Community Host

PMR are seeking enthusiastic Community Hosts to work with our client, a leading Build to Rent provider, as part of their on-site community team at their Flagship development in Reading. The Community Hosts are fundamental in creating a superb first and lastingimpression of our community for all residents and visitors.

The primary function of the community team is to deliver a responsive and outstanding customer service to our residents. Each day will be unique, requiring an ability to prioritise, multi-task, think creatively, take initiative and ownership, and employa diverse set of interpersonal and organisational skills. Dealing with residents can be a demanding role and does require a level of maturity, the ability to empathise and a strong sense of perspective. You will bring positive energy to each conversation,resolves issues quickly and effectively, and make everyone feel welcome and appreciated. It's about first impressions, so you'll take great pride in your presentation, and this will reflect in your front of house which you'll keep clean, smart and welcomingat all times.

Your objective will be to achieve resident retention goals by performing all activities related to customer service to all residents, providing resident satisfaction throughout the term of the lease to ensure resident lease renewals and referrals. You willalso be instrumental in handling enquiries, conducting leasing tours and leasing related paperwork.

**Responsibilities**:

- Deliver an exceptional experience to every person, beginning with an unmatched first impression and building rapport with other team members, visitors, investor, clients, and both prospective and current residents
- Management of complaints/problems/issues arising from Residents, ensuring that all complaints are dealt with quickly and efficiently. This requires strong and efficient communication skills, maturity, an abundance of common sense and the ability to staycalm in a crisis.
- All reported issues are recorded on our database. Every communication with a resident and action taken must be logged on our database and a copy of our log is presented to our clients on a monthly basis. This affords us an opportunity to demonstrate theextent to which we keep residents regularly informed of the process of resolving their issues and the speed with which we deal with them.
- Maintain and uphold a high standard for community check appeal by conducting routine inspections of all community amenities and common areas, and working with the service team or other teams to ensure that all areas are well-maintained
- Executes and assists with activities to support the community's leasing and lease renewal program.
- Executes and assists with activities to in relation to any community activities and events.
- Responds quickly and courteously to resident concerns and questions and takes prompt action to solve problems and/or document and convey resident or other requests to the appropriate individual.
- Follows established policies and procedures by monitoring and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, organisational standards, and operational processes related to area of responsibility and reporting violations or infractions to appropriateindividual.
- Follows health & safety procedures and policies in accordance with company, community, and departmental policies & procedures
- Identifies areas for improvement and offers suggestions and recommendations to optimise efficiency and productivity.
- Keeps abreast of current changes in technology, processes, and standards within the industry and area of responsibility by attending internal and external training classes, research and/or subscribing to the internet or other professional publications,or utilising other appropriate methods to obtain business and professional information, and applies knowledge and practices to area of responsibility
- Ability to keep sensitive information highly confidential at all times
- Day to Day concierge type services as required by the Development such as handling parcels, delivering post and other reasonable requests.