Area Property Manager

It's Tuesday morning and one of your four Oxford properties just flagged a maintenance emergency. You're already scheduled to walk two other sites and join a regional sales call before noon. This is the pace of the Area Manager role at The Scion Group, and the candidates who thrive here treat that kind of morning as routine.

What This Role Covers

The Scion Group operates a portfolio of student housing communities in Oxford, Mississippi, and this position holds operational accountability across all of them. Archive Oxford, Lark Oxford, Redpoint Oxford, and The Heritage Collection at Oxford are your sites. You report to a Regional Manager and translate corporate strategy into daily execution at the community level.

On the management side, you hire, train, and develop on-site teams. You conduct property inspections covering curb appeal, safety, maintenance operations, and brand consistency. You lead the turn process, which in student housing is one of the most operationally intensive periods of the year, coordinating personnel, overtime, and vendor contracts to get units ready on time. When emergencies happen, you're the escalation point.

Financially, you own the full picture: annual and capital budgets, variance reporting, payroll, invoice entry, collections, and month-end close. You work directly with Property Accounting to explain variances and keep NOI on track. You're expected to actively look for ways to cut costs or add revenue, not wait to be asked.

The leasing side of this role carries real weight. Student housing runs on tight lease-up cycles tied to the academic calendar. You'll use Scion's internal data platform to analyze leasing velocity, gain-to-lease, concessions, and market rates across the portfolio. You participate in weekly sales calls with Regional Revenue Managers and help each community build and execute its revenue strategy for the year, including renewal plans, new resident incentives, unit mix decisions, and rate structures.

Customer experience is also part of your scope. You handle escalated resident complaints, oversee reputation management, and make sure your teams are hired and developed with a service mindset.

What Scion Is Looking For

• Demonstrated experience managing multi-site or portfolio operations, ideally in student housing or a high-turnover residential environment
• Strong financial acumen: budget preparation, NOI management, and variance analysis
• Hands-on experience leading teams through the annual turn process
• Comfort with leasing data and revenue strategy, including concessions, premiums, and occupancy forecasting
• Ability to work on-site in Oxford, MS, or commute from a nearby area (no visa sponsorship available)
• Quick decision-making under pressure, with the ability to prioritize across multiple properties simultaneously

The candidates who stand out in this role aren't just strong operators. They understand that in student housing, the leasing calendar and the operational calendar are always running at the same time. The person who can coach a leasing team on closing ratios in the morning and review a capex variance report in the afternoon, without dropping either, is the person built for this position.