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Rent Connect Officer
Northern Region; Service Delivery; Housing & Homelessness Services; Cairns
Your role within Housing and Homelessness Services will support the department to deliver housing and homelessness services through Housing Service Centres.
You will deliver the department Rent Connect products and facilitate customer access to the private rental market, as well as assist customers sustain private tenancies.
Job details
| Position status | Fixed Term Temporary |
|---|---|
| Position type | Flexible full-time |
| Occupational group | Community Care |
| Classification | AO5 |
| Workplace Location | Cairns region,Far North Qld |
| Job ad reference | QLD/655391/25 |
| Closing date | 02-Sep-2025 |
| Job duration | 31/10/2025 with possible extension |
| Contact person | Kim McAlonan |
| Contact details | Ph: 07 4036 5471 Access the National Relay Service |
What you will be doing:
- Assess and respond to customer needs, including assessment of a customer's housing need, and their ability to sustain a tenancy in the private market.
- Provide private rental assistance to customers with a housing need including information, education, coaching and advocacy to help customers find, secure and sustain private rental accommodation.
- Establish, strengthen, utilise strategic networks and individual relationships with local real estate agents and lessors, non-government and government human service providers, temporary accommodation providers and local government agencies.
- Developing and maintaining current knowledge of the local rental market and housing options available.
Mandatory Requirement
Class C driver's license
Applications will remain current for a period of 12 months.
Further information
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