Assistant Rent Income Officer in London

Are you looking to gain experience while working for a leading housing and homelessness charity? We are looking for someone to join the dynamic and friendly Rent Service Team as Assistant Rent Service Partner. This busy team processes Housing Benefit payments from 55 local authorities in the UK for up to 4000 St Mungo’s residents and collects over £45 million in rent and service charge, playing a key role in the organisation to support clients to rebuild their lives.

In this role you will:

• Provide administrative support to the Rent Service Team to facilitate early intervention of rent arrears overall.
• Be responsible for a caseload of up to 750 residents; working proactively to support clients in prevention of rent arrears within your designated caseload.
• Use your sound influencing skills in the recovery of former tenant rent arrears.
• Communicate effectively to provide high levels of customer service to internal and external stakeholders.

In this role you will be required to work for at least 2 days per week from our Central Office in Farringdon, London. This allows for training, in person collaboration, team building, line management and other relationship building opportunities. We support a flexible approach to work with opportunities for agile working for the rest of your week, from home.

About you

We think these roles offer a great opportunity for proactive people looking to develop the skills required for future career progression. We encourage you to apply if you can provide excellent customer service and demonstrate the below:

• Some knowledge and experience of tenancy management, income and arrears collection, or a willingness to develop these skills.
• An understanding of general benefit legislation and its effects on vulnerably housed people and people experiencing homelessness.
• The ability to work as part of a team with good communication skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with a variety of different people.
• Strong administration skills, attention to detail and the ability to use different IT packages including Microsoft Office.
• Good organisation and the ability to effectively prioritise your own time and workload.

We’re eager to learn about the real you and ask candidates to avoid relying on AI tools when completing their application forms. We value authentic, personal responses that accurately reflect your experiences, skills, strengths and potential.

How to apply

We may close this advert early and encourage early application if you are interested. To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document’ tab on the advert page on our website. When you're ready to apply click the ‘Apply Now’ Button to submit your online application form. Closing date: 10am on 28 September 2026. Interview and assessments on: 12 October 2026. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have existing and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of employment. Successful candidates will be required to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

About Us

Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years, we have been on the ground every day and every night, supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.

What We Offer

We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued, and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients.

• A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ+, Women's Action, Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks.
• Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
• A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
• Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff, unconscious bias training for managers, and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
• In recognition of the importance of transparency, we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky, but with family friendly policies, flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance, we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them. These include:

• Agile working model for suitable roles.
• Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
• 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years’ service.
• Family friendly leave policies including maternity, adoption and parental leave.
• Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
• Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options.
• Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
• Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app – 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice.
• Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
• Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more.

At St Mungo’s we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. That’s why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo’s. These include:

• Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
• Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
• Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.