Senior Director, Housing

Description

• Establish and lead the planning, design, and staged delivery of a complex mixed-use precinct from the ground up, ensuring alignment with government economic and housing policy objectives.
• Ensure effective and proactive engagement with the community and stakeholders, working with Corporate Communications to develop tailored communication and engagement strategies for each project phase.
• Provide high-level strategic, commercial, and policy advice to executive leadership and government stakeholders.
• Confidently navigate competing interests across stakeholders and lead the negotiation of complex outcomes involving divergent views and priorities.
• Shape and lead the strategic vision for a major, multi-decade, precinct-scale mixed-use project aligned with Victorian Government priorities.
• Support the planning, management, and delivery of the project’s financial targets to contribute to the organisation’s financial performance.
• Build and lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team to deliver complex project outcomes across multiple workstreams.
• Establish and lead a new project aligned with the Victorian Government’s Housing Statement to deliver housing outcomes for the community.
• Represent Development Victoria publicly as a leader in innovation, sustainability, and precinct-scale development, reinforcing its role as government’s developer of choice.
• Drive the advancement of delivery frameworks that integrate housing, employment, infrastructure, and placemaking outcomes at scale.

Requirements

• Successful people, strategic and commercial management skills, consistent with organisational goals, objectives, and government policy
• Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.
• Experience navigating complex construction and property markets and working collaboratively and innovatively to deliver tangible value for money outcomes.
• Tertiary degree or higher qualification in property, construction, architecture, design, engineering, project management or related fields.
• Experience working with a broad range of stakeholders to deliver housing outcomes with the right balance between policy outcomes and commercial delivery.
• An understanding of state and local government economic, planning, and other policy drivers, including the Victorian government’s Housing Statement, and their impact on successful delivery of housing projects.
• A proven track record in the timely establishment of strategy and delivery of greenfield housing projects spanning land development, house and townhouse construction and medium density apartment delivery.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Technology salary sacrifice
• Purchase leave
• Novated leasing
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave
• Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance
• Employee referral bonuses
• Modern onsite facilities
• Professional development opportunities available including;
• Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance