• Mon to Fri - Flexible work options incl. site office/work from home days if desired
• Highly competitive salary with $15,900 tax-free each year
• Contemporary, welcoming organisation w/many long-term staff

about the opportunity

BHC Creating Liveable Communities is an independent, not-for-profit property developer, owner and manager of affordable and community housing. BHC's Vision is "Creating homes, empowering lives, enabling transformation" and Mission "to deliver our Vision by building and maintaining quality affordable homes for people in need and engaging with and supporting people to sustain their tenancies".  

If you are an experienced property manager, whose values and resilience align with our organisation’s, BHC will provide you with the opportunity learn about community housing and sustaining tenancies.

Due to parental leave within the team, we have a full time, fixed-term contract to late 2022 available for an experienced Property Manager with a strong background in the management of rental housing, including households with complex needs such as those living with a disability. 

While the role is initially fixed-term, due to strong growth plans for developing more affordable rental stock there exists a genuine opportunity for long-term employment.

As a modern organisation we offer staff the option to combine working from the office with working from home/site offices.

The office is located at 333 Ann Street in the CBD by Central Station, with a proportion of the week spent in the field. The majority of BHC's portfolio is located in the inner city and north Brisbane.

More about the Role & Our Team

Part of a team of 10 Property Managers and reporting to the Tenancy Services Managers, as a Property Manager you will be responsible for the day-to-day tenancy, property management and delivery of effective tenancy management practices for BHC directly managed properties. Our properties range from 3 bedroom through to studios and boarding rooms.

What sets our Property Managers apart is their community-minded focus and commitment to working with tenants to ensure that both BHC and our tenants benefit from a long-term tenancy through ensuring that tenancies are sustainable, well managed and compliant with all relevant regulations and requirements. As a property manager with BHC, you won't report to multiple owners and you can be assured that we are serious about the long-term investment in maintaining the standard of our properties.  We strive to balance providing a home for and potentially improving the wellbeing of lower income and vulnerable people, with the commerciality of working in a professional and sustainable business environment.

As a Property Manager with BHC, you are working within a tenancy team that includes Client Service/Allocations team members and a focused Community Development Team.

Why join our team?

At BHC there is a strong focus on a good working culture (including work-life balance, flexible work options, and paid COVID leave in addition to your sick leave) with many staff having worked in the organisation long-term.  As a mission-based organisation that provides housing for people on lower incomes, values-based people tend to be drawn to working with BHC. Whilst being entrepreneurial, there is a strong heart.

There are plenty of professional development opportunities (formal and informal), and a strong history of internal promotions and movement across teams. Longevity of tenure is for the same reason staff are attracted to the organisation – because they enjoy making a difference and are given autonomy and ownership.

Staff also have access to generous salary packaging benefits to increase take home pay including $15,900 of your salary tax-free every year, plus $2,650 tax-free that can be put towards holiday accommodation or meals/entertainment. 

BHC has a focus on supporting staff health and wellness including fortnightly massages and reflexology (outside of COVID times), a market-leading parental leave policy for both parents offering up to 14 weeks’ full pay in addition to government paid parental leave, and an EAP program for staff and their families. 

The office environment is modern (and the coffee/sparkling water tap great!) with a culture that reflects our core values of making a difference, working with integrity, supporting each other, working safely, our differences, being accountable and delivering quality, and celebrating achievements.

About You

You will be a responsive and experienced property manager, skilled in balancing the needs of your tenants with business sustainability (e.g. arrears management, vacancy days).

While your experience working with complex needs clients is what will set you apart, you will also be able to demonstrate:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively and sensitively communicate with a diverse range of client groups face to face, by telephone and in writing.
• Comprehensive property management skills.
• Confidence with the use of computers and proven ability to learn new software packages.
• Sound organisational skills with the ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple demands.
• The ability to effectively balance a community-minded outlook and the 'bigger picture' by assisting tenants to sustain their tenancies.
• The personal maturity necessary to work within the affordable housing industry, including strong emotional resilience and the desire to act as a positive role model.
• Possessing and maintaining a current drivers’ license is required as access to company vehicles is available.
• Skills around property inspections (considered favourably).

Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as received.

Please note a national police check (arranged and paid for by BHC) will be required.

Our company policy requires all new hires to show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or to have an approved medical exemption.

We are a 2022 Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant.