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Housing insecurity and homelessness impacts tens of thousands of Queenslanders every day.

Your skills and passion can help more people find homes.

Explore career opportunities

A career with impact

Queensland’s housing and homelessness sector offers limitless career opportunities for passionate and skilled individuals like you. From frontline work supporting people experiencing homelessness, to administrative and policy development roles in social and affordable housing – you may be surprised at the variety of career pathways.

Why Choose this sector

Why settle for a job that merely pays the bills when you can have a career that feeds your soul? The housing and homelessness sector offers more than just employment; it offers purpose and opportunity.
  • Diverse roles with purpose and opportunity
  • Flexible working options and salary packaging
  • Collaboration across public, private and not-for-profit sectors
  • Meaningful work that changes lives.

How working in this sector can help change lives

Housing insecurity and homelessness impacts tens of thousands of Queenslanders every day. Your skills and passion can help more people find homes.

Transitioning from Corporate to Not-for-Profit

Ready to make a difference in your career? Hear inspiring stories from professionals who transitioned from the corporate world to the housing and homelessness sector.

Launch Your Career in Housing and Homelessness

Learn about career paths and how your skills and passion can be directly applied to Queensland’s housing and homelessness sector.

Transforming Challenges into Change: Careers in Housing with Lived Experience

Unlock the potential of your personal journey through a career in the housing and homelessness sector. This video showcases the transformative stories of individuals who have faced housing instability and homelessness and are now pivotal contributors to the field.

Opportunities in Not-for-Profit Housing and Homelessness

Enjoying flexible work options, parents returing to work bring unique skills to the housing instability and homelessness.

Opportunities in Not-for-Profit Housing and Homelessness

Enjoying flexible work options, parents returing to work bring unique skills to the housing instability and homelessness.

Turning Challenges into Change

People with lived experience of housing need and homelessness bring unique and valuable qualities to the sector. Hear from those who’ve lived this journey and are now pivotal contributors to the field.

What you can offer

Our sector relies on dedicated, skilled and passionate individuals like you to help connect people in need with safe and sustainable housing solutions. Working to end homelessness and housing insecurity involves all kinds of skills, vocations and career paths. Whether you’re a parent returning to work, a student craving meaningful and diverse career options, a social worker seeking a change of scenery or a real estate agent looking to give back – there’s a place for you.

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Frequently asked questions

HomeNow is a campaign promoting career pathways in Queensland’s housing and homelessness sector. HomeNow is delivered by sector peak bodies Homelessness Queensland and Q Shelter, under the Workforce Connect Fund, funded by the Queensland Government.

HomeNow showcases the many rich and rewarding career pathways that exist in our unique sector, to attract more dedicated, passionate and skilled people to a sector they may not have previously considered.

The HomeNow campaign consists of a website, videos, social media accounts, appearances at key career and training events, and regular email updates to interested subscribers.

One of the best things about our sector is the variety of roles available, which all contribute to making a difference to people experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness. Many roles involve working within communities to provide direct support to find secure and sustainable housing for people, while there’s also a whole range of opportunities behind the scenes in other disciplines and pathways.
Frontline and direct service delivery roles
  • Community housing tenancy and property/asset management
  • Initial assessment and planning
  • Case management
  • Assertive outreach
  • Community development
  • Social work
  • Developing new homes and communities
  • Life and living skills support
  • Tenancy Sustainment
Other Support roles
  • Architecture
  • Initial assessment and planning
  • Property Development
  • Business Services: finance and administration
  • Human resources
  • Project Management Marketing and communication
  • Other Human Services roles
  • Research
With so many career pathways and organisations in Queensland’s housing and homelessness sector, there’s a wealth of paid, voluntary and work placement opportunities in the sector. Visit our Opportunities page to see current available roles and to contact organisations directly, and check back regularly to see new and updated listings.
You can also visit the Seek and Ethical Jobs websites to find other sector opportunities in Queensland.
Visit Seek VISIT ETHICAL JOBS

The great thing about working in housing and homelessness is the diverse variety of jobs and pathways available, which welcomes all backgrounds and skill sets. Depending on the specific role you’re interested in, you may not need a qualification or experience. Some frontline or specialist roles may require a certificate, diploma or degree, and there are a variety of pathways available through TAFE and university.

There’s never been a better time to gain a qualification in Community Services at TAFE, with Certificate III, IV and Diplomas offered under the Fee-Free TAFE courses program.

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Study Pathways – University
  • Social Work
  • Social Sciences​
  • Bachelor of Arts – Social Sciences​
  • Bachelor of Business​
  • Human Services​
  • Bachelor of Psychology ​
  • Bachelor of Mental Health​
  • Real Estate Registration​
Study Pathways – TAFE
  • Certificate IV in Housing ​
  • Certificate III in Community Services
  • Certificate IV in Community Services
  • Diploma of Community Services
  • Certificates and Diplomas in other specialities, such as
    business, project management,
    human resources, marketing,
    administration.
It takes a mixture of skill, passion and dedication to work in this field, and the diversity of roles available means all kinds of skills are needed and have their place. Given the nature of the sector being support services, people who have strong ‘soft’ skills particularly thrive in this field. Whether your brain is built for business and you thrive on numbers and data, you’re great with planning and organising projects, you’re a creative wordsmith or designer, or you love working directly with people – some of the key soft skills or traits most people in the sector are strong in include:  
  • A sense of compassion
  • Creativity
  • Resilience
  • Strong communication
  • Problem-solving
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership
  • Resourcefulness
  • Adaptability.
Even if you’re brand new to housing and homelessness, community services, or not-for-profit sectors, you’ll likely have transferable skills and relevant experience that will help you in your career pathway in this field. The diversity of jobs and skillsets required means there’s a place for just about everyone. If you have a genuine drive and passion to make a difference for marginalised and vulnerable people in the community, and you want to be part of a movement that ensures everyone in Queensland has safe, secure and sustainable housing – this is the sector for you.

HomeNow isn’t a job search website like Seek or Ethical Jobs. Instead, it promotes the diverse range of career pathways that exist in the housing and homelessness sector in Queensland, and shares stories from real people who work in the sector. 

Organisations in the sector can register to be featured on our Opportunities page as a general promotion of their organisation, allowing you to get to know what they do in the sector and explore potential career pathways. Please note there may not be specific roles available at any one time.

HomeNow and the project delivery organisations do not manage and are not responsible for the content of any third-party websites linked on this site.  For any specific opportunity enquiries, please contact the listed organisations directly.

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The HomeNow website and project is delivered by Q Shelter and Homelessness Queensland under the Workforce Connect Fund. This project is funded through the Workforce Connect Fund, powered by the Queensland Government’s Good people. Good jobs: Queensland Workforce Strategy 2022-2032.

HomeNow acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

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