Community Assistant

4 weeks ago


Canterbury, United Kingdom CA Ventures Full time

We are recruiting for a Community Assistant (CA) to join our team and play a key role within our **Novel Student** accommodation in Canterbury. The CA is a position with the primary responsibility of building relationships with current and prospective residents of our Novel Student platform, and ensuring safety and security of all our residents.

Reporting into the Property Manager, the CA will ensure all customer service, sales, and health & safety goals for the building are met or exceeded. The CA is a natural people-person who understands the importance of customer service.

CA Ventures provides best-in-class experiences for student residents living in our communities. We do this by putting people first—both our residents and our employees. We believe in investing in our people through superb training and support, and opportunities for career advancement by growing throughout our portfolio.

**Your Mission**
- Promote a ‘residents first’ culture and ensure their expectations are met.
- Take responsibility for management of the office.
- Ensure that the customer service level is consistently high and the agreed service level agreement is followed.
- Assist with the sales and marketing of the residence, working with the central Marketing and Sales teams to ensure minimum 98% occupancy year-on-year.
- Address complaints and breaches of the residence code of conduct with residents and parents, gathering relevant evidence and preparing written outcomes. Escalate to the Property Manager where necessary.
- Manage and communicate room cleans and reactive maintenance works.
- Assist the Systems team with the management of the property management system, ensuring all data entered by the team is correct and viable.
- Provide out of hours support to the residence as required, to ensure that issues are escalated according to procedure.
- Deliver on customer satisfaction targets.
- Supervise on-site maintenance operations including planned preventative and reactive maintenance.
- Supervise housekeeping operations to ensure that the site always remains presentable.
- Implement and ensure that CAMS Standard Operating Procedures are adhered to by on-site staff and residents.
- Work with the central team and local teams to ensure that a variety of fulfilling and relevant events are carried out regularly.

**Your Track Record**
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to plan and prioritise
- Strong attention to detail
- Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Passionate about creating a customer-focused environment for residents
- Professional and friendly demeanour
- Flexible and adaptable
- Proactive nature and ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent customer relationship skills

**Your Style**
- Passionate to get the job done
- True team-player eager to help drive the growth of the business
- Self-motivated and continuously demonstrating the ability to adapt, develop and learn
- People person who thrives in a fast-paced environment

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £23,700.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Commission pay

Work Location: In person



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