- Full Time, Permanent Role
- Location: Sydney, NSW with Work from Home
- Salary starting from $150,000 + Super + NFP Salary Packaging Benefits
- Salary dependant upon skills and experience
- Make a meaningful difference to the lives of Australians in need
Life at Mission Australia
When you join the team at Mission Australia, you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values, we advocate for a fairer Australia, to meet the growing needs of people across the country. Together we’re building hope and possibility for all.
Find out more about us and our purpose.
Your opportunity
Join Mission Australia as a Project Manager supporting our Housing Growth portfolio, where you will lead business-focused projects linked to property development, refurbishments, fit‑outs, and infrastructure activity - this is not IT or systems delivery.
This role suits someone who understands the practicalities of planning, approvals, stakeholder engagement and risk management in a built‑environment context, and who can keep complex, multi‑stage property projects moving. You will work closely with Housing Growth, Finance, Legal teams and external partners to bring clarity, structure and momentum to our development pipeline, helping us expand and improve the places where our communities live and thrive.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Lead end‑to‑end project planning and delivery across multiple property‑related projects, including defining scope, timelines, deliverables and resource needs.
- Develop and maintain core project documentation such as project plans, schedules, governance papers, RAID logs, communication plans and risk registers.
- Manage multiple concurrent development projects across different lifecycle stages,
- Coordinate activities across internal business teams including Housing Growth, Finance and Legal and external partners to ensure alignment, progress and problem‑solving throughout the project lifecycle.
- Manage budgets, forecasts and financial reporting in partnership with the Mission Australia Finance, ensuring accurate tracking, compliance and timely updates.
- Identify risks, issues and roadblocks early, implement mitigation strategies, and ensure risks are escalated appropriately.
- Work with development managers to oversee and coordinate tasks related to property development, including technical development activities such as planning approvals, site investigations, authority consultations, design milestone management, and compliance tasks Prepare and present documentation for governance forums and stage‑gate approvals, ensuring decision‑makers have clear, concise information.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across government, internal teams and external partners ensuring expectations are managed and communication is transparent.
Requirements for success
- Strong project management methodology skills, including developing plans from limited initial information, coordinating timelines and maintaining documentation.
- Strong experience managing business‑focused projects supporting property development, infrastructure, social and affordable housing development for government bodies or Community Housing Providers with a proven record of delivering on time and within budget.
- Understanding of the end‑to‑end housing development lifecycle, including planning approvals, design phases, site investigations, construction stages and compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of the social and affordable housing sector, community services environments, or government‑funded development programs such as HAFF, with the ability to navigate sector‑specific requirements and the associated approval, compliance and reporting requirements.
- High risk awareness with the ability to identify, assess, escalate and mitigate risks across property‑related projects.
- Excellent communication skills, able to simplify technical or regulatory information for decision makers and keep diverse stakeholders engaged and informed.
- Strong financial capability, including managing budgets, forecasting, tracking spends and ensuring compliance with organisational financial and reporting standards.
Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check, qualifications, and referee checks, and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people.
Your benefits
To ensure our employees feel valued, empowered, and celebrated, we provide a range of employee benefits including:
- Rewarding work – every day you know you’re making a real difference
- Not-for-profit salary packaging, reducing your tax (details via AccessPay)
- Free external, confidential counselling and access to chaplaincy support
- Volunteering opportunities
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Extra leave including: Mission Australia Thank You Day & Work Anniversary Day off
Our culture
Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.
We prioritise the safety and wellbeing of everyone, both within our team and the individuals we serve.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment. We actively support and encourage people of all backgrounds; gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background, disability, religion, and sexual orientation to submit an application and aim to ensure that the recruitment and employee experience is as accessible and inclusive as possible. So, whoever you are, if you’re skilled and actively support our purpose and values, you would be welcome at Mission Australia.
If you live with disability and require support to submit your application, please email talentattraction@missionaustralia.com.au or visit our Careers page for additional contact details.
We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. For culturally safe support or assistance with your application, please contact us at Deadlycareers@missionaustralia.com.au
Find out more about a career with Mission Australia.
How to apply
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Applications are shortlisted as they are received. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered. Thank you
