Marketing & Resident Experience Specialist - University Walk

Job Description

Job Description

Description

American Campus Communities is seeking a proactive Marketing and Resident Experience Specialist to maximize and drive revenue through strategic marketing and leasing efforts. This role balances marketing initiatives with comprehensive leasing responsibilities, including conducting tours, coordinating move-ins, and managing room assignments. You’ll amplify resident engagement and oversee community events - essential in creating a vibrant living environment to maintain high occupancy and retention rates.  You’ll be an integral part of creating an exceptional living experience for our residents.

 

• Maximize revenue and drive occupancy through marketing efforts, exceptional customer service, and leasing execution.
• Execute the leasing process for prospective residents, including appointments, leads, tours, maintaining show rooms, and completing prospect and future resident follow-up.
• Give informative property tours to potential prospects onsite and create value by anticipating needs and addressing objectives to close the tour. 
• Maintain accurate and current prospect traffic and leasing data in all required systems and platforms; complete administrative requirements for move-ins and move-outs to company standard.
• Assist with office administrative tasks, including package management.
• Coordinate the planning, preparation, and implementation of all lease up events (athletic events, housing fairs, orientations, open houses, etc.), renewal events, and resident programs.
• Execute the established sales and marketing strategies to increase property traffic, maintain closing ratios, and achieve the budgeted occupancy and revenue; this includes using traditional, digital, and social marketing mediums.
• Create and post engaging and visually appealing social media content for all approved company channels in accordance with company standards.
• Audit property websites and digital channels and listings for accuracy and expected visual standards.
• Produce and submit all required reporting to supervisor and support teams for approval to distribute as needed.
• Coordinate room assignments and roommate matching, where needed.
• Build and maintain relationships with local business, community leaders, university partners, etc. 
• Remain knowledgeable of market trends, market performance, new construction in area, enrollment, etc.
• Partner closely with service team to ensure property is consistently well-maintained and meets curb appeal standards.
• Other duties as assigned by manager.  
• This position may be subject to an on-call rotation. 

Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate for the Marketing & Resident Experience Specialist role is an early-career, customer-focused professional able to support leasing, marketing, and resident engagement activities within a property management environment. This role includes contributing to leasing processes, supporting marketing initiatives across traditional and digital platforms, and assisting with resident events that enhance community engagement and retention.

Candidates should have experience or interest in leasing, sales, marketing, hospitality, or customer service, (including leasing consultant or leasing specialist responsibilities) along with strong communication and organizational skills. While not all candidates will have experience across every area, they should be prepared to develop skills across both leasing and marketing functions.

American Campus Communities Culture Commitments

• Our people are devoted to a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equality in the workplace and our communities.  We are committed to intentionally executing an evolving set of goals specific to inclusion, diversity, and accountability, driven by empathetic leadership and embraced by all.
• The core of American Campus culture involves everyone being fully invested in everything that e do down to picking up the smallest piece of trash. No matter their position or duration at any given property, everyone picks up trash because we take pride in our community.
• Serve as an American Campus representative and liaison in all interactions.
• Certain activities involved in this position may be photographed and/or video and audio recorded for quality control and/or training purposes. Compliance with the Photo, Video and Voice Recording Policy is a condition of employment.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the minimum knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 
Education/Experience:

• 2 years’ of experience in leasing, marketing, or sales
• Experience in reading, analyzing and interpreting general business correspondence and leasing documents.
• Experience writing routine reports and correspondence
• Prior experience in the student housing industry preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or similar field preferred
• Social media experience preferred.

Benefits & Perks

• Benefits:
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401(k) with Employer Matching
  • Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Life Insurance
  • Sick Leave
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Pregnancy & Childbirth Leave
  • Paid Paternity Leave
  • Health Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with Employer Matching
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Perks:
  • Preferred Membership Pricing at Local & National Companies
  • CoreGiving Volunteer Days
  • Referral Program
  • Charity Matching Program

American Campus Communities is an equal opportunity employer. We value a diverse, inclusive workforce and provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local laws.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the LA County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider all qualified applicants, including those with arrest and conviction records, for employment.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Company Description

American Campus Communities

As the nation's best-in-class student housing company, we are passionately committed to serving the needs of our residents, parents, and college and university clients. We currently manage more than 200 on- and off-campus communities across North America. While we happen to be the largest company in our industry, our goal has always been and will remain to be the best.

It's the dedication of our employees that has allowed American Campus to grow from a small operator to the industry leader. To attract and retain such exceptional talent, we have created a work environment that is motivating and rewarding. We have been named one of the best companies to work for by Texas Monthly magazine and one of America's Most Trustworthy Companies by Forbes.

If you are a hard-working, reliable and fun-loving employee, we've got a place for you. In return, we offer opportunities, diversity, stability, job training and growth. Come join the American Campus family.

Company Description

American Campus Communities \r\n\r\nAs the nation's best-in-class student housing company, we are passionately committed to serving the needs of our residents, parents, and college and university clients. We currently manage more than 200 on- and off-campus communities across North America. While we happen to be the largest company in our industry, our goal has always been and will remain to be the best.\r\n\r\nIt's the dedication of our employees that has allowed American Campus to grow from a small operator to the industry leader. To attract and retain such exceptional talent, we have created a work environment that is motivating and rewarding. We have been named one of the best companies to work for by Texas Monthly magazine and one of America's Most Trustworthy Companies by Forbes. \r\n\r\nIf you are a hard-working, reliable and fun-loving employee, we've got a place for you. In return, we offer opportunities, diversity, stability, job training and growth. Come join the American Campus family.