Development Manager - Portfolio Delivery

Department: Portfolio Delivery; Parramatta; On-site; AUD 133,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Homes NSW, a division of the Department of Communities and Justice NSW, is seeking a qualified professional to support delivery of residential projects across NSW. You will oversee lifecycle management, budgeting, risk, and stakeholder engagement to ensure project objectives are met.

The role involves applying modern construction methods, planning, procurement, and financial control to deliver urban renewal and housing programs. NSW residents benefit from this dedicated team within DCJ.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in construction management, property development or a relevant business discipline.
• Knowledge of property, construction and development processes.
• Intermediate project management skills.
• Willingness to learn MMC and alternative planning pathways.

Responsibilities

• Manage a range of residential projects through the project lifecycle from inception to completion, ensuring effective planning, stakeholder management, and operative financial and risk management processes, to guide project delivery in meeting business objectives.
• Deliver project outcomes to ensure all projects are scoped, planned, costed, resourced and aligned with program objectives and client needs.
• Manage governance arrangements to ensure cost, time and quality of planning and approvals.
• Establish and proactively manage positive working relationships with project stakeholders
• Manage risks to projects and initiatives, and develop, communicate and implement risk mitigation plans and strategies.
• Prepare and contribute to a range of strategic and operational documentation, including briefing papers, discussion papers, reports, submissions and responses to provide and seek information to project stakeholders.
• Ensuring all projects meet milestones, achieve objectives, are managed within budget given the high-volume work environment and demands resulting from tight timeframes and competing priorities.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

MMC familiarity

Education

Construction management degree

Property development background

Job description

$133,348 - $146,945 a year

Casual/Temporary, Full time

1d ago , from Department of Communities and Justice NSW

Employment type – Temporary, Fulltime (35 hours per week) till June 2028

Salary – Grade 9/10 ($133,348 - $146,945), plus superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

Homes NSW is a division of the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ). It brings together the housing and homelessness functions of the DCJ, the NSW Land and Housing Corporation, Aboriginal Housing Office and key worker housing functions from across government, all under one roof.

Homes NSW leads work to deliver more social and affordable housing, end the cycle of homelessness, and deliver quality public housing to our 262,000 tenants across NSW.

The purpose of the role is to support the delivery of a range of residential projects, including secondary dwellings, dual occupancies, medium density & large-scale urban renewal, with projects delivered through traditional and modern methods of construction. The role also includes financial and economic justification, planning, procurement, development, project management and financial control of projects.

What you’ll do

• Manage a range of residential projects through the project lifecycle from inception to completion, ensuring effective planning, stakeholder management, and operative financial and risk management processes, to guide project delivery in meeting business objectives.
• Deliver project outcomes to ensure all projects are scoped, planned, costed, resourced and aligned with program objectives and client needs.
• Manage governance arrangements to ensure cost, time and quality of planning and approvals.
• Establish and proactively manage positive working relationships with project stakeholders
• Manage risks to projects and initiatives, and develop, communicate and implement risk mitigation plans and strategies.
• Prepare and contribute to a range of strategic and operational documentation, including briefing papers, discussion papers, reports, submissions and responses to provide and seek information to project stakeholders.
• Ensuring all projects meet milestones, achieve objectives, are managed within budget given the high-volume work environment and demands resulting from tight timeframes and competing priorities.

What we’re looking for

• Tertiary qualifications in construction management, property development or a relevant business discipline or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of property, construction and development processes.
• Intermediate project management skills and experience.
• A willingness and aptitude to learn about Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and alternative planning pathways.
• The role may involve travel both locally and regionally, including overnight travel, as required by the business and/or directed.

Download the role description.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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.

Applications close Sunday 29 November 2026 at 11:59pm AEDST

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Gilead Chen at ***********@homes.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.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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