National Housing Advocacy Lead

• Full-time or minimum 4 days per week available for the right candidate
• Location: Canberra ACT with Work from Home Options
• Salary Starts from $130000 Super NFP Salary Packaging Benefits
• Salary is dependant on skills and experience

Life at Mission Australia

When you join the team at Mission Australia you become part of a community who are determined to end homelessness and ensure people in need can thrive. United by our Christian purpose and values we advocate for a fairer Australia to meet the growing needs of people across the country. Together were building hope and possibility for all.

Find out more about us and our purpose.

Your opportunity

At Mission Australia we believe every person deserves a safe stable home and we are committed to creating a future where secure housing is not a privilege but a foundation for thriving lives and stronger communities.

As our National Housing Advocacy Lead you will be at the heart of this mission shaping the national conversation on housing and driving highimpact advocacy that influences policy at every level of government. You will champion the voices of people and communities who rely on us build trusted relationships with key decisionmakers and help position Mission Australia as a leading force for meaningful housing reform.

In this role you will engage confidently across all sides of government while remaining strictly nonpartisan ensuring our advocacy is grounded in evidence integrity and the needs of the people we serve. While this position is based in the ACT we warmly welcome exceptional candidates from Sydney Melbourne or Brisbane who can travel frequently and work flexibly to lead this important work across Australia.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Understand Mission Australias housing priorities and ensure all advocacy work aligns with these goals.
• Lead review and maintain the National Housing Advocacy Strategy monitoring progress and identifying new advocacy opportunities.
• Prepare clear updates reports and advice for senior leaders committees and boards on housing policy and advocacy needs.
• Build and strengthen relationships with government representatives and key decisionmakers to advance housing priorities.
• Represent Mission Australia at meetings forums and sector events sharing insights and bringing back key information.
• Collaborate with sector partners peak bodies and campaigns to progress shared housing advocacy goals.
• Analyse housing policy and produce clear evidencebased materials such as submissions briefing papers and responses.
• Gather data case studies and insights from across services to strengthen advocacy messages and policy positions.

Requirements for success

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field such as government relations social housing business commerce finance or a related discipline.
• 35 years experience in advocacy government relations or policy work within the notforprofit housing or homelessness sectors.
• Strong understanding of housing and homelessness policy across federal state and territory systems.
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships with government stakeholders ministers offices peak bodies and sector partners.
• Excellent written communication skills including the ability to produce highquality policy analysis submissions and briefing papers.
• Strong verbal communication and stakeholderengagement capability with confidence representing the organisation in external forums.
• Ability to work autonomously manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a fastpaced evolving environment.
• Solid knowledge of the social and affordable housing landscape including the role of community housing providers.

Before starting work with us you will need to undertake a national police history check qualifications and referee checks and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people.

Your benefits

To ensure our employees feel valued empowered and celebrated we provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Rewarding work every day you know youre making a real difference
• Not-for-profit salary packaging reducing your tax (details via AccessPay)
• Free external confidential counselling and access to chaplaincy support
• Volunteering opportunities
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Extra leave including: Mission Australia Thank You Day & Work Anniversary Day off

Our culture

Our innovative and inclusive culture will ensure you feel valued at Mission Australia as you help Australians in need and develop in your career.

We prioritise the safety and wellbeing of everyone both within our team and the individuals we serve.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment. We actively support and encourage people of all backgrounds; gender age ethnicity race cultural background disability religion and sexual orientation to submit an application and aim to ensure that the recruitment and employee experience is as accessible and inclusive as possible. So whoever you are if youre skilled and actively support our purpose and values you would be welcome at Mission Australia.

If you live with disability and require support to submit your application please email or visit our Careers page for additional contact details.

We strongly encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. For culturally safe support or assistance with your application please contact us at

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Applications are shortlisted as they are received. Please apply as soon as possible to be considered. Thank you