Area Property Manager

Student housing operates on a calendar that doesn't forgive. Beds fill or they don't, and by the time you know which, the window has mostly closed. Managing a portfolio of five properties across College Station and Bryan means living inside that reality every day, and The Scion Group is looking for someone who already understands it.

This Area Manager role covers a cluster of assets in the Texas A&M market: Aspire College Station, Lark Northgate, Northpoint Crossing, Redpoint College Station, and Z Islander in Bryan. That's a meaningful footprint. You're not shadowing a regional manager or easing into oversight. You're accountable for the full operational picture across all five communities, with the Regional Manager setting strategic direction and you executing it on the ground.

Day to day, the work spans a wide range. You'll own financial performance across the portfolio, which means preparing annual and capex budgets, managing variance explanations, overseeing payroll, and keeping NOI moving in the right direction. You'll also run the leasing strategy side, working with the Regional Revenue Manager on weekly sales calls, reviewing traffic, closing ratios, and concession activity, and adjusting the approach for each property based on where they sit in the lease-up cycle. Student housing turn is its own animal, and you'll plan and manage that process too, including personnel, overtime, and vendor coordination during what is essentially a full reset of every unit in a compressed window.

The people side carries equal weight. You'll hire, train, and develop community-level staff across all five sites, build accountability structures, and work with Scion's internal talent and learning teams to create real career paths for your people. Escalated resident issues land with you. Property emergencies land with you. When something goes sideways at 10 p.m. before move-in weekend, you're the call.

What a strong candidate looks like

The candidates who do well in roles like this have usually already managed multiple sites simultaneously and have a feel for how to triage competing priorities without losing sight of the financial targets. Student housing adds a layer most conventional multifamily experience doesn't prepare you for: the academic calendar compresses every major leasing, renewal, and turn decision into predictable but unforgiving windows. If you've managed by-the-bed assets at the university-adjacent level, you'll recognize the rhythm immediately. If your background is entirely conventional multifamily, expect a real adjustment period.

• Demonstrated experience managing multi-site property portfolios
• Strong financial acumen: budgeting, variance analysis, NOI management, forecasting
• Experience leading leasing strategy and working with revenue management tools or data platforms
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and hold accountable community-level teams
• Familiarity with student housing operations, including turn management, preferred
• Must be eligible to work in the United States (visa sponsorship is not available)
• Based in College Station or able to commute to the area

Scion positions itself as a growth-oriented operator in the student housing space, and the Area Manager level is typically the step that precedes Regional Manager responsibility. If you perform well across a portfolio this size and diverse, the path upward is a reasonable one.