Location: Leeds
Salary: £23,100 – £24,500
Role: Permanent
Overview:
We are currently seeking a Lettings Coordinator who demonstrates an open, engaging, and warm personality. As a key member of our team, you should have exceptional interpersonal skills and a genuine passion for working in an environment that constantly strives to provide the ultimate resident experience. Effective communication, diligence, and excellent organisational abilities are essential attributes for this role.
Key responsibilities:
- Meeting and greeting customers;
- Assisting customers with their enquiries face to face or over the phone;
- Explaining our signing procedures/requirements to potential tenants;
- Setting up the tenant application process and gathering all the relevant documentation required;
- Assembling tenancy papers/contracts and ensuring all relevant details are entered correctly (references, payment plans, specific requirements, etc.);
- Accepting holding fees & preparing associated documents;
- Chasing outstanding documentation & payments as and when required and ensuring all documentation and payments received are recorded correctly on our software ahead of the deadline;
- Tracking tenants right to rent status throughout their tenancy and where needed, following up with tenants for their updated papers;
- Managing keys & their locations in our locked boxes and arranging for keys to be cut/fobs to be reset required;
- Communicating with tenants on end of tenancy costings;
- Setting up inventories through Hive & conducting mid-term inspections;
- Using Reapit to input & store tenants details, calendar management, matching leads with properties, creating active tenancies, putting in payment plans, renewing & archiving tenancies;
- Registering deposits using the deposit register and sending out the deposit T&Cs and PRS;
- Communication with tenants via letter, email and phone;
- Setting up & delivering Section 21 notices;
- Providing improvement feedback to managers throughout the company;
- Setting up parking spaces agreements and arranging ticketing for illegally parked cars;
- Supporting and actively participating in receptionist & customer service reps’ tasks when needed;
- Conducting move out inspections, taking pictures and filling out the relevant paperwork whilst reporting back to the main office with urgent matter (cleaning, removal, maintenance) and also conducting inspections when complaints are received, for example suspicion of smoking, noise, pets;
- Handing out move in/out packs & keys and checking all relevant documentation in on file;
- Any other administrative tasks; and
- Working to weekly and monthly targets.
Required skills and qualifications:
- Minimum GCSE grades C or above in math and English or equivalent.
- Good working knowledge of Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
- Full clean driving license.
- Previous customer service experience.
Desirable:
- Driving license
- Multilingual abilities
- Previous reception and administrative experience is highly valued