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Senior Housing Officer - Remote Communities


Northern Region; Service Delivery; Housing & Homelessness Services; Palm Island

What you can expect in this role

Your role within Housing and Homelessness Services will support the department to deliver housing and homelessness services through Housing Service Centres. The work you will do helps someone every day, and that means the world to us.
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.

Field work is a regular requirement of this role. Conditions in the field are changeable and can be volatile, requiring varying degrees of vigilance and management of risk.

Job details

Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Flexible full-time
Occupational group Administration
Classification AO4
Workplace Location Townsville region
Job ad reference QLD/611269/24
Closing date 10-Jan-2025
Job duration 6 months with possible extension
Contact person Krestyn Dyer
Contact details Phone: 07 4724 8512
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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.

• Manage formal internal and external complaints and facilitating resolutions.

• Develop effective professional relationships with stakeholders to improve customer outcomes.

• 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.

• Contributing to portfolio renewal plans and implementation of property developments.

• Lead and ensure you establish and maintain a workplace safety culture by ensuring that all policies and practices concerning Workplace Health and Safety are applied and a part of day to day operations.

What we are looking for

We are looking to find the person best suited for the role and will be considering your knowledge, skills, experience, potential for development and future contribution to the department as well as your personal qualities and how they contribute to our department's equity and diversity objectives which aim to build a workforce that reflects the Queensland community.

It is recognised that everyone is a leader regardless of classification level. Refer to the Team Leader stream of the Leadership competencies for Queensland framework to understand the expectations for this role.

The skills you will need include being able to:

• Actively work to understand customers and stakeholders, encouraging a strong customer-focus and building understanding of customer perspectives within the team.

• Demonstrate a balanced approach to managing conflicting demands and comfortably handle risk.

• Readily share your knowledge and experience, acting as a coach, mentor, role-model and sounding board for others.

• Demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication, modelling open communication by actively and attentively listening to others.

• Demonstrate strong skills, knowledge and expertise in service delivery.

• Model professional, ethical and culturally sensitive behaviour and consistently apply those standards to yourself and others. 

Mandatory Requirement

Class C driver's license

 

Applications to remain current for 12 months

Job Ad Reference: QLD/611269/24

Closing Date: Friday, 10 January 2025

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Last updated
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