City of New York

Job Description

About the Agency:

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 leads the agency’s effort to develop affordable housing, through new construction and preservation of existing affordable housing. The Housing Incentives division offers tax credits, tax incentives, and zoning bonuses in order to facilitate affordable housing development. Housing Incentives’ Compliance and Enforcement division investigates and takes enforcement action against building owners receiving these benefits who fail to comply with applicable state and local laws, codes, and regulations, as well as agency regulatory agreements.

Housing Incentives is composed of four units:

• Tax Incentives
• Tax Credits
• Inclusionary Housing
• Compliance and Enforcement

Your Impact:

As an Assistant Project Manager for Housing Incentives’ Compliance and Enforcement (C&E) division, you will assist in investigating and taking enforcement action against building owners receiving benefits who fail to comply with applicable state and local laws, codes, and regulations, as well as agency regulatory agreements. You will be a part of major compliance efforts, including those focusing on violations of rent registration and affordability requirements, resulting in more affordable and rent-stabilized apartments for New Yorkers.

Your Role:

Your role will be to assist the division in ensuring compliance of buildings with valuable benefits, under the direction of Compliance & Enforcement attorneys, as well as the Assistant Commissioner of C&E. The division’s investigations regularly involve coordination with other city and state agencies. You will serve as a team player, including by nurturing productive relationships with other staff and with C&E’s internal and external partners.

You will contribute to investigations of non-compliance with the tax programs and regulatory agreements that are within the purview of Housing Incentives such as the 421-a, J-51, 485-x, 467-m, and Inclusionary Housing as well as actions resulting from these investigations.

Your Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Project-manage cases from beginning to end of respective compliance initiatives.
• Monitor the progress of cases, including case statuses and dependencies, and ensure compliance milestones are reached.
• Assist the Division in reviewing and analyzing complaints of non-compliance from within HPD, including the Tax Incentives Programs, and from outside HPD.
• Assist the Division in collecting facts from public sources, and occasionally conduct investigations in the field and drafting reports and findings.
• Coordinate with all stakeholders of project dockets, including but not limited to property owners, tenants, internal HPD units and other City agencies, to resolve issues with applications.
• Perform analyses and reviews in relation to non-compliance with Housing Incentives program requirements to maintain affordability, rent stabilization, and other benefits.
• Prepare legal documents for enforcement actions and issue legal notices to noncompliant properties.
• Write memos recommending whether revocation of benefits and/or other enforcement actions are appropriate.
• Work with other Division staff to update and maintain project tracking and case management systems and to compile and prepare Division-wide data for reports to senior managers, the New York City Mayor's Office and the City Council
• Become well-versed in program policies and regulations and provide input to staff and Assistant Commissioner about processes that would strengthen enforcement cases.
• Assist the Assistant Commissioner and other senior staff with special projects as needed.

Preferred Skills:

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community-centered activities; or high school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community-centered activities
• At least two years of project management, analytic or clerical experience
• Strong interpersonal, creative problem-solving, project management, research and analytical skills
• Keen attention to detail and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work productively and collaboratively as part of a team
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and manage projects in a timely manner
• Strong facility with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Willingness to learn on the job, exhibit a high degree of initiative in managing multiple priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, detail-oriented work environment
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience working for or with government agencies and government programs related to affordable housing compliance

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Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or

2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in "1" above.

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.