Property Negotiator

Lewisham

28 Per Hour

Job Role

Actively market the various private sector accommodation procurement initiatives to landlords,letting agents, managed accommodation providers, portfolio landlords and developers using all available tools and methods of communication to meet individual, team and service procurement targets.

Organise and/or participate in key stakeholder meetings, like Landlords Day, landlord exhibitions, property auctions and other fora.

Work with private sector landlords, letting agents, managing agents and other internal and external partners to identify, develop and implement a range of new initiatives to increase the supply of good quality accommodation within the private rented sector for households in housing need.

Develop and maintain cutting edge advertising and marketing promotional materials for all private rented sector initiatives, continually assessing their impact and reviewing as necessary.

Signpost inexperienced landlords to existing support services, like the National Landlords Association and the London Landlords Accreditation Scheme.

Deliver a one stop, high quality customer focused service to ensure all telephone calls, e-mails, letters and complaints from customers, landlords, lettings agents, elected members, MPs or other key stakeholders are answered promptly and fully to the highest possible standard within corporate guidelines or as instructed by the service manager.

Work with landlords, agents and other accommodation providers to ensure they are aware of all of their contractual responsibilities including but not limited to repairs, voids, tenancy management, insured risks, repairs in default etc.

Communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders and partners to deliver an excellent customer focused service.

Working with the Accommodation Supply Manager, contribute to the development of an annual accommodation procurement plan, liaising closely with staff across Housing Services and other Council departments like Children and Young People (CYP) and Adult Social Care (ASC) regarding current and projected demand for accommodation types, areas and sizes to meet housing need,monitoring and reporting mweekly/monthly on individual progress against locally and corporately set targets.

The successful candidate must have worked in a target based role previously. Property negotiator role preferred.

The successful candidate must have a history of discharging duty.