Acquisition Officer

6 days ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom Mears Full time

Annual salary: up to £30,000.00

**Acquisition Officer**

**Wakefield**

**£30,000 per annum + bonus**

**Permanent**

Mears provides temporary accommodation to asylum seekers whilst their claim is being assessed. In May 2021, Mears had over 19000 service users across five regions: Northwest, Yorkshire and Humber, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Mears work in partnership with central and local Government, registered providers, tenants, landlords and investors to find solutions to homelessness, provide more social and affordable housing and create specialist housing for people with care needs.

As an Acquisition officer on the sign off team, you will be meeting landlords and agents at properties around the region (Yorkshire & the North East) and carry out initial inspections to confirm suitability for the asylum contract,. You will also complete progress checks on the property to ensure works have commenced and provide target delivery dates, then you will attend the sign off appointment to officially sign the property off onto the scheme ensuring property meets all required standards.

**Key Responsibilities
** - Acquisition Officer
- Effective liaison and relationship building with landlords, agents, investors and other potential sources of property to maximise the property pipeline
- Ensure initial enquiries are accurately collated, distributed and answered
- Accurate reporting of existing and new acquisitions
- Meet performance outcomes and targets on volume of properties leased and average lease price to satisfy the scheme requirements
- Ensure good quality properties are acquired that meet the relevant standards
- Ensure timely completion of administrative tasks to ensure accurate property pipeline information is provided to the Head of Acquisitions
- Ensure all records and IT data on systems remains updated with accurate information to meet contractual requirements.
- Undertake ad-hoc projects and provide support and cover for colleagues and teams within Mears Housing Management
- Ensure full compliance with Mears’s code of conduct, contractual terms and group policies & procedures

**Qualifications & Requirements
- **Acquisition Officer
- Experience in property sales or lettings
- Excellent written and verbal communicating skills
- Excellent negotiation and organisational skills
- Experience in procuring social housing
- Full UK driving license
- Health & Safety regulations related to rented accommodation
- Knowledge and understanding of appropriate landlord, tenant, and housing law

**What We Can Offer
** - Acquisition Officer
- Individual and team bonuses
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work
- Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
- Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more.
- Company Vehicle and Fuel Card.
- Access to EAP which includes counselling sessions.
- Access to additional training such as mental health first aid/fire marshal training/ safeguarding level 2.

**As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS & BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.
Mears Group is a Disability Confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.



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