We are Places for People Group, we're a social enterprise that believes it's more than just homes that make a community - it's the people. That's why we build homes and manage communities where everyone can thrive.
We aren't your typical company. We apply the same philosophy to our People as we do to our communities, ensuring our team is appreciated and supported. At Places for People, you're more than just a number - you're a part of our cause.
More about your role
This role is part of our 2023 graduate programme, known internally as our Emerging Talent programme. As our Graduate Housing Officer you'll support with the delivery of housing management services to our tenants across Scotland.
The two-year programme will support you to develop the core skills, behaviours and technical ability to develop into a Housing Officer or another role within the wider housing sector we operate within.
This is a new role within Places for People Scotland, based within our Edinburgh communities the role will allow you to create, develop and put into practice process and ways of working to support tenancies within your communities. This will include working closely with our tenants to sustain their tenancies, this could involve dealing with tenancy challenges and estate management.
You'll start to develop an understanding of the community you work within, with the ability build strong relationships with customers. Keeping our customers and communities safe and sustainable.
As we keep creating communities you'll have the opportunity to work closely with our inhouse Developer Housebuilder, getting exposure to the building stage of property management aswell as the handover for new tenancy.
The role will be responsible for travelling to our tenancies across Edinburgh. This is an Agile role, predominantly working from home and visiting sites within your area.
For more information, please download our job profile available on our website.
More about you
You'll be educated to a graduate level with a degree within a related specialism such as Housing, Real Estate, or a degree with a link to social services or working with vulnerable people. You'll have an enthusiasm for what you do and want to develop a career within Housing.
You'll be a real people person and want a role that sees you getting out and about speaking with our customers, colleagues and other individuals. Strong communicators will do well within these roles.
The ideal candidate will keep customer at the heart of decision-making and want a role that supports this. You will work as part of a team and have a “can do” approach when responding to customers, colleagues and external partners. You will have the ability to be empathetic with our customers and their situations when necessary and will take a pro-active approach to problem solving.
The application process is designed to support you to showcase your personality, strong communicators and candidates who embody our SPIRIT values will be looked upon favourably.
Benefits
You'll join our Emerging Talent programme which brings together SPIRITed and talented individuals from across Places for People. The programme is designed to provide you with a wide range of skills, business insight and sector specific knowledge over two years. You'll learn a lot and quickly, you'll get exposure to some of our senior leaders as well being connected to a business mentor to support you throughout. You'll be encouraged and empowered to flourish and thrive within a nurturing environment. Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that's why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse ad pioneering environment.
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
What's next?
Hopefully what you've read here has got you excited and wanting to apply. The first step of the application process should take around 20 minutes. You'll be asked to complete your personal details, academic history and provide us some additional supporting information about you. Don't worry you should know all of the answers. The next part of the application form is asking you to complete a few additional questions, these will ask you to consider your reason for applying, what you want out of the Emerging Talent programme and how you would address current societal issues. Take your time over these, your answers will be shared and may lead to additional questions throughout the application process.
Finally, you'll be asked to upload a CV, this should include an overview of your work history so far, don't forget to include any volunteering you've done. You will need to make sure this includes all of your academic achievements, from GCSE to your most recent qualifications.
Once we've been able to review your application and CV, successful candidates will be sent invites to complete a video interview. This gives you the opportunity to give us more information and offer insight into the person behind the CV.
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