Do you have a passion for property management and influencing company culture? If so, we want you to join our team!   
Are you a Residential Property Manager and a great communicator with a passion for people and business?   If so, an exciting opportunity has become available to join the high performing Sodexo Property Management team as one of our Residential or FIFO Property Managers.

We are offering this role on either a FIFO roster of Monday to Friday OR as a residentially based role in Wickham. 

Take your Property Management skills to the next level, managing a unique remotely located portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to play an important role in the delivery of one of Australia’s largest property management contracts. The portfolio of properties is for a single client, an Australian Mining giant!

As part of the regionally based Property Management team, you are guided in contract delivery, organisational processes, and compliance by your Housing Manager. Our regionally based teams are constantly supported by a Perth based team including Regional General Manager, Trust Account Manager and Property Support Officer. You will bring your gun Property Management skills and confidence to the role, ensuring best practice and compliance is adhered to through the adoption of your industry knowledge and experience. You will learn about the unique nature of a single sophisticated client portfolio and integrated facility management contract.

Our property team are supportive and encouraging, hardworking and results oriented. We strive for continuous improvement, finding innovative and efficient ways to best serve our client and customers, and working with our peers to deliver outstanding service and results.

Role’s specifics:

All typical property management duties and responsibilities. Such as but not limited to:

• Manage housing applications, assessments, and reviews
• Leasing, ingoing, and vacating tenancy procedures
• Routine inspections and PCR’s
• Property maintenance management
• Bonds and tenant damage cost recovery
• No trust accounting, no end of month, and no weekend home opens.

Relocation Assistance:
To make the relocation process a little easier, we offer 3 financial components in addition to your salary and superannuation:

• Long Term Retention Bonus – $15,000 (subject to Company policy)
• Relocation Assistance – $6,000 (subject to Company policy)
• Regional Living Allowance – $12,000 (per annum)

Who are we looking for?   
To be successful in this role you will ideally have at least 3 years’ experience working in Residential Property Management. You will hold DMIRS Certificate of Registration as a Property Manager or Real Estate and Business Sales Representative registration.   
You will have experience managing your own work schedule, managing competing priorities and working under pressure. You pride yourself on attention to detail, ensuring documents are completed accurately, processes are followed, and accurate client, lease property and tenant records are kept. Advanced computing skills, with the ability to learn new property systems is important to hit the ground running.

Your role will be to provide high-level administrative and strategic support our to Chief Development Officer & Head of Accor Apartments & Realty and the broader development team.  Naturally proactive, you will ensure seamless coordination and execution of their daily activities. As a trusted partner, you will be managing schedules, communications, and supporting on projects to optimize the executive's effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities:

Administration:

• Manage the Chief Development Officer & Head of Accor Apartments & Realty’s calendar and travel arrangements, ensuring efficiency across time zones
• Prepare agendas, take minutes, and organize meetings and conferences
• Maintain an efficient e-filing system and handle general office tasks
• Support the coordination of team projects and events

Communication:

• Manage calls, emails, and inquiries, acting as the Chief Development Officer & Head of Accor Apartments & Realty’s first point of contact
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Prepare and send communications to properties and business units
• Ensure timely follow-up on action items

Financial Administration:

• Process invoices and expense claims (using Concur)
• Liaise with the finance team and other internal departments with regard to payments, recharging, approvals or enquiries

You will be leading the development of renewable projects, including solar, wind, battery storage projects and hydrogen opportunities that will need your stewardship through the development life cycle to financial close.

The role is based in Melbourne or Sydney – with site visits required periodically to: our development sites, stakeholders and communities. Our current portfolio consists of a mixture of greenfield through to late-stage assets, and with your help, we’ll be growing the pipeline to feed more projects into the construction phase.

Just as important as what you achieve in this role, is how you perform the role. We’ll need you to be an engaged team member, who can cross pollenate your development expertise into an investment world. Be ready for a dynamic work environment, with a start-up mindset. You’ll be encouraged and supported to be bold in your thinking and leadership, whilst being a helpful colleague to those around you.

Responsibilities

• Project Development from land owner liaison, development approvals, grid connection, EPC procurement, PPAs etc. Treat the projects as if they are your own.
• Assist the wider Investment Team through asset growth opportunities as required, including bringing your contributions and knowledge into project evaluations, acquisition bids, transaction and negotiation processes, due diligence work and supporting Investment Directors through internal approval processes.
• Provide leadership in developing sound relationships with relevant stakeholders including: landholders, community, Traditional Owners, regulators and policy makers.
• Manage project teams of multidisciplinary internal and external experts, including technical, planning, legal, grid, environmental and engineering advisors.
• Selecting advisors, consultants, OEMs and construction contractors (including EPC contractors), running procurement process and contract negotiations through to financial close.
• Take the lead role for negotiation of high value contracts including project construction, equipment supply and transmission connection agreements.
• Manage the grid connection process, working closely with NSPs and grid consultants, to navigate the complexity of the technical, regulatory and commercial connection landscape.
• Manage the delivery of development works within allocated budgets in a timely, efficient and effective manner.
• Development of project execution plans including timelines, costs, risk assessments, communication of project financials and progress reports in a consistent manner across the assigned projects.
• Development of required inputs for management papers, board papers and commercial negotiations as required.
• Prepare and manage budgets for Capex and Opex, project schedules, and technical inputs into financial models, supporting overall project business case development.
• Support our fundraising efforts, including meeting with prospective investors, promoting the Octopus profile, and supporting our fund managers with development expertise as required.
• Support ongoing profile-raising activities – networking with industry participants and at times engaging with energy policymakers to influence energy policy.