Community Cohesion Officer

**Community Cohesion Officer -Metro Sydney**

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

More than just a housing organisation, Hume Housing want to build strong, cohesive communities with positive social outcomes. This role is a critical part of that strategy and is grounded by Social Justice Principles equity, access, participation and rights. This is a full-time role with a large customer and stakeholder contact component. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to;
- Project management - which includes being responsible for a small budget
- Working with customers to improve: Employment, training & learning

Digital inclusion
Physical & mental well-being
Community Connections
- Identifying grant opportunities for the organisation
- Building and developing strong relationships with community partnerships

**WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOU**

You are an exceptional communicator who is at ease with a broad range of audiences and situations. With effective time management skills, you have the ability to forward plan, manage competing projects and priorities and work to deadlines.

You will be representing Hume and fostering partnerships across the LGA, so to be successful in this role, you will have/be:

- Experience in similar community development position
- Driven and operate with integrity, with a customer and solutions focus.
- A great social awareness and understanding of social and cultural differences is critical.
- Experienced in community development or social housing.
- Experience in events or project management
- Qualifications in Social Sciences or equivalent (desirable)
- NSW Driver’s license and comprehensively insured vehicle

**WHAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO**

We are diverse, dedicated, fun and flexible. Most of all we are customer focused and welcome those who share our values and our purpose of providing people with opportunities to prosper.

Your contribution is rewarded and celebrated with great opportunities to build a career in an exciting, growing sector. We also offer.
- Above Award salaries
- 35 hour working week
- Flexible work practices
- Long service leave after 5 years
- Salary packaging
- Career development opportunities
- Access to EAP Counselling Service

**WHY WORK FOR HUME COMMUNITY HOUSING?**
- Our purpose is to create opportunities for people to prosper._

As a leading community housing provider Hume houses 1 in every 1000 NSW residents. We own and/or manage over 4,500 affordable rental homes, throughout metropolitan Sydney and regional NSW.

We build new properties, manage tenancies for owners and provide services and support to meet our diverse customers and community’s needs.

From essential workers to young people, families, people with disability, senior citizens, people experiencing homelessness and women fleeing family violence, we create opportunities for all our customers to prosper.

We work in collaboration with our customers and communities, listen to what they need so we can ensure our services are right and they have the best experience. It’s important that our customers stay at the heart of what we do, and why we do it.

You spend a lot of your waking hours at work, so we want to give you a workplace where you can really be your values-aligned self and feel appreciated. We want you to have the best work life balance you can, in your role.

At Hume, we know how to have fun, celebrate successes and are committed to providing a thriving organisational experience to our employees, where you too can prosper.

**New Opportunities**

Hume’s 3 strategic pillars centre around, growth, social impact and being a thriving organisation. Hume is a profit for purpose organisation and as such must ensure that our structure, systems and processes are as effective and efficient as they can be, whilst ensuring we optimise our social impact.

This strategic ambition, along with new growth opportunities is creating new exciting career opportunities.

**OUR TEAM**

We employ professionals across corporate services, real estate services, property development and construction, asset management, customer services, tenancy management and stakeholder management and partnerships. We also employ social impact specialists experienced in case management, neighbourhood programs and community initiatives all of which provide our customers with opportunities to prosper.

We are a diverse, dedicated, commercially minded and customer focussed organisation. We also believe that a good employee experience directly translates into a good customer experience.

If you’re passionate about social justice and consider access to safe sustainable and affordable housing a basic human right, there has never been a more exciting time to join our award-winning organisation.

**We are **_**Champions of change | Creators of connectivity | Builders of resilience and Determined to succeed**_
- Hume Community Housing acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the Traditional Custodians of thi