National Property Manager

Clear Investment Group • Chicago, IL

16h • $75,000 - $80,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This is an opportunity to be CIG’s go-anywhere operator — stepping into the properties and situations where your leadership can make the biggest impact across a fast-growing multifamily portfolio. You’ll take ownership from day one — stepping into property manager vacancies, leadership gaps, and challenging assets to keep operations, leasing, collections, maintenance, and team performance moving forward. You’ll help stabilize distressed and transitioning properties — identifying operational gaps, setting priorities, strengthening on-site teams, and driving occupancy, collections, and property standards in the right direction. You’ll lead critical transitions and special projects across the portfolio — from onboarding newly acquired properties to executing operational turnarounds, occupancy pushes, and collections cleanups.

Requirements

• 5+ years of property management experience, including leadership experience; multifamily strongly preferred.
• Experience working with and stabilizing distressed properties strongly preferred.
• Willing and able to travel approximately 75%, including extended assignments away from home; flexibility to deploy on short notice as portfolio needs arise.
• Able to take ownership of an unfamiliar property quickly and operate independently with minimal oversight.
• High level of organization and attention to detail; ability to exercise sound judgment.
• Experience with Yardi Voyager and RentCafe.
• Knowledge of Fair Housing regulations.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; ability to maintain positive relationships with internal and external contacts.
• Motivation for sales and a drive to meet leasing and occupancy objectives.
• Comfort with AI productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) — CIG expects active, ongoing use of AI to maximize efficiency.
• Must be able to walk at least 3 miles a day and lift 50 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Assume full responsibility for the daily operations of the assigned property — leasing, collections, maintenance, and reporting — from the first day of each assignment.
• Operate the property within established financial guidelines; manage collections and evictions for the community.
• Perform daily physical inspections of the property and coordinate with the maintenance team on repairs, unit turns, and curb appeal.
• Enforce occupancy policies and procedures; ensure all CIG policies are upheld and infractions are properly reported.
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion to handle and resolve resident requests or concerns.
• Maintain property rentals by advertising and filling vacancies; meet leasing objectives by ensuring proper marketing tools are implemented.
• Communicate with residents regarding property maintenance, repairs, and community standards.
• Implement, design, and maintain a resident retention program appropriate to the property's stage of stabilization.
• Maintain direct supervision of all on-site staff, including work schedules, the delegation of duties, and conflict resolution.
• Interview and hire property employees; help fill vacant on-site positions so the property is fully staffed before the assignment ends.
• Coach, train, and stabilize existing on-site teams — especially where a property has been operating without consistent leadership.
• Step in as the acting Property Manager during vacancies, vacations, and leaves of absence — keeping operations, reporting, and team performance seamless in the permanent manager's absence.
• Lead the operational onboarding of newly acquired properties, including initial property and unit inspections, staffing plans, data and ledger migration into Yardi, and implementation of CIG policies and procedures.
• Execute special projects at assigned properties — such as occupancy pushes, collections cleanup, compliance remediation, or operational turnarounds — and drive them to completion.
• Document the state of the property at the start and end of each assignment and deliver a clean, organized handoff to the incoming or returning Property Manager.
• Assist with preparing reports for ownership by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing property data.
• Provide regular status updates to the Director of Property Management and regional leadership throughout each assignment.
• Investigate and/or report any incidents regarding residents, employees, vendors, or others regarding the property.
• Take responsibility for administrative duties, including all required reporting; leverage AI tools to draft correspondence, organize data, and prepare reports efficiently.

Benefits

• Eligible for year-end and performance bonuses
• Company-paid housing/lodging while on assignment
• Travel costs covered (airfare, mileage, and/or rental car to and from assignments)
• Per diem for meals while traveling
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• PTO and Holidays
• Access to 401(k)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed