Leasehold Officer in Essex

As a Leasehold Officer, you'll be the main housing contact for leaseholders living in our over‑55s retirement schemes. You'll deliver a person‑centred housing service that reflects individual needs while ensuring each scheme is safe, well‑managed, and financially sound. Working closely with residents, colleagues, and contractors, you'll balance wellbeing, property management, and income collection to create environments where people feel supported and secure in their homes.

How you'll do it:

• Provide tailored housing management support to leaseholders, including regular welfare checks and home visits.
• Support residents to understand their lease responsibilities, service charges, sinking funds, and payment options.
• Manage repairs and maintenance in communal areas, liaising with contractors and monitoring quality of work.
• Oversee health and safety compliance at scheme level, including fire risk assessment actions and site security.
• Lead resident engagement through meetings, consultations, and feedback on services and budgets.
• Monitor service charge income and take appropriate action to recover arrears, escalating when necessary.
• Work with internal teams such as Resales, Assets, and Care & Support to deliver joined‑up services.
• Maintain clean, welcoming communal areas and support activities that enhance residents' quality of life.

The ideal candidate:

• Numeracy and literacy skills equivalent to NVQ Level 2.
• Experience providing a customer‑focused housing or support service to residents.
• Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation and the ability to apply legislation, policy, and best practice in a housing setting.
• Effective IT skills, including basic Microsoft Office or similar systems.

What's in it for you?

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply).
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply).
• Employee assistance – free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan.
• Staff discounts – we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans – season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary.

All about us:

Notting Hill Genesis is a not‑for‑profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to an Enhanced check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.