Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Oxford (on-site daily)
DBS: Enhanced
About Us
At A2Dominion, we believe in providing homes that people love to live in. With social housing roots stretching back eight decades and over 38,000 properties under our management across London and Southern England, we're proud to offer a variety of housing options and commutes to creating vibrant, sustainable communities that enhance the lives of our residents.
As a proud member of the G15, a coalition of leading housing associations, we play an active role in tackling the housing crisis. Now, we're looking for a passionate and driven individual to join our team and help us make an even bigger impact.
Role Overview
Are you a people person with a passion for property management? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where every day brings a new challenge? If so, we have the perfect role for you!
We're looking for an Assistant Property Manager to join our Specialist Housing - Student & Keyworker team. You'll play a vital role in ensuring our residents receive exceptional service, helping them feel at home while ensuring our properties are well-managed and compliant. From handling tenancy paperwork to liaising with contractors.
Key Responsibilities
To participate in the accommodation allocation process including issuing of all tenancy paperwork, dealing with end of tenancy paperwork and notices, ensuring vacant properties are ready to let and collection of advance payments
To be responsible for daily cover for handling reception duties, including greeting visitors, answering phone calls, managing appointments, and providing general administrative support
Carry out day-to-day administrative duties including being the point of contact for our customers and partner organisations, issuing letters and notices, producing invoices, and responding to enquiries
To assist the Property Managers with low level arrears, maximising the Groups income
Report repairs where required and escalate issues/actions required where necessary.
Assist the Area Manager in monitoring contractor performance. Liaise with contractors and customers on planned inspection & testing visits including updating and maintaining records
To assist the Property Managers to carry out and monitor regular estate and property inspections, ensure accurate records are maintained and actions are taken to deal with issues
Assist the Area Manager by monitoring expenditure against budget, monitoring use of stock and working with internal teams on service charge estimates and accounts
Assist the Property Manager to encourage and support occupants of buildings towards good housekeeping and fire safety practices
To assist Property Managers in resolving customer queries promptly, including liaison with the A2Dominion Operational Teams, customers, partnering Trusts as required
Maintain all relevant documentation to the required standards at both the organisation and premises level
To build relationships and work with both internal and external stakeholders of A2Dominion to support the customers
To attend and represent A2Dominion with support, at internal and external meetings and forums when required
Produce reports using standard templates to monitor performance and assist in ensuring tenancy management objectives are achieved
More About You
Educated to GSCE level (Grades A-C) in Math and English or equivalent
Previous experience of delivering front line customer service in a front facing role
Proven experience of problem solving for customers and understanding their needs, including vulnerable people
Ability to multi-task, who thrives in a fast-paced environment with excellent attention to detail
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
A good level of IT knowledge, including Outlook, Word and Excel
Whilst prior experience in housing isn't essential, it is highly desirable
For this role, it is essential to hold a full, clean UK driving licence
Choosing Us is Easy
As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
25 days' holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
Up to 8% contributory pension
Investment in your learning and development
In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to 300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion is a Disability Confident Employer, which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:
Actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
Provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
Offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
Be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
Make reasonable adjustments as required.
At A2Dominion, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds - men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
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