About the Agency:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the nation’s largest municipal housing preservation and development agency. Its mission is to promote quality housing and diverse, thriving neighborhoods for New Yorkers through loan and development programs for new affordable housing, preservation of the affordability of the existing housing stock, enforcement of housing quality standards, and educational programs for tenants and building owners. HPD is tasked with fulfilling Mayor de Blasio’s Housing New York Plan which was recently expanded and accelerated through Housing New York 2.0 to complete the initial goal of 200,000 homes two years ahead of schedule by 2022, and achieve an additional 100,000 homes over the following four years, for a total of 300,000 homes by 2026.Your Team:
The Executive Deputy Commissioner functions as a Chief Operating Officer for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and works closely with the Commissioner to achieve the agency’s mission. The Executive Deputy Commissioner directly oversees many of the agency’s operational divisions, including:

• Asset & Property Management, which actively monitors the performance and regulatory compliance of City-sponsored projects and directly manages City-owned properties.
• Tenant Resources, which administers rental assistance programs for low-income tenants, including Section 8, Shelter Plus Care, and Moderate Rehabilitation.
• Technology, which develops desktop and mobile applications based on programmatic needs and maintains the agency’s technological infrastructure.
• Human Resources, which recruits and onboards talented professionals, manages benefits and payroll, and provides basic and advanced training opportunities.
• Financial Management, which develops and negotiates the agency’s expense, revenue and capital budgets, and provides critical financial data to agency senior staff in order to inform decision-making and program development.

The Executive Deputy Commissioner also provides operational support to the Offices of Development, Enforcement and Neighborhood Services, and Neighborhood Strategies, and actively collaborates with the Offices of Legal Affairs, Communications, and Policy and Strategy.

Your Impact:
As the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Executive Deputy Commissioner, you will create both large-scale and low-level process improvements that will positively impact the functions of hundreds of agency staff and ultimately deliver more effective, efficient, and user-centric services to millions of New Yorkers.

Your projects might include everything from developing an agency-wide technology strategy to scaling prototype programs for low-income tenants to redesigning human resource processes.

Your Role:
Your role will be to deep-dive into a portfolio of the Executive Deputy Commissioner’s divisions to understand their operations, identify opportunities for process improvement and organizational redesign, and assemble cross-functional teams to implement your recommendations.

As Deputy Chief of Staff, you will work extremely closely with both the Executive Deputy Commissioner and the Chief of Staff to achieve the Office’s priorities, but you will also have a large latitude to function independently and create your own work assignments and projects.