Senior Housing Officer, Housing, Local Government, Planning and Public Works

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 building a diverse workforce that reflects the Queensland community. 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.

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
• Contribute to portfolio renewal plans and implementation of property developments.
• 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.
• 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:
• 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 and uncertainty.
• 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.
• Are able to 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 requirements:
• Class C driver's license.

Logan Housing Service Centre
2 x permanent positions.
1 x temporary until 29 March 2026 with possibility of extension.
1 x temporary until 30 June 2025 with possibility of extension.

Gold Coast Housing Service Centre
1 x temporary until 7 September 2025 with possibility of extension.
2 x temporary until 30 June 2025 with possibility of extension.

Bayside Housing Service Centre
1 x permanent position.
2 x temporary until 30 June 2025 with possibility of extension.

Ipswich Housing Service Centre
1 x permanent position.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.