Demonstrated experience in property development or project management.
Relevant tertiary qualifications in design, property development, or a related discipline.
Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and report-writing skills.
Experience managing project budgets, risks, consultants, and delivery milestones.
Commitment to Launch Housing’s values and its mission to end homelessness.
Must have the right to work in Australia.
Must hold a valid Working with Children Check and have a satisfactory criminal history record check.
Responsibilities
Manage the delivery of social and affordable housing developments and asset redevelopment projects.
Contribute to project feasibility, procurement strategies, budgets, tender processes, and funding requirements.
Coordinate consultants, builders, and external partners to achieve quality design and construction outcomes.
Manage project risks, costs, milestones, and reporting, ensuring issues are identified and addressed early.
Build strong stakeholder relationships and support planning approvals, project completion, and handover to operational teams.
Salary Range: 120000 to 140000 (Currency: AUD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)
Why join Launch Housing
Launch Housing is an independent Melbourne based community organisation passionately committed to ending homelessness. From providing high quality housing and an innovative range of support, education and employment services, we bring solutions to homelessness under one roof for thousands at risk of, or experiencing the crisis and trauma of homelessness. With over 400 staff working across 16 locations in metropolitan Melbourne, we combine direct action with advocacy, research and innovation to drive widespread change.
Our people are the backbone of our organisation and supporting their wellbeing and professional development is critical to our ability to help our clients and the community. We value lived experience and diversity in our staff, and provide high-quality training & supervision, wellbeing days, access to an Employee Assistance Program and much much more to ensure your career with us is fulfilling.
Don’t just walk past homelessness. Join the solution.
Our permanent and fixed-term employee benefits include:
• Contributing to useful and rewarding work and giving something back to the community
• Wellbeing days, ceremonial leave, carers leave and study leave
• Flexible working arrangements
• Purchased leave
• 17.5% leave loading
• 8 weeks’ gender neutral paid parental leave after 12 months of service for both the primary and secondary carer
• Training and career growth opportunities across Launch Housing
• A portion of your income can be tax-free by salary packaging your personal expenses
• Additional tax-free salary packaging on dining and accommodation expenses
• Positive, supportive and progressive work environment
Housing Solutions Portfolio
Launch Housing faces an unprecedented opportunity to partner with all levels of government and institutional capital to overcome Australia’s rental and housing affordability crisis. With an ambitious plan to build more housing, the Housing Solutions portfolio is responsible for end-to-end property portfolio accountabilities; property development, enterprise-wide asset management, tenancy services and real estate management services through our award-winning social enterprise HomeGround Real Estate. At a federal level the introduction of Housing Australia and the new National Housing Accord alongside the State Government Big Housing Build means there are now mechanisms available to facilitate financing to deliver a pipeline of social and affordable housing. Local Government contributions such as land and density approvals are a key feature that support growth.
Launch Housing has evidenced capacity to develop new homes and over the last 2 years, has delivered 118 new housing outcomes, including the multi award winning supported housing project at Viv’s Place which is now home to 60 women and over 100 children who are victim/survivors of family violence. We have a further pipeline of 159 homes committed to deliver by 2026 and are exploring new partnerships to increase supply in response to the housing crisis faced by many Victorians.
The Development Manager role is aligned to a strategic housing growth strategy to deliver more housing, working within a team on the design and delivery of new homes.
About the Role:
This is an opportunity to apply your property development and project management expertise to projects that deliver meaningful social impact. You’ll manage projects from planning and procurement through to construction, completion and handover, working closely with internal teams, consultants, builders, government partners and other key stakeholders.
You’ll play a key role in delivering quality housing projects that meet agreed budgets, timeframes and standards, while navigating complex development pathways and managing project risks.
Permanent, full-time role (76 hours per fortnight) based at Collingwood.
What you'll be doing:
Manage the delivery of social and affordable housing developments and asset redevelopment projects.
Contribute to project feasibility, procurement strategies, budgets, tender processes and funding requirements.
Coordinate consultants, builders and external partners to achieve quality design and construction outcomes.
Manage project risks, costs, milestones and reporting, ensuring issues are identified and addressed early.
Build strong stakeholder relationships and support planning approvals, project completion and handover to operational teams.
About you:
You’re an experienced property development or project management professional who enjoys bringing complex projects to life. You combine strong commercial and analytical skills with a collaborative approach, sound judgement and a commitment to delivering quality outcomes.
You’ll bring:
Demonstrated experience in property development or project management.
Relevant tertiary qualifications in design, property development or a related discipline.
Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and report-writing skills.
Experience managing project budgets, risks, consultants and delivery milestones.
A commitment to Launch Housing’s values and our mission to end homelessness.
To apply for this opportunity, please click on "Apply for this job" button. Please submit a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria and your CV.
For a copy of the position description please contact us at [email protected].
Launch Housing offers a wide range of career opportunities and employs a diverse range of talent. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons to apply! We acknowledge, respect and celebrate Aboriginal cultures, languages, connections to Country and heritage, customs and practices. We're committed to support Aboriginal peoples to obtain genuine and fulfilling career with us!
Launch Housing is a dog-friendly organisation, which allows dog owners to bring them in some of our sites, please contact the relevant Hiring Manager if you have any questions or concerns prior to your interview.
If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know at [email protected].
Launch Housing is committed to being a child safe organisation and has zero tolerance to child abuse. Our hiring process involves rigorous screening of applicants. All of our people including students, contractors and volunteers must hold a valid Working with Children Check and satisfactory criminal history record check.
Launch Housing is an Equal Opportunity employer and supports accessible working arrangements for all. This includes people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, women, and people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex or queer. We acknowledge Lived Experience as a unique expertise and encourage people with a Lived Experience of Homelessness to apply. All applicants must have the right to work in Australia.
Launch Housing is working to become more trauma informed and as a leading employer in the homelessness sector, it is important to let you know that you will hear stories of distress, hardship, trauma, or violence when working with us. We encourage you to reflect on how this may impact you when considering applying for the role.