Agency Description:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development (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 Team:

The Office of Development (OOD) leads the agency’s effort to create and preserve affordable housing as a critical part of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness in collaboration with other HPD offices as well as other city, state and federal agencies. The OOD is comprised of eight divisions that administer a range of programs. These divisions include New Construction Finance, Special Needs Housing, Housing Incentives, Building and Land Development Services (BLDS), Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation, Preservation Finance, Portfolio Management and Conversions, and Compliance and Enforcement.

The Division of Building and Land Development Services (BLDS) provides architectural, engineering, cost valuation, environmental planning, and construction support services to the various divisions within HPD’s Office of Development. BLDS is the largest division within the Office of Development with over 120 staff composed of seven units which include: the Bureau of New Construction Design Review Services, the Bureau of Preservation Design Review Services, the Bureau of Engineering, the Bureau of Construction Services, the Environmental Planning Unit, the Policy Unit, and the Program Management Unit.

As Deputy Director of Policy, you will work closely with the Director of Policy and support the Executive Office with the development and implementation of policy initiatives for BLDS to assure that the goals and objectives of the division and agency are met.

Your Role:

The Deputy Director of Policy will be a critical member of the Policy team within the Executive Office, which is responsible for policy development, data management and analytics, and process implementation for BLDS. The Policy team works with various teams in BLDS, as well as other teams in the agency, to support the housing production goals for the Office of Development under the Mayor’s “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness”.

Your Responsibilities:

• Support the Director of Policy, who works directly with the senior leadership team to develop written policies and procedures that focus on enhancing the productivity, efficiency, and coordination of BLDS’ services, as well as develop trainings on implementing new policies and procedures.

• Support the Director of Policy and work with other divisions within HPD to provide guidance on drafts of various local legislation that may impact the design and construction of affordable housing.

• Support the Director of Policy, who provides updates for the agency website and maintain e-lists of external development partners to provide policy materials and/or informational updates that affect design and/or construction requirements.

• Develop and enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and outcome-oriented performance metrics that highlight program successes and identify policy/process bottlenecks and vulnerabilities.

• Support the Director of Policy and work closely with the Director of Operations and Chief of Staff to continually evaluate the operations of the division and conduct analyses of productivity and performance to aide in making recommendations for operational and procedural changes.

• Utilize HPD databases such as Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) and dashboards to cross reference and analyze BLDS internal data.

• Assist with data analysis and requests, identifying potential policy and operational changes, and handle special projects associated with his or her portfolio.

Preferred skills

1. Background in Housing Development, Policy Development, Data Analytics, Design and Construction, or a related field.

2. Understand business and data processes to identify gaps or underlying issues, opportunities for efficiencies, and overlap with other business areas and information throughout the agency.

3. Use data to make policy and operational recommendations.

4. Efficiently communicate verbally and through memos, presentations, and other materials.

5. Has experience with advanced Excel at a minimum and GIS and Access preferred; experience with SharePoint, Python and Pandas, SAS, R, writing SQL queries or business intelligence tools is a plus.

6. Possess strong management and leadership skills, be self-motivated, work effectively with others, and be able to work in a fast-paced environment.

7. Able to negotiate with diverse technical specialists and apply sound judgment in technical matters.

9. Excellent writing, interpersonal, organizational, communication, leadership, and negotiation skills.

10. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, coordinate multiple projects, and deal with complex issues spanning multiple disciplines.

11. Candidate may be subject to a background investigation conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation.

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Deputy Director of Policy, Division of Building and Land Development Services