• Enjoy above award pay with salary packaging, wellbeing program and other benefits on offer
• Work with a supportive and collaborative team
• Make an impact every day

What we do

SGCH provide sustainable, safe and affordable housing as the foundation for our customers to connect to opportunities and build their communities.

About our team

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 NFP) at the 2022 Australian Business Awards, at SGCH you can realise your potential, whilst being supported to balance and achieve.

About the role

Based between our Hurstville and Bonnyrigg Offices and reporting to the Lead, Housing Pathways, the Housing Pathways Officer supports vulnerable people to apply and access the range of NSW Government social housing products including social housing, private rental assistance, and temporary accommodation. This role is a contract to October 2024 covering parental leave.

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.

Integral to success is the ability to provide excellent service to customers, and maintain a safety culture.

About you

To be considered for the role, you will have:

• 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
• A valid NSW driver’s licence.

If this sounds like you, please view the attached position description for more details on the role and what’s on offer.

SGCH is an Equal Opportunity employer. Diversity makes us stronger and we want an organisation that reflects the communities we serve.

SGCH has a Safety at Work: Vaccination Policy which makes vaccination against COVID-19 a condition of employment / engagement for all workers unless an exemption is granted under the policy. This condition also extends to maintaining vaccination through booster shots, if required in line with any public health orders or if SGCH assesses this is required to meet its duties under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW).

A position description is attached.