Property Manager

Come turn broken buildings into purposeful places at one of our area’s few certified B-Corps. Signal Works Property Management (SWPM), operating as a division of Signal Works Architecture, has an immediate opening for a Property Manager position in our Providence, RI office.

This full time position with flexible hours is ideal for an ambitious and experienced Property Manager ready to join a key department in a mission-driven, values-based organization. The Property Manager will work with the CEO and Administration Department to create great business relationships for owners and tenants. SWPM currently has approximately 50 units under management, a mix of light commercial and 3-6 unit residential buildings.

There is also an opportunity to learn and work in the acquisition, financing, and project management of Real Estate Development, an exciting sister field that few other firms can offer.

Full Responsibility for:

Leasing

• Maintains property rentals by advertising, showing units to prospective tenants, and filling vacancies. Negotiating and enforcing leases.
• Establishes rental rate by surveying local rental rates and calculating overhead costs, depreciation, taxes, and profit goals.

Maintenance

• Maintains property to a set standard by investigating and resolving tenant complaints, enforcing rules of occupancy, inspecting vacant units, securing properties, completing repairs, planning renovations, and contracting with vendors.

Tenant Management

• Maintain a positive, productive relationship with tenants, owners, and co-workers.
• Be on-call to respond to emergency situations, and have reliable transportation.

Financial/Client Management

• Accomplishes financial objectives by designing a business plan to meet client owners' needs, collecting rents, paying bills, forecasting requirements, preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action.
• Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.

Office

• Accomplishes organizational goals by exploring opportunities to add value to position and department.
• Source and build relationships with prospective clients to expand business opportunities.
• Update job and market knowledge.

Other tasks as required.

Experience & Skills Needed:

• Proven work experience over three to five years as a Property Manager, or comparably demonstrated skills
• Understanding of property management best practices, including its financial aspects for our business and clients
• Knowledge of laws, rules, and regulations surrounding property management specific to the Providence metro area and the State of Rhode Island
• Motivation for sales with an opportunity to help craft sales and marketing strategy
• Customer focus and bottom line orientation
• Interpersonal savvy with strong communication skills
• Well organized with excellent time management skills
• Valid real estate agent/broker license or willing to work towards one.
• Spanish-speaking ability is a benefit, but not required

Career Development: Property Manager Director

This position may evolve into the Property Manager Director position once specific, measurable department growth goals have been achieved. The director role is eligible for quarterly performance-based bonuses.

Additional Opportunities: Real Estate Development training to become a Deal Manager

Our company is active in leading its own real estate development work – from main-streets, mixed-use commercial redevelopment, to improving and rehabilitating aging, multi-family properties. There is an opportunity to learn the acquisition, financing, and project management work in this exciting sister field that few other firms can offer.

How we operate:

• A custom salary and benefits package designed with you to meet your life needs. Mix, match, and scale your choice of medical and dental plans, paid time off, retirement account with company match, and more. Our baseline offer includes a 100% covered BCBSRI healthcare plan. Benefits begin on your first day.
• Incentive Bonus and Performance Bonus opportunities every quarter.
• Work on your flexible schedule. Keep your calendar updated and hit deadlines, and when you spend your work time is entirely up to you.
• Everyone works on a hybrid schedule, splitting time focusing on work individually from home and collaborating together in the office.
• Annual salary adjustments.
• Quarterly career development planning with key result-based goals, and bonus upon completion.
• Up to $2,000 a year reimbursement for training time, materials, and passed coursework.
• An employee recognition program where grateful colleagues and managers give points to purchase gift cards or make charitable donations.
• The company maintains a pool of paid volunteer time for all staff to support under-served communities.
• An internal Care Team, managed and staffed by employees, to support coworkers, manage company charitable donations, plan staff volunteer and social activities, and make a positive impact on our staff and community.
• An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Chaplain to support employees and immediate family members.
• Bring your own devices. No need to carry multiple phones; an app sits on your existing smartphone and routes business calls. We will provide a new computer, and two monitors for use at the office or home. Our office is designed to support any operating system with bandwidth up to Wifi 6.
• Single-member AAA membership.

About Signal Works

Signal Works is a mission-driven, Providence-based architecture firm. We turn Broken Buildings into Purposeful Places through our specializations in Innovative Schools, Urban Rehabilitations, and Values-Aligned Work Environments. Our efforts have been recognized by Grow Smart Rhode Island, Providence Business News, and others with distinctions ranging from Historic Preservation to Restaurant Interiors. Many are already familiar with our work for AAA Northeast, the Providence G, and Trinity Academy of Performing Arts.

We apply our values of “People-Focused, Place-Based and Purpose Driven” to how we design our projects, operate our company, and care for our team. To help us measure our social impact, we became the first certified B-Corp Architecture firm in Southern New England. We put our best ideas into practice in our own space, converting an 1850s gasometer in Olneyville - the Atlantic Design Works - into a breathtaking office and business hub for early-stage creative food entrepreneurs.

Signal Works lives its People-Focused, Place-Based, and Purpose-Driven values by providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy extends to all terms and conditions of employment, including compensation and training.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $25.00 - $28.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 30 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Application Question(s):

• Phone
• Desired Salary
• Languages Spoken
• Driver's license

Ability to Relocate:

• Providence, RI 02909: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $2,000