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$272,304 to $297,250 total remuneration payable
Your role
Homes NSW is leading critical work to expand social and affordable housing, reduce homelessness, and transform the housing system across the state. We are seeking an accomplished property, development or construction leader to oversee a significant portfolio of major social housing redevelopment projects. As Director, Delivery, you will drive complex, high‐value development programs, lead multi-disciplinary project teams, and work closely with government and industry partners to deliver impactful housing outcomes for communities across NSW.
What you'll do
As the Director, Delivery, you will:
* Lead the delivery of major social housing development projects, including estate renewals, complex redevelopment sites and multi ‐ year precinct programs, ensuring projects meet time, cost, quality and policy expectations.
* Provide expert strategic, technical and commercial advice on property development, master planning, subdivision, rezoning and construction feasibility across a large pipeline of work.
* Establish and lead integrated project teams and partnerships across government, industry and consultants to progress complex, sensitive and high ‐ profile initiatives.
* Develop investment strategies and business cases to secure government and private sector funding for major precincts and redevelopment programs.
* Lead a high ‐ performing team of senior development managers and technical specialists, ensuring strong governance, risk management, reporting and delivery discipline.
* Drive innovation in social housing design, construction and delivery models, including approaches to modern methods of construction and contemporary community ‐ focused design.
What we're looking for
* Professional background in engineering, architecture, construction management, or related fields or equivalent industry experience at senior project director level.
* Extensive development and construction delivery experience in large, complex residential redevelopment, estate renewal, or major mixed ‐ use precinct programs
* Deep technical expertise in development management, project management, program oversight, feasibility assessment, design management, and navigating planning processes for complex sites.
* Strong leadership capability, having led teams of project managers, delivery managers, and consultants responsible for large portfolios of work, with experience coaching staff, managing performance, and leading through change.
* Proven ability to manage risk, competing priorities and high ‐ stakes decisions, including contract management, commercial negotiations and resolving delivery challenges with clarity and confidence.
* High-level stakeholder and relationship skills, with a track record engaging senior government officials, councils, private developers, consultants and communities to progress major projects.
We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.
We do work that really matters
Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It's work that really matters.
Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).
Applications close Tuesday 7 April 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.
For more information about the role, the department or if you have a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Dylan Huke on 0484 362 936 or email at seniorexecutiverecruitment@dcj.nsw.gov.au .
Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.
Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.
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