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.
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Your Team:
The Office of Housing Access and Stability (“HAS”) consists of the divisions of Housing Opportunity, Tenant and Owner Resources, Housing Stability, Budget and Program Operations, and Program Policy and Innovation. The mission of the office is to ensure fair, efficient, and transparent access to affordable housing. The Office provides subsidies, placement services, and tools that connect New Yorkers to affordable housing and ensures vulnerable households in subsidized housing have the support they need to be safely housed. Housing Access is committed to expanding housing choices, affirmatively furthering fair housing, and stabilizing the financial health of buildings.
The Division of Housing Stability helps to ensure that formerly homeless tenants entering affordable housing (supportive and non-supportive) and owners of such housing have the necessary tools to successfully transition tenants into their new homes and maintain their tenancy. It administers and monitors project-based rental assistance contracts, including ~$50M in Continuum of Care (CoC) rental assistance, Section 8 Project Based Vouchers, and NY 15/15. The unit also manages HPD’s role in the NYC CoC, oversees HPD’s Housing Retention and Stabilization programs, and works to secure funding to expand these services to a broader scope of households.
Your Impact:
As Director of CoC Contracts within the Division of Housing Stability, you will be the manager of HPD’s role as recipient of 40 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuum of Care (CoC) grants that total over $50M. These grants provide project-based rental assistance for over 2,700 households in permanent supportive housing projects that are operated by not-for-profit agencies, or subrecipients. Your work allows thousands formerly homeless households maintain stable, affordable housing while accessing supportive services aimed at managing mental health, substance abuse disorders, and HIV/AIDS.
Your Role:
The Director of CoC Contracts reports to the Assistant Commissioner of Housing Stability.
Your role as Director of CoC Contracts is to manage the overall work of the Unit and up to eight staff that administer the subrecipient contracts, monitor compliance with HUD CoC policies, and ensure subrecipients’ effective utilization of grant funds. Staff work in one of two areas: CoC Contract Administration and CoC Monitoring and Compliance. You will be a supervisor, subject matter expert, problem-solver, reviewer of work product, and the primary liaison between HPD’s CoC Contracts Unit and multiple internal and external partners, including the Office of Development, the Division of Tenant and Owner Resources, the NYC CoC, DOHMH, HASA, and HUD.
Your Responsibilities
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Preferred Skills:
Only candidates permanent in the Associate Housing Development Specialist title, or a comparable title will be considered.
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1.A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and three years of full-time satisfactory professional experience in the development, appraisal, financing, negotiation, or disposition of real estate, or in real estate law, or in urban planning or analytical or coordination work related to housing programs; or
2. A four year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization and seven years of full-time satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or
3.A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. Graduate study in the field of urban studies, city planning, business or public administration, finance, architecture, engineering or other related fields may be substituted for up to one year of the required experience on the basis of 30 credits equaling one year of experience. Graduation from an accredited law school may be substituted for one year of the required experience. However, all candidates must have at least two years of experience as described above.
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.
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