Special Projects Advisor for the Office of the Commissioner Job at NYC Careers
About the Agency:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.
HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness, Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion—the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.
Your Responsibilities:
As the Special Projects Advisor for the Office of the Commissioner, you will perform duties including, but not limited to the following:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city's housing, and diversity and strength in the city’s neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.
- We maintain building and resident safety and health
- We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
- We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.
HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness, Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion—the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.
Your Responsibilities:
As the Special Projects Advisor for the Office of the Commissioner, you will perform duties including, but not limited to the following:
- The Special Projects Advisor will serve as senior member for the Office of the Commissioner
- Liaison with advocacy and stakeholder groups, developing new relationships and fostering existing relationships; helping to lead community-based initiatives, share information, and collect Feedback to gauge community concerns; devising strategies to address community concerns around agency services and responsibilities to meeting our core mission
- Work closely with regional counterparts to coordinate on advancing the agency’s housing goals
- will act as the Commissioner’s liaison to AND/OR directly project management of HPD’s involvement in certain city-wide efforts that relate directly to cross agency policy and operational work plans (BLAST, the FDM goals, the Blueprint, the senior cabinet, the children cabinet, the climate action plan, the office reuse taskforce, the housing supply working group, the customer experience work, and several other cross/agency-city workstreams recommendations)
- will manage cross-office discussions around new initiatives as they come through are agency and our engagement on numerous specific hot topics as needed (example: Migrant Housing response, emergency housing re-visited)
- will oversee and help design plans to meet fundraising goals for a number of HPD priorities (capacity enhancements, professional development investments, program implementation).
Minimum Qual Requirements
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of experience in one or more of the following areas: community organization, social work, urban development projects, real estate, public administration, or a related field, of which two years must have been in a field directly related to neighborhood improvement such as housing, community organization, urban renewal or planning, or real estate. A Law Degree or graduate work in an appropriate field may be substituted for up to two years of the general experience required; or
2. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1", including part-time and/or volunteer experience.
2. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1", including part-time and/or volunteer experience.
Preferred Skills
- Ability to perform complex tasks and manage multiple projects with limited supervision and in a timely manner;
- Experience working across various levels of an organization, building trust and fostering collaboration;
- Strong verbal and written communications;
- Proven ability to prioritize, be assertive, detailed oriented, self-starting and a willingness to take ownership and follow through;
- Must have strong analytical, management and financial skills;
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Outlook);
- Ability to work in fast paced environment.
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Public Svc Loan Forgiveness
As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.
Work Location
100 Gold Street New York, NY 10038
Residency Requirement
New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.
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