Community Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

The Community Manager is the head, the heart, and the soul of their apartment community. It is their job to lead their staff, to take care of their residents, to maintain the property, and to earn a good return on the Company's investment.

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Personnel Management - hire, train, supervise, and counsel all on-site staff; evaluate performance; recommend wage rates, promotions, terminations; schedule work hours and vacations; maintain a safe, happy, and congenial workplace.
• Training - train each employee through on the job training and use of Company and external training programs to do their job to the best of their abilities.
• Marketing - market the property through leasing, resident retention, promotions, and advertising; set rents with the approval of the Vice President at the maximum level attainable. Initiate and follow up on Renewal Leases.
• Office administration - operate a professional rental office in accordance with Silver Property Management policies.
• Maintenance - inspect all buildings and grounds regularly; maintain the physical condition of the property; correct all deficiencies reported by residents quickly, courteously, and correctly through direction of on-site maintenance personnel and outside contractors; maintain an effective preventative maintenance program.
• Accounting - collect all rent and authorize disbursements; deposit rent the day it is received; enter rent collection date into the Onesite computer system; file required accounting reports in a timely and accurate manner; maintain payroll records; collect delinquent amounts. Cost control - purchase supplies and services in the most economical manner; conserve utilities; account for fixed assets.
• General - maintain a rapport with residents; ensure a peaceful, orderly, happy community.

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00am – 6:00 pm, or concurrent with on-site property hours. May be required to work weekends and/or extended hours outside of Monday through Friday 9:00am – 6:00pm

• Hold the professional designation of Certified Apartment Manager or Accredited Property Manager. All Community Managers who do not hold one of these designations should be actively working to earn them.
• Have completed high school or the equivalent. College education is preferred.
• Have at least two years’ practical experience in apartment management.