Leasing Consultant

What You'll Actually Do

The Experience Team Member role at The Magnolia at Auburn sits at the intersection of leasing, marketing, and resident relations. On any given day, you might be touring a prospective resident through the community, responding to a social media inquiry, logging packages, and following up on a maintenance request before your shift ends. That range isn't accidental. Scion builds this role to cover the full front-facing operation of a student housing community, which means you're rarely doing the same thing twice.

Touring is central. You'll walk prospects through amenities, handle objections in real time, and report sales barriers back to the management team so pricing strategy and messaging can adjust accordingly. You'll also support local marketing efforts, assist with resident engagement events, and help maintain the kind of community presence that keeps occupancy strong through the competitive student leasing cycle.

Property administration rounds out the role. Package management, office upkeep, maintenance request coordination, and after-hours lockout coverage are all part of the job. These aren't glamorous tasks, but they're where residents form their strongest impressions of a community's management.

What You Bring

• Genuine comfort talking to a wide range of people, including prospective residents, parents, and current residents with complaints
• Reliability during high-stakes periods: summer, holidays, and Turn (the concentrated move-in/move-out cycle that defines student housing operations)
• Self-discipline to handle an on-call rotation without needing constant supervision
• Flexibility when priorities shift mid-shift, because they will
• Basic comfort with social media platforms used for community communication and marketing

What This Role Builds

Student housing leasing sharpens skills that transfer directly into conventional multifamily. You'll develop the ability to read traffic patterns, respond to seasonal leasing pressure, and communicate concessions and incentives clearly without overselling. The Turn period in student housing is one of the most operationally demanding experiences in residential property management. Executing it well, even in a supporting role, demonstrates a level of operational awareness that carries real weight on a resume.

Strong candidates here aren't necessarily the most extroverted people in the room. They're the ones who follow through consistently, stay professional when residents are frustrated, and treat the administrative side of the job with the same care they give the sales side. The two are inseparable in student housing, and the candidates who understand that early tend to advance quickly.