Property Debt Recovery Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, 2 Year FTC
Salary: PO2 £42,771 – £45,750 per annum
Interview: w/c 15th December 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 30th November 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

The Property Debt Recovery Officer role at Haringey Council is a support role responsible to deliver across the Council’s portfolio, assisting with the effective day to day management of the property portfolio and actively pursuing Commercial property debtors to maximise commercial income.

Provide advice in a customer-focused way, ensuring transparency and clear communications with customers,  partners and stakeholders, responding to internal and external queries as appropriate in a timely manner, deal with tenant’s queries regarding payments, refunds and non-payment of rent and services, also negotiate and agree payment arrangements.

Support the property team with projects involving back-office support as well as front of house delivery of services as required to assist in maintaining the council’s property interests.

About you

The Property Debt Recovery Officer role at Haringey Council is a support role responsible to deliver across the Council’s portfolio, assisting with the effective day to day management of the property portfolio and actively pursuing Commercial property debtors to maximise commercial income. Provide advice in a customer-focused way, ensuring transparency and clear communications with customers,  partners and stakeholders, responding to internal and external queries as appropriate in a timely manner, deal with tenant’s queries regarding payments, refunds and non-payment of rent and services, also negotiate and agree payment arrangements. Support the property team with projects involving back-office support as well as front of house delivery of services as required to assist in maintaining the council’s property interests.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may end be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk