Job Type:

• Full-time, Permanent
• Location: Haymarket, Sydney NSW
• Remuneration: Base salary starting from $107,404.93 + Superannuation + NFP Salary Packaging

Who are Bridge Housing and HomeGround Real Estate?

Bridge is an award-wining Community Housing Provider (Tier 1 NSW) who provide safe, secure and affordable homes to people on very low to moderate incomes. We aim to provide our tenants with stability and support. We home over 5,000 residents across Sydney CBD and surroundings. HomeGround Real Estate is a social enterprise of Bridge that’s changing the real estate game through the provision of ethical property management services. HomeGround’s profits are reinvested into providing more housing and services for people struggling to afford a home.

At Bridge, we value integrity, innovation and inclusion and throughout those values its pivotal to every one of our employees that we care about the work we do, our tenants and their safety and wellbeing.

The Role

As the Leasehold Coordinator, you will be responsible for managing Bridge Housing’s leasehold portfolio, including negotiating leases, handling tenancy issues, and ensuring compliance with the Residential Tenancy Act (RTA).

This role reports directly into the Manager, HomeGround Real Estate and works collaboratively with the housing management team and acts as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders to ensure effective communication and smooth operations in all aspects of leasing and property management.

What will a day as a Leasehold Coordinator look like?

• Visiting properties and ensuring properties meet the RTA standards through inspections and condition reports.
• Maintaining accurate records of available properties in relevant IT systems
• Developing and maintaining relationships with real estate agents and landlords
• Effectively managing financial targets, including negotiating rental rates, renewals, and rent increase requests
• Providing accurate reports regarding financial and subsidy targets
• Managing repairs and maintenance issues, ensuring timely completion
• Overseeing the vacant and hand-back processes, including compensation and negotiations where required
• Preparing for and attending NCAT proceedings
• Promoting Bridge Housing and break down barriers to leasing in the social housing sector

Who are we looking for?

• A current NSW Driver’s Licence
• 3-5 years' experience in property management or a related field
• Extensive knowledge of the Residential Tenancies Act (2010)
• Understanding of the legal framework for social housing landlords/tenants
• Demonstrated experience handling NCAT proceedings
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and Word) and real estate software
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management abilities
• A relevant tertiary qualification in a related field (e.g Property) is a plus!

Why join us?

We are a four-time award winner of Best Workplace; we have achieved this title as a result of our fantastic workplace culture, which results from all our employees living the organisation’s values (Integrity, Innovation and Inclusion) and Bridge Housing cares about its employees, their wellbeing and their professional development.

To support employee wellbeing and professional development, we offer:

• Study assistance and study leave
• Training and development from internal and external providers
• Team building
• Monthly massages and reflexology
• Flexible work arrangements
• Competitive, above award salary (starting base of $107,404 per annum + super)
• Salary packaging options up to $15,900 per annum
• 4 weeks annual leave AND
• Over 12 days additional days of leave per year AND
• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year AND
• Day off for your birthday!

APPLY NOW! By uploading a resume and cover letter through our portal. Don’t forget! We want to see in your cover letter, why you want to work for us and how your values align.

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We will be reviewing and assessing applications on merit as they are received and consequently the closing date may be subject to change without notice.

Good news! We are establishing a Talent Pool from this recruitment process. If you are currently unavailable or the exact opportunity does not currently suit you, feel free to submit your application to be considered for suitable applications in the future.