Leasing Consultant

Student housing leasing runs on a different clock than conventional multifamily. The academic calendar dictates everything: traffic spikes in fall, Turn is a genuine operational event (not just a busy week), and your residents are often signing their first-ever lease. If you understand that rhythm and actually enjoy working with that population, this role at Redpoint Knoxville fits.

Skills This Role Puts to Work Daily

The Experience Team Member position at Scion draws on a specific combination of abilities. Sales and relationship-building sit at the center. You'll conduct community tours, field objections, and feed intel back to management on what's slowing conversions. That's a real leasing function, not just showing units and hoping for the best.

Equally important is communication across channels. Social media engagement, direct outreach, event promotion, and in-person interaction with a diverse resident population are all part of the day. You're not just staffing a front desk. You're functioning as a local face of the brand, and that extends to how you carry yourself off-site as well.

On the administrative side, expect package management, maintenance request coordination, office and amenity upkeep, and after-hours lockout coverage on rotation. None of that is glamorous. It's the operational connective tissue that keeps a student property running between the bigger leasing moments.

What the Role Actually Demands

Availability matters here in ways it doesn't at conventional properties. Summer is not a slow season in student housing. Turn, the period when hundreds of residents vacate and re-occupy within days, requires all hands and a tolerance for controlled chaos. Holidays and weekends are part of the rotation. If your schedule can't flex around the academic calendar, this will be a frustrating fit.

Beyond availability, the candidates who do well in this role tend to share a few traits:

• Genuine comfort working with 18 to 22-year-olds, including the calls at inconvenient hours
• Ability to shift between sales mode and administrative tasks without losing momentum
• Enough self-discipline to stay organized during the chaotic pre-Turn and lease-up stretches
• Honest interest in local marketing, not just executing what management hands down

Why Scion and Why This Property

Scion operates at scale in purpose-built student housing, which means their systems, training, and leasing processes are more developed than what you'd find at a smaller operator running a few converted properties near a campus. For someone early in a property management career, that infrastructure matters. The skills you build here, particularly around lease-up pacing, traffic conversion, and resident experience programming, transfer cleanly into conventional multifamily or into a senior leasing role at another student housing operator.

Redpoint Knoxville serves the University of Tennessee market, which runs a predictable but demanding leasing cycle. This is not a slow property. If you want volume, variety, and a role that won't look the same week to week, that's what student housing delivers.