Operations Officer

Are you a seasoned administrative professional? Do you enjoy working in a high-paced environment? Join our team today and support the provision of invaluable housing to our Defence personnel.

Multiple vacancies exist for this opportunity with applications welcomed from Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Title:Operations Officer

Level: DHA Level 5

Location: Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and Brisbane

Salary range: $85,366 - $92,763 per annum plus 15.4% superannuation

*Multiple positions vacant. 

About your team
The Service Delivery Group is responsible for meeting DHA’s delivery objectives for high quality housing services, including, provisioning, maintenance services, stock management, housing allocation and living-in accommodation booking services. The Property function is responsible for the delivery of Developments, Constructions, Acquisitions, Sales, Leasing, Upgrades and Heritage programs.

The Strategic Provisioning team is responsible for creating a long-term supply of newly constructed leased housing for members of the Australian Defence Force, to meet forecast provisioning targets.

About your contribution
In this role, you will be responsible for providing administrative and supplier support to deliver high volume leased housing across the country, under both short and long-term arrangements. You will achieve this through timely preparation of supplier agreements and deeds, Offers to Lease, Lease Agreements, assessing suppliers’ submitted plans for compliance and preparing property listings for promotion to investors. Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining and updating the team’s intranet pages, and general administrative tasks such as processing invoices.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• In-depth experience in the residential property market in sales or leasing, or in the development industry with specific emphasis on operational support to deliver team objectives.
• Demonstrated contract/lease administration experience within the residential or commercial property industry and ability to support delivery of business outcomes.
• Sound communication (verbal and written) skills with the ability to maintain positive working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders and staff.
• Strong technology skills in recording and processing information electronically, including use of web-based content management systems to edit intranets and websites.
• Highly developed organisational, analytical, problem solving and team collaboration skills together with sound judgement and strong attention to detail.
• The ability to effectively manage competing priorities and meet challenging deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to show initiative and contribute towards business improvements that enhance the operations of the team.

For further information regarding this role please refer to the Position Description within Defence Housing Australia's careers site (or below, if available).
Multiple vacancies
Two vacancies are available for this opportunity with applications welcomed from Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Order of Merit
Any merit pools established from this merit-based process will be valid for 18 months from the date of advertising. This merit pool may be used throughout this period to fill similar positions in the event positions become vacant.

How to apply
For further information including position description please visit https://careers.dha.gov.au/

*A 500-word one page pitch is required to apply for this role. 

The RecruitAbility scheme applies to this vacancy. For more information on the RecruitAbility scheme please visit the APSC’s page on RecruitAbility.

DHA is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome applications from across our community including, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those who identify as LGBTIQ+, ex-defence members, mature aged employees and carers.

Applications close
AEST 11:55pm Wednesday 10 April 2024.