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.

- 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.
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Your Team:

The Office of Housing Access and Stability (HAS) consists of the divisions of Housing Opportunities & Program Services, Tenant and Owner Resources, Housing Stability, Budget and Program Operations, and Program Policy and Innovation. Our mission of the office is to ensure fair, efficient, and transparent access to affordable housing. HAS 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 Opportunity & Program Services ensures that HPD’s affordable housing is made available through fair, transparent, and accessible programming. Developers creating affordable housing are required to offer many types of units through an open lottery process on NYC Housing Connect and fill other units through a placement process for households in the City’s shelter system. Housing Opportunity & Program Services administers the housing lottery and homeless placements programs and crafts policy and procedures to ensure that these programs offer equal opportunity to all applicants and affirmatively further fair housing.

Your Impact:

As the Data Analyst for the Homeless Placement Services Unit you will lead the data collection and tracking efforts of the Homeless Placement Services (HPS) unit.

Your Role:

Your role will be to match homeless clients to homeless set aside vacancies reported by sponsors through e-RR and other systems.

Your Responsibilities:

- Maintaining tracking systems of client applications and referrals
- Generating and circulating internal and external reports on the unit's targets, current workload, and production, including data for the agency's key metrics
- Matching homeless clients to homeless set aside vacancies reported by sponsors through e-RR and other systems
- Coordinating and sharing data with the Department of Social Services (DSS) and HPD program areas to ensure accurate and timely referrals and placements of homeless families into units
- Ensuring data integrity in reporting systems in Access, Excel, and Sharepoint
- Making maintenance updates in order to be consistent with any business process changes
- Working closely with the unit's team members to troubleshoot issues related to timely and accurate reporting of homeless placements
- As necessary, managing a portfolio of homeless set aside units and/or 421a homeless units; providing referrals and tracking placements to those units
- Completing special projects and reporting for the Assistant Commissioner, Director, Deputy Director, Team Leaders



Preferred skills:

Strong data analytical and organizational abilities
Proficiency with MS Excel, MS Access and MS Teams
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Strong interpersonal skills and commitment to a collegial and productive workplace
Knowledge of affordable housing programs and subsidies, including New York City regulations and government
Experience in creating reports for stakeholders at all levels of government
Comfortable asking questions and collaborating with staff to correct data entry errors
Careful and detailed while maintaining the unit’s databases and data systems
Able to recognize and articulate patterns that may improve business processes

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.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

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.