Your role within Social and Affordable Housing Growth will support the department to lead the delivery of enhanced housing outcomes through an integrated approach to overall supply. The work you will do helps someone every day, and that means the world to us.

Through partnerships, The Social Housing Delivery Office provide and influence the provision of safe, secure, affordable and appropriate housing to the people of Queensland, and the building of vibrant and connected precincts and communities in which they live.

Job details

The Senior Property Officer, Redevelopment and Renewal play a key role in supporting the Principal Property Officer to optimise the potential of the existing property portfolio. This involves identifying redevelopment opportunities and planning precinct renewal projects. In this role, you will collaborate with Councils and Housing Service Centres to shape and implement portfolio strategies and objectives. Your responsibilities will include contributing to decisions on divestment, reinvestment and redevelopment, as well as working closely with Housing Service Centres to coordinate and facilitate tenant relocations.

What you will be doing:
• Identifying and assessing opportunities for redevelopment, property acquisition and private sector initiatives to drive the uplift and alignment of the social housingportfolio, ensuring optimised social housing outcomes, including the assessment of the planning scheme proposal impacts and the engagement and management of service providers.
• Support the development and delivery of portfolio strategies, programs and projects for the effective management of a major property portfolio that maximises the useful life of a property asset and that identifies realignment opportunities that optimises portfolio performance.
• Conduct property market research and analysis to inform decision making and the provision of advice to stakeholders and management in relation to the effective management of the portfolio and sales program.
• Use property expertise, social housing business knowledge and the support of corporate systems to inform/advise senior management regarding asset strategies, property sales, vacant dwellings, redevelopment sites and upgrades.
• Prepare correspondence, briefings, reports, information papers and submissions and other relevant documentation as required.
• Supporting and helping 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 Individual Contributor stream of the Leadership competencies for Queensland framework to understand the expectations for this role.

The skills you will need include being able to:
• Describe the vision for the work area and able to describe how their work contributes to organisational objectives.
• Decide on a course of action to achieve objectives without needing step by step instructions.
• Seek clarity of tasks, asks questions, knows what is expected and set priorities and organises self to meet deadlines.
• Communicate in a clear and concise manner both written and verbal and your ability to build networks with peers and work collaboratively with others.
• Rigorously research and analysis information relevant to tasks and shows judgement in decision making.
• Evidence specialist knowledge, skills and experience in valuation practice and strategic asset management.

Mandatory Requirement:
• A current driver's licence is required.
• Although not mandatory, a property related degree in either Property Economics, Valuation, Engineering, Project Management or Quantity Surveying is highly desirable.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

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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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• applicant-guideHPWNov2024 (PDF, 248KB)
  
  
  676576 26 Role Description v1 (PDF, 247KB)