District Operations Director

District Operations Director

The District Operations Director is responsible for overseeing the district portfolio and managing local team members. Key responsibilities include achieving financial objectives, enhancing employee engagement, and ensuring a positive experience for residents. As a collaborative business leader, the District Operations Director focuses on continuous improvement within the portfolio, developing team members, and providing effective leadership.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Working primarily within an indoors office environment, the District Operations Director may sit for several hours at a time and climb up and down stairs multiple times each day. Prolonged exposure to computer screens is required, and must travel throughout applicable market using personal vehicle. Occasional hands-on work and training is required.

Required Education and Experience:

• 7+ years of progressive asset management or property management experience
• 5+ years proven management experience leading teams
• Valid Driver's License
• Intermediate Technology expertise (Microsoft Office Suite)
• Ability to obtain Real Estate License within 90 days of hire date
• General knowledge of budgeting and financial analysis

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Experience working in a fast pace, high-growth company
• Degree in Business
• Yardi software expertise
• Strong Customer Service acumen & Conflict Management Experience
• Above average ability to communicate with others, both verbally and in writing
• Experience working in a cross-functional group, project management, and/or process improvement

Required Knowledge:

• Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

Required Skills:

• Judgment and Decision Making— Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Negotiation— Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Critical Thinking— Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Monitoring— Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Time Management— Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Management of Personnel Resources— Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Management of Financial Resources— Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Speaking— Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Writing— Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Work Styles & Behaviors:

• Leadership— Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Persistence— Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
• Initiative— Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Achievement/Effort— Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
• Attention to Detail— Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Adaptability/Flexibility— Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

FirstKey Homes is an equal opportunity employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, genetic information or any other legally protected classification or status.