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Senior Housing Officer


Northern Region, Service Delivery, Housing & Homelessness Services, Cairns

Service Delivery, Housing and Homelessness Services provides a range of services, products and referrals to offer housing solutions for diverse customer groups.

You will manage complex social housing and housing assistance services and supervise Housing Officers delivering direct services to customers in person over the front counter, by telephone, correspondence, in the field and through outreach services in the community.

Regularly works in the field, which includes meeting with customers in their homes. Conditions are changeable and can be volatile, requiring varying degrees of vigilance and management of risk. Regional roles may involve intra-state travel overnight.

Job details

Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Flexible full-time
Occupational group Community Care
Classification AO4
Workplace Location Cairns region,Far North Qld
Job ad reference QLD/648931/25
Closing date 30-Jul-2025
Job duration Until 03/10/2025
Contact person Marina Stocks
Contact details Phone: (07) 4036 5466
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What you will be doing:

  • Approve high and very high need social housing applications and transfers, and quality assuring application assessments.
  • Develop effective professional relationships with stakeholders to improve customer outcomes and processes and manage formal internal and external complaints and facilitating resolutions.
  • Represent the department in appeals and attending the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
  • Supervise team activities and exercising delegation as required, including monitoring performance, workload management, addressing operational issues and reporting.
  • Manage and assess properties, conducting condition appraisal inspections and providing advice on maintenance requirements

Mandatory Requirement:

Class C drivers license.

2 temporary positions available: 1. 25/08/2025-03/10/2025 2. 08/09/2025-31/12/2025

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Last updated
2 May 2023

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