Assistant Residence Manager

Overview:Key Objectives of the RoleYugo is the trusted name for student housing, globally.
Every day we connect young people to opportunities and students to amazing spaces.
Here at Yugo, we like to do things differently.
It's about people, planet, and passion.Our Assistant Residence Managers are part of a team of awesome Yugoers across the globe, who will support you to ensure we are consistent in the service we provide to our students.
#Futureshapers who want to positively influence and shape the lives of others students and Yugoers.Ensuring that we deliver the best possible experience for our students supporting them to live their best life while driving occupancy in our spaces.
This role requires a hands-on approach to work, ensuring we deliver cost-effective facilities and maintenance services.While being responsible when the Residence Manager is not on the property, ensuring all aspects of the residence continue running smoothly.Key ResponsibilitiesSupport Managing our SpacesSupport the management of our spaces ensuring the smooth running of the operational calendar and student lifecycle from arrival, departure, and summer turnaround.Use your upbeat, open-minded and outgoing personality to lead, mentor and guide our junior team members.Overseeing the regular health safety inspections ensuring students and Yugoers remain safe, reviewing hazards and risks and ensuring safe working practices are followed.Manage incident response in the absence of the Resident Manager ensuring high standards of overall property presentation through inspections, working with the facilities team to ensure maintenance-related issues are resolved.Ensure all administration duties are completed, including the processing of bookings, check in/out, early leavers, no shows, debt chasing, raising and receipting of purchase orders, student payment plans and room moves, arrears issues and any University nominations agreements.Support the sales cycle and deliver on Income TargetsContribute to achieving all sales targets to ensure occupancy targets are met or exceeded.Drive sales conversions through responsive, proactive follow-up to queries and excellent customer service; own the arrears management process, ensuring team members are focused on reducing debt to a minimum.Support in delivery of all KPIs of that space, including the delivery of income targets in accordance with sales process and standards; regularly monitor performance and report any issues to the residence manager.Maintain and develop relationships with key players at the local universities, education organizations and any other key stakeholders in order to build stronger referral networks and potentially secure future business.Key Performance Indicators – Revenue20% - NOI target Monthly, YTD, against budget15% - GOI target Monthly, YTD, against budget15% - Debt target Monthly, YTD, against budgetDrive Student ExperienceBe Real.
Take pride in what you do and own it.
Ensure that our students live their best life, so that we exceed their expectations and they re-book or refer us to others.Manage 'the good' and turn around the 'not so good' - meaning handle complaints and offer excellent student experience.Lead engagement activities with our students; monitor their feedback and deliver action plans and recommendations to ensure their best experience.Be True.
Acting responsibly towards others and the planet.
Making sure to deliver on our three Pillars to ensure our students live their best life:YugoEco.
Represents our total commitment to creating a better world for all and a sustainable environment for our students and teams.Education around life and how to prepare them for the professional world.
We commit to educate ourselves on climate change, we can only make a REAL difference together.YuGrow.
Addressing our students' holistic needs.
We commit to improve our student's safety, physical and emotional comfort and take tangible action to make a difference in the world.Support our Team of YugoersSupport the residence manager in leading the junior team members and assist with recruitment and development activities.Ensure that boundaries are there to be challenged and encourage a bias for action attitude to the rest of the team.Support creating a great work environment that encourages participation and teamwork as well as follow up and clarify objectives of the team, aligned to the business plan and the delivery of KPIs.Support with key initiatives from support functions including Sales, Marketing, Data and Analytics, Systems, HR and Finance.Key Performance Indicators – PeopleAttritionHRIS – monthlyLess than 3% of new employees leaving within 90 days10% - Engagement90% participation rate in annual engagement survey per teamSurvey score from Mercer – annual15% - Performance Reviews Completion – annuallyHRIS – annuallyWhat else?This job description serves as a guideline; this list of responsibilities is not intended to be exhaustive and other requests commensurate with the role may be made of you from time to time.
This role also requires a degree of flexibility in terms of days and hours worked.There may be occasional weekend and evening work, particularly during busy periods.Qualifications:Key Skills CapabilitiesAble to ensure students have the best experience and confident in dealing with a range of support requirements and issues.
With great communication skills in both written and oral English.Proactive and organized– Have a bias for action, anticipates, and responds timely to students and fellow Yugoers needs.Managing resources – Supervise, coordinate and manage internal and external resources to accomplish goals.Interpersonal skills – Drives sales experience and has a great ability to negotiate.Administrative Skills – Computer literate with strong application of Microsoft programs Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.Experience and KnowledgeEssential:5 Years of supervising a team of people preferably in front office, PBSA or hospitality fields.Great sales and negotiation skills being able to develop and track sales and marketing campaigns.Operations experience, being able to oversee the day-to-day operations of a team and deal with suppliers and third-party companies.Resilience and adaptability, as well as a great cultural diversity awareness.Qualification and/or willingness to undertake training for Carbon Literacy.Desirable:Experience managing teams or change.Previous experience in CRM and Reservations software.Financial awareness, have managed and understand PL and Budgets.The Yugo team is a force for good; our mission is to harness this passion to deliver an extraordinary living experience that supports the transition to and from student life.
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