COMMUNITY MGR (Canyon Country)

As the Community Manager, you are a team builder and leader who provides support, mentorship and direction to ensure high level of Employee and Resident Engagement.

You are responsible for meeting the Owner’s asset performance expectations within your assigned Community by achieving revenue growth, occupancy and reputation management goals. 

Customer Experience and Leadership:

• Creates and maintains a safe, respectful, and productive environment for all team members at the community.
• Provides leadership for the Community by setting a Service Excellence standard and inspiring the teams to achieve it.
• Oversees the day-to-day financial, sales, marketing, maintenance and operations of the Community.
• Efficiently handles resident requests and concerns.
• Focuses on identifying the challenges early and use it as an opportunity to develop the team and take corrective measures as necessary.
• Empowers employees to solve problems and achieve goals through immediate resolution by training the team on how to prevent the challenges in the future.
• Owns the employee experience, drives employee satisfaction and elevates team behaviors.
• Establishes a learning culture and maintains a strong connection of the community team to GHP.
• Provides reinforcing and developmental feedback to direct reports on a regular and timely manner.
• Performs comprehensive annual reviews of all direct reports, and ensures all staff reporting into your region are receiving adequate reviews. Creates personal goals for individuals.

Sales and Marketing:

• Monitors and drives rental activity including traffic, move-ins, move-outs, closing ratios and notices to ensure financial performance requirements for assigned Community are being met.
• Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of the competitive property markets and ensures Leasing Team is up to date on opportunities and areas of focus.
• Manages all Marketing activities within budgetary guidelines to maintain and exceed occupancy requirements.
• Develops and oversees an on-going resident retention program, including resident events.
• Creates an outreach and networking strategy to generate leads within the local market.

Financial Performance

• Maintains fiscal oversight and is responsible for YOY revenue growth, income maximization and expense control for the Community.
• Manages rent collection, through delinquency management and taking preventative steps to reduce evictions and write-offs.
• Proactively monitors Community performance and creates action plans to address opportunities and demonstrate positive trend.
• Assists with payables/receivables and other accounting activities, including accounting month-end.
• Collaborates with Corporate Collections team on collection efforts.
• Works closely with the Accounting team on month-end activities to ensure financials are accurate and accounting activities have been completed by the Community.

Operations

• Conducts daily walks to ensure compliance in all facets of the Community performance to ensure that the property consistently meets GHP standards, including curb appeal, cleanliness, asset preservation, state of repair, safety and security standards.
• Conducts weekly/monthly property walks with Regional Managers and Regional Maintenance Managers to ensure Community compliance with the GHP standards.
• Regularly audits property onsite files to ensure proper resident qualification and screening processes are being followed in accordance with company policy and procedure.
• Acts as final approval for resident Lease Agreement and escalates the case to the Corporate team if necessary.
• Manages compliance with Fair Housing laws and regulations through regular team communication and training.

PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• 1-3 years managing a resident apartment community of 200+ units experience as a Community Manager and/or Property Manager within a 150-200+ unit community with 1-year experience as Leasing Manager or similar sales and marketing role within Property Management.
• 1 year experience with financial budget development for the community
• 1-3 years’ experience using industry software such as Pop Card, Yardi or equivalent Property Management software, Resident Screening Software and intermediate level user of business applications such as MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• 2-3 years experience managing a team of 6 or more team members.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Frequently move/traverse, ascend/descend stairs in/around apartment homes and community
• Constantly positions self to bend, stoop, reach, lift
• Occasionally lift/move/carry up to 25lbs with/without assistance

**The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks will be assigned.

Salary Range: $66,560 - $67,000 DOE

Benefits: Fully paid medical insurance available to employees along with dental, vision. Other benefits include: flexible spending account, Life/AD&D insurance, pet insurance, Employee Assistance Program, TicketsAtWork. There is also free onsite parking.