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.
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 Government Affairs works with city, state, and federal officials, agencies, policy makers, advocates and planners in the public and private sectors to assess housing policy, land use and planning issues, and manage the City's affordable housing legislative agenda.
Your Impact:
HPD seeks a highly motivated individual with exceptional communication skills to serve as the Director of State Government Affairs on the State policy in HPD's Office of Government Affairs. The Director of State Government Affairs serves to assess, craft, and secure legislative changes needed at the State level to implement HPD's goals of creating and preserving affordable housing, protecting the quality and safety of the City's housing stock, and engaging communities in planning for the future of their neighborhoods.
Your Role:
The Director of State Government Affairs will be a senior member of the Division of Government Affairs team, and plays a critical role, working closely with the Agency’s senior team, Agency partners, and the Mayor’s Office in creating and advancing the Agency’s State legislative and policy agenda.
Your Responsibilities:
Under the direction of the Assistant Commissioner of Government Affairs, the selected candidate will be responsible for the following duties:
Preferred skills:
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of responsible full-time paid experience developing government subsidized housing programs, or performing responsible staff work in the field of housing for a legislative body. Graduate work in an appropriate field may be substituted on a year for year basis. Up to two years of the experience required or education and/or experience equivalent to above. However, all candidates must have at least one year 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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