Venture Housing Company (Venture) is a not-for-profit registered Tier 1 community housing provider, established in 2011. Venture’s vision is: “Thriving Residents and Connected Communities” and its Purpose is “Creating Futures through Affordable Housing.”

Venture is committed to making a significant contribution to the supply of affordable and social housing in the Northern Territory through acquiring or developing properties both independently and in partnership with Government, the private sector, developers and financial institutions.

Supported by a skilled based Board with robust governance structures, Venture has undergone significant growth and transformation, with remarkable achievements in recent years, including leading on several innovations: 300% growth in its owned and managed portfolio, and with plans underway to deliver more social and affordable homes for Venture’s ownership.

Having invested in, and achieved this growth, Venture is now well positioned for its next phase, which will focus on consolidation, operational excellence, continued capacity building of its systems and people to ensure long term sustainability in line with its Strategic Directions.

As Venture embarks on this leadership change, the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will lead and drive the strategic direction and vision of the organisation. You will be responsible for ensuring high quality and innovative service delivery that meets the quality, operational, contractual and financial targets of the organisation.

As the CEO your strong commercial business acumen and operational excellence will enable you to lead and oversee the day-to-day operations of the organisation to achieve optimum outcomes as well as effective use of human resources and business assets.

The successful candidate will have an impressive track record at senior leadership level building internal capability whilst steering and managing the operations and resources of a similar sized organisation. Candidates with a comprehensive understanding of the social and community housing sector will be held in high regard.

You will also have demonstrated strength in financial, operational and culture driven leadership and extensive experience of working directly to a Board, along with a high-level understanding of corporate governance and a Graduate or Post Graduate qualification in a business-related discipline in either human services, social policy or public administration.

If you are all of the above and passionate about the successful delivery of an organisation's vision and strategic plan and display a high degree of professionalism, integrity and ethical behaviour then we would like to hear from you.

Venture offers great benefits for all their staff including flexible working conditions, up to 6 week’s annual leave and various salary packaging options.

To be considered for this opportunity you must meet the above criteria, have Australian Citizenship or Permanent Residency status and currently hold or be willing to obtain the relevant clearances and checks that are essential for this role. Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

For a confidential discussion and more information contact Mark Williams on 0450 311272, for email enquiries and application submissions please forward in Word format to [email protected], using the subject line: Chief Executive Officer - Venture Housing Company enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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