Do you want to use your skills to make a real difference?

Queensland Shelter, a Peak Body for Affordable Housing and Homelessness, is currently recruiting for a Project Officer to join our passionate, high-performing Sector Capacity Building team. Reporting to the Team Leader Sector Capacity, this role will be based at our Brisbane office in Spring Hill, on the CBD fringe.

We are looking for an experienced full time Project Officer to support training and engagement with stakeholders in Queensland’s affordable housing and homelessness sector (“Sector”) and government. This training and engagement focuses on building the Sector capacity and promoting affordable housing and homelessness solutions.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an agile and flexible team player, responsive to diverse work requests and varied priorities.
• be a strong project manager, who has demonstrated success in delivering complex projects on time
• be knowledgeable on the Sector and the challenges it faces.
• Be excited by an opportunity to build the capacity of the Sector through engagement, workforce / organisational development and by contributing to policy development
• Have a positive attitude, and proven interpersonal and writing skills.
• Actively contribute to a positive team and organisational culture.

Key responsibilities

• Participate in the identification of initiatives to build capacity and capability of the Sector workforce consistent with Q Shelter’s funding agreements.
• Lead Sector Capacity Building Projects
• Prepare Grant funding applications and manage reporting requirements for Grants.
• Develop, manage and report on multiple Sector Capacity Projects.
• Provide support/lead engagement events and training activities.
• Design and conduct Sector surveys, including data collection and analysis.
• Contribute to research and preparation of Sector / Government policy proposals.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of three-years’ experience in human services, preferably in the Sector
• Tertiary qualifications in human services, business or other relevant discipline
• Understanding of, or the ability to quickly acquire understanding of, the operating environment, context and governance requirements for community housing and homelessness providers in Queensland and the not-for-profit sector
• Experience in using Microsoft applications, event and training software
• Experience using Learning Management Systems and WordPress will be highly regarded

This position is: 1.0 FTE, or 76 hours per fortnight.

Q Shelter offers a flexible work environment. The role falls within the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award and is graded level 5.1. Q Shelter employees receive five weeks annual leave per year (pro-rata for part time) and a paid Christmas shutdown period. Q Shelter staff also have access to not-for-profit salary packaging, which increases their take home pay.

Q Shelter staff are expected to work within a culturally safe framework and actively contribute to the implementation of Q Shelter’s emerging Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.

About Q Shelter

Q Shelter is a peak body for the Queensland affordable housing and homelessness Sector. It plays an important role delivering projects to assist in the implementation of the Queensland Government Housing Strategy 2017-27 and the Queensland Housing and Homelessness Action Plan 2021-25.

It is a member-based association, overseen by a Management Committee, focused on:

• building the Sector’s capacity, to deliver evidence-based solutions to housing and homelessness needs;
• influencing public policy and programs, to achieve housing and homelessness solutions; and
• investing in its owns resources and systems, as a base to improve its services to the Sector.

A position description, incorporating the key selection criteria, is attached.

Q Shelter is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.

We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role. Q Shelter is currently developing an Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan to guide and strengthen our approach to inclusion of First Nations’ Peoples.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Q Shelter on (07) 3831 5900.