Director

Description:

Your role within Housing and Homelessness Services will support the department to deliver essential housing and homelessness services to vulnerable Queenslanders.

The work you will do helps someone every day, and that means the world to us.

You will provide strategic leadership and management of the Office of the Deputy Director-General, with a particular focus on facilitating communication and liaison between the Office of the Director-General and minister’s office.

The Director will assist the department to achieve its vision through a performance driven and customer focused culture that delivers results, whilst displaying the core public sector values of customers first; ideas into action; unleash potential; be courageous; and empower people.

Reporting to the Deputy Director-General, this position will provide strong, effective, visionary leadership, innovative thinking and strategic advice to support the Housing and Homelessness Services Division, optimising use of available resources and establishing a culture of teamwork, transparency and openness while maintaining strong communication channels between the Office of Director-General and Minister's office.

This Position Will

• Foster and develop effective communication and liaison between the Office for Director-General and ministerial office to better understand the needs and expectations of the Director-General and Minister's Office.
• Partner with senior managers across divisions, providing authoritative advice and support to deliver high quality information to the Deputy Director-General, Office of Director-General and minister's office that supports the department's strategic objectives.
• Manage the coordination of the preparation of accurate and timely responses to ministerial office requests for information, including briefings relating to the department's activities.
• Provide strategic, consistent and timely advice to the Deputy Director-General, Office of the Director-General and Minister's office regarding contentious, timecritical or confidential matters.
• Coordinate the collection and integration of information and briefings from a variety of sources including the Assistant Director-General, General Manager and Executive Directors to provide the Deputy Director-General with an executive level consolidated briefing, recommendations and advice and maintain up-to-date knowledge of issues across the division's portfolio.
• Ensure the achievement of activities, including the ongoing development, implementation and review of strategies, policies and protocols, which appropriately support the Deputy Director-General.
• Plan, organise and manage the unit's responsibilities, including fostering a professional environment to encourage commitment, ethical behaviour, staff wellbeing, skills development, professional growth and continuous improvement.
  
  
  

Mandatory Requirement

• While there are no mandatory qualifications for this role, housing experience and knowledge will be highly regarded.
  
  
  

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Occupational group Executive