Leasing Consultant

Student housing leasing runs on a different clock than conventional multifamily. The academic calendar drives everything: fall turn periods compress a staggering volume of move-ins into a matter of days, summer is peak leasing season rather than a slow stretch, and your residents are 18 to 22 years old with parents often involved in the decision. If you've worked conventional residential leasing and want to try student housing, that context matters before you apply.

What the Role Actually Covers

The Scion Group calls this position an Experience Team Member, and the title reflects the scope honestly. You're not just pulling traffic and closing leases. The role blends leasing, light marketing, customer service, and property administration into one position. On a given day you might be running a community tour for a prospective resident and their parents in the morning, logging and distributing packages in the afternoon, following up on open maintenance requests before close, and jumping on an after-hours lockout call that evening. The on-call rotation is real. It's listed in the requirements, not buried in fine print.

On the sales side, you'll give tours of the community and amenities, work through objections with prospects, and contribute ideas on local marketing and outreach. Scion operates in collegiate markets, so building relationships with campus organizations, local businesses, and student groups is part of the outreach picture. You'll also help manage the community's social media presence and assist in planning resident engagement events.

Property administration is a consistent part of the workload too: keeping the office and common areas clean and organized, scheduling maintenance follow-ups, and handling general operational tasks that keep the property running smoothly day to day.

What the Job Requires

• Genuine comfort working with a diverse, mostly college-age population and their families
• Strong verbal communication and the ability to read a room during a tour or a tense conversation
• Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and during turn periods when the schedule gets demanding
• Reliability and self-direction. Managers can't babysit a leasing floor
• Eligibility to work in the United States (Scion does not sponsor visas)

Where This Role Can Take You

For someone early in a property management career, a student housing leasing role builds a specific and transferable skill set. Turn coordination alone teaches you more about logistics and resident communication than months of conventional leasing. The sales, marketing, and administrative blend here also maps well onto an Assistant Manager or Leasing Manager path, either within student housing or at a conventional Class A or B property. Scion operates communities across multiple university markets, so internal movement is a realistic option for strong performers. The work isn't always easy, but the foundation it builds is solid.