Property Manager

Property Manager – Part Time
Salary: £29,486
Type: Permanent, Part time (30 hours per week) Monday to Friday
Location: Oxford office based daily – working across multiple sites, with occasional travel to different sites in and around Oxford

About us

We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis. 

About the role

We’re searching for a Property Manager to join our friendly and hard-working team at A2Dominion. This role will be responsible for delivering excellent property management service within Specialist Housing (Keyworker Sector) including multi-occupancy & self-contained dwellings and carry out landlord obligations within regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities:

• To participate in the allocation of rented accommodation to applicants including issuing tenancy paperwork, collection of payments, management of void units to establish an efficient and effective turnaround of properties minimising rental loss
• To partake in the end of tenancy process, including processing notices to vacate, management to end rental accounts, arranging rent refunds as appropriate, inspect properties and release of deposits
• Be the point of contact for our customers to resolve and investigate complaints and issues raised by residents and provide advice and guidance
• To carry out and monitor regular estate and property inspections, ensure accurate records are maintained and actions are taken to deal with issues
• Monitor contractor performance at the schemes and feedback to stakeholders regarding any performance deficiencies experienced from contractors
• Be empowered to deliver residential property management duties ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction at all times (e.g. manage customer disputes and anti-social behaviour)
• Be responsible for resolving customer queries promptly, including liaison with the A2Dominion Operational Teams, customers, partnering Trusts as required
• Encourage, support and, where appropriate, proactively encourage and (if required) enforce occupants of buildings towards good housekeeping and fire safety practices

More about you

For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C)
• Full UK Driving License and access to a vehicle
• Previous experience of working in property management is essential
• Previous experience of delivering front line customer service in a front facing role
• Proven experience of problem solving for residents and understanding their needs
• Good level of IT Knowledge including Outlook, Word and Excel, and an ability to compile and write reports
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Has or willing to study towards professional membership/qualification (CIH/IRPM/CMI or equivalent)

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.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Resourcing Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk

A2Dominion Group 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 Group, 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.

Meeting the role requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements.  If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.