Asset Management Professional Certificate Program

Job Specific Certificate Opportunities

The Consortium for Housing and Asset Management (CHAM) recognizes that nonprofit asset management is difficult work, and requires managers to be particularly skilled and sophisticated. To support industry managers, CHAM developed a designation program, the Certified Housing Asset Manager™ (CHAM). Working in collaboration with the Institute of Real Estate Management Association (IREM), Enterprise Social Investment Corporation, National Equity Fund, and other major national partners, CHAM has developed a curriculum that trains and recognizes professional capacity and benefits both professionals and their organizations. In addition, CHAM sponsors an annual conference which focuses on cutting-edge asset management issues for the nonprofit owner. These resources are available to help nonprofit owners provide high-quality, sustainable affordable rental housing that is a true community asset.

Proficiency

Participants earning their professional designation will have the skills to:

• Evaluate performance of real estate assets and successfully intervene in problems affecting those assets;
• Fulfill the owner's mission and goals for the properties;
• Monitor and measure resident-engagement initiatives which affect the properties;
• Develop an asset management plan specific to their organization's goals and requirements that will assure the sustainability of its rental housing;
• Conduct sophisticated analysis of real estate assets and management costs; and
• Effectively interpret and manage data, human resources, and partnerships to maximize property assets.

Note: It is recommended that courses be taken in the prescribed order, however this is not required. Once the courses have been successfully completed, the final step toward completion of the certificate requirements is a comprehensive final examination.