Leasing Consultant

Student housing leasing runs on a different rhythm than conventional multifamily. Traffic spikes during application season, turns compress into a few frantic weeks in late summer, and your residents are eighteen to twenty-two years old with parents often just as involved in the decision. Scion's Experience Team Member (ETM) role at Ion Baton Rouge puts you right at the center of that cycle, and it's genuinely one of the better training grounds in the industry for someone who wants to build a leasing career.

What You'll Actually Do

Most of your day involves direct customer interaction: touring prospective residents and their families, following up on leads, and communicating across social media platforms to keep the community visible and engaged. You'll also handle the administrative work that keeps a property running, logging and retrieving packages, scheduling maintenance requests, keeping the office and common areas presentable, and assisting with after-hours lockout calls when you're on rotation. During Turn, expect the pace to shift considerably. That period demands reliability and flexibility above almost anything else, as the entire community turns over in a compressed window before the new academic year begins.

You'll also feed information upward. When prospective residents push back on pricing or raise objections about amenities, you document that and share it with management. That feedback loop directly shapes how the property markets itself and adjusts its messaging, so your observations carry real operational weight.

What You Bring

• A customer-first mindset that holds up under pressure and with a wide range of people
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across multiple platforms
• Dependability, especially during peak periods like Turn and summer lease-up
• Comfort with a schedule that includes daytime business hours and rotating after-hours on-call
• Eligibility to work in the United States (visa sponsorship is not available)

What This Role Builds

Here's the distinction worth understanding before you apply. This role requires interpersonal skill and self-discipline from day one. What it builds is something more specific: fluency in the student housing leasing cycle, comfort translating sales objections into actionable property feedback, and the kind of operational range that comes from touching leasing, marketing, administration, and resident services all in a single position. Consultants who perform well in ETM roles typically move into assistant manager or leasing manager positions, especially within student-focused operators where property management experience and knowledge of the academic calendar are genuinely valued.

Baton Rouge's student housing market is shaped largely by LSU's enrollment patterns, which means this property sees predictable but intense demand windows. Understanding how to perform during those windows, and how to maintain occupancy and engagement outside of them, is a skill set that transfers directly to any lease-up or high-traffic conventional property down the road.