Full time – Fixed Term Contract to 30 October 2025. Monday to Friday – 35 hour working week
Enjoy non-for-profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per year of your salary tax free plus an additional $2500 for meals, entertainment and accommodation.
Work with an experienced and collaborative team.
Access Health and Wellbeing programs including Employee Assistance Program- free confidential support for your family
Paid Parental leave program and other great employee benefits
Great brand new office location, close to public transport
What we do
St George Community Housing (SGCH) provides sustainable, safe, and affordable housing as the foundation for our customers to connect to opportunities and build their communities.With a business head and a social heart, we deliver together with passion and purpose, guided by our values. Recognised as Employer of Choice (Public Sector and Not For Profit) at the 2022 Australian Business Awards, at SGCH you can realise your potential, whilst being supported to balance and achieve.
About the Housing Pathways Officer role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Housing Pathways Officer to join our Customers – Services team on a full-time, fixed-term contract to 30 October 2025.This role will be based between our Liverpool and Bonnyrigg offices with travel to other SGCH offices (including Fairfield and Riverwood) as required.
As a SGCH Housing Pathways Officer, you are the first point of contact for people seeking social housing assistance, providing responsive services to people who have immediate, and long-term housing needs. Your goal is to achieve sustainable tenancies as a foundation for opportunity, more sustainable homes in thriving communities and a vibrant sustainable business in the work you do everyday.
The work of a SGCH Housing Pathways Officer is to support vulnerable people to apply for and access the range of NSW Government social housing products that are available including social and affordable housing, private rental assistance and temporary accommodation. You ensure that vacant social housing properties are allocated to eligible households in a timely, fair and transparent manner in accordance with SGCH and NSW Government Housing Pathways policies and procedures.
You also work with social housing tenants who are seeking to transfer to other social housing properties that better meet their housing needs.
About you (essential requirements)
To succeed in the role, you will have the below key attributes:
Understanding of NSW Government’s Housing Pathways system, policies and available types of housing assistance
Understanding of specialist homelessness service system
Experience working with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, including vulnerable people experiencing homelessness, rough sleepers, people managing mental health issues, experiencing domestic and family violence, people with disability, young people, older people
Good verbal and written communication skills including interpersonal skills
Self-motivated with a learning mindset, with experience working autonomously
Current NSW drivers license
The recruitment process may include interviews and other forms of skills and behavioural assessments. The appointment of a suitable candidate will be subject to pre-employment screening which may include reference checks, a National Police Check, Health Assessment, etc.
Applications for this role will be reviewed as received; therefore, we encourage you to submit your interest at your earliest.
Please note we may establish a Talent Pool from this process.
How To Apply
Please refer to the full Housing Pathways Officer position description for further details including the essential criteria.
If this sounds like you,please send a cover letter addressing the essential criteriaanda copy of your up-to-date CV using the form below.
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