Lettings Manager - Social Housing
Chippenham
Salary - £42,872 + £2,500 car allowance per annum (depending on skills and knowledge)
Permanent, full time (37 hours per week)

About us
Passionate about great places to live, our client develops a range of new homes – for rent, shared ownership, and sale – while also providing housing management, care and support, and commercial property services.
 
They increase the opportunities for people to thrive by giving them access to great homes and services to match. This supports the creation of strong and vibrant communities.
 
Our client make a difference to people’s lives – and this is something they want to continue doing, for more people, every day, and they have ambitious plans to simplify and modernise their organisation, to become a simply brilliant landlord.

About the role
They are currently looking for an Lettings Manager to be based at their office in Chippenham.

You will be a member of the Neighbourhoods Management Team and will have overall responsibility for letting new and existing rented general needs and older persons homes, with oversight on lettings managed within other teams.

You will work closely with Property Services to ensure properties are turned around in a timely manner; as well as Development to ensure the smooth transition of new homes into the business for letting.

You will be responsible for the day to day management, review and forecasting of the Lettings teams budget; and other financial processes while ensuring that security of data is maintained, especially sensitive personal data, in line with the Information Management policy and Data Protection legislation.

About you
It is essential that you have previous experience of letting homes, preferably social housing; and have experience of working in an environment that has a diverse range of customer needs, particularly vulnerable customers.

As well as excellent customer care skills, you will be an experienced line manager, with substantial knowledge and experience of line managing teams, including performance management responsibilities, and meeting targets in a service orientated environment.

You must also have the ability to analyse and interpret complex problems and generate and find innovative solutions to these, as well as the ability to interpret and use data from business systems to manage, report and improve performance.

Travel is required between their offices of Chippenham, Gloucester and Oxford, as well as external meetings, so a car for business use and clean driving licence are essential.

How to apply
If this sounds like the exciting new challenge you’ve been waiting for, and you’ve got the passion, the ideas and the energy, they’d love to hear from you.

Closing Date – 16 September 2019
Interview Date – 25 September 2019