operations:
• Review and ensure ongoing compliance with state landlord tenant laws, draft and update form residential lease agreement and addenda.
• Manage resident requests for reasonable accommodations/modifications, domestic violence related requests and similar inquiries.

Litigation Management:

• Manage employment, landlord tenant, insurance and contract related litigation.

Contract Management:

• Review, negotiate and manage property level and/or corporate contracts including vendor service agreements, non-disclosure agreements, marketing agreements, SAAS agreements, and similar miscellaneous contracts.
• Oversee contract compliance including vendor service agreements, credit agreements, cable contracts, electric vehicle agreements and waste management agreements.
• Administer the company's contract management system.

General/Corporate:

• Draft corporate policies and procedures and oversee compliance of those policies.
• Provide supervision to outside lawyers assisting the company and its subsidiaries with their specialized legal needs and many of the matters described above.
• Manage other real estate matters as needed, including easements, license agreements, zoning issues, condemnations and other issues related to IRT's multifamily portfolio.