We are looking for a Property Manager to ensure all our villas and hotel rooms maintain perfect 'guest ready’ status, through the combination of furnishing replacements, maintenance fixes, and general ‘face-lifts’. There’s only so much our cleaning teams can do in their cleaning windows - and that’s where you will come in!

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a good level of experience in this area to join a young and friendly company operating here on the East Coast.

Tasks

• • Continuous inspection of all villas, ensuring ‘guest ready’ status at all times

• • Cross-checking furnishing lists, to ensure each villa has the correct amount of all furnishings

• • Identifying maintenance issues and coordinating relevant team members (electricians/ plumbers/ carpenters) for fixes

• • Conducting the necessary preventative measures to decrease overall issues

• • Creating and updating a list of skilled and trusted professionals (fundis) and engaging them appropriately

• • Negotiating rates, briefing on tasks, and monitoring all works by external professionals

• • Daily management and administration of our property issues list on Asana

• • Attending weekly property management meetings to discuss current tasks/challenges

• • General operations tasks such as organizing staff uniforms and ordering equipment for other teams

Requirements

• • 5+years in property management for hotels and/or villas in the hospitality sector

• • A keen eye for detail, with an understanding of holiday makers’ expectations of ‘guest ready’

• • Highly organised, and able to administer basic digital applications (Telegram, Asana)

• • Knowledge of how and where to source common furnishing items on the island

• • A strong understanding of common maintenance issues and their required fixes

• • The ability to interact effectively with a wide range of professionals - most notably, fundis

• • Strong understanding and practical knowledge of property maintenance tasks

• • A quick critical thinker with a fast-action mindset to quickly resolve all issues encountered

• • Ideally possess an existing network of skilled and reliable fundis

• Great written and verbal communication in Swahili and English (any other language is a bonus!)