We are the Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. – providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.
How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with supportive people, friendly people and welcoming people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.
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So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 195,000 homes, manage £4 billion of assets and teach 75,000 children to swim each week.More about your role
As Lettings Negotiator at Places for People, your duties will be to manage the allocations process. You will respond appropriately to applications ensuring that robust affordability checks and verification interviews are carried out with all applicants.
You will ensure all applicants are kept up to date during the process, this will involve processing rejections and working with the Lettings and Marketing Managers to arrange viewings and sign ups. You will be responsible for advertising properties and liaising with Local Authorities to ensure that our nomination agreements are met.
For more information please download our job profile available on our website.
Please note: Although this role is an Agile role, travel to our Leeds office maybe requested. This is a Fixed Term position for 12 months
More about you
To be successful in this role you will have previous experience working within a fast paced busy office environment, working to deadlines. You will be a confident user of Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Word and Excel. You will also possess knowledge of web based lettings applications.
The ideal candidate would have previous experience working within the housing sector; this could be either private rentals or social housing.
Understanding and knowledge of marketing techniques to respond to different customer bases, property types and varying property markets would be highly beneficial
The benefits
Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that's why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.
Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership – to a wealth of extra perks including interest-free loans for colleagues, discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.
What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions please call the recruitment team on 01772 666555.
Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.
If you are using a mobile device such as an iPad then ensure your CV is stored in the cloud, we currently support Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox.
