Agency Description:

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.


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 ~$50MM 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.

The CoC , is the grantee/recipient of 44 Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Continuum of Care (CoC) grants. These grants provide project based rental assistance for permanent supportive housing projects that are operated by not-for-profit agencies, or subrecipients.

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Your Impact:
As the Deputy Director of CoC Training and Compliance, you will provide oversight and management of
the CoC grant monitoring process, promote understanding and implementation of CoC program rules amongst internal and external stakeholders, and assist with grant administration duties including HUD monitoring and the Single Audit. You will also provide on-site and administrative monitoring of the subrecipient programs to

ensure compliance with the terms of funding and proper implementation of required policies such as Housing First, Equal Access, Fair Housing and more.

Your Role:


Your role as the Deputy Director of CoC Training & Compliance will involve supervising two CoC Compliance Analysts and providing oversight of the overall monitoring process. Depending on staffing resources, you may also be directly responsible for monitoring some of the portfolio. Finally, you will also train subrecipients on HUD regulations that govern the CoC program.


Your Responsibilities

- Responsible for ensuring subrecipient programs receiving CoC grant funds administered by HPD are monitored on an annual basis in line with HUD terms of funding and HPD policies and procedures.
- Support and supervise the Compliance Analyst(s): provide expertise relating to CoC program rules and regulations.
- The ability to understand, interpret, and apply law, rules, regulations, policies and/or procedures.
- Assist the Compliance Analyst(s) in assessing and evaluating subrecipient performance in line with program requirements.
- Review and approve monitoring methods, findings, outcome reports and corrective action plans.
- Support the Compliance Analyst’s administrative and learning needs and ensure performance standards.
- Identify subrecipient training needs and coordinate and facilitate information sessions
and workshops for program staff to promote better understanding of CoC program rules and regulations, HPD policies and procedures, and to promote best practices.
- Share knowledge and guidance on CoC related matters with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Keep abreast of developments in HUD regulations, trouble shoot issues and analyze and recommend solutions relating to complex procedural and compliance issues.
- Work collaboratively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and take a lead
in representing the agency in committees, working groups, or community meetings to build strong working relationships and promote best practices.
- Oversee fiscal compliance; review subrecipient match and fiscal information as part of the annual NOFO submission, facilitate requests relating to Single Audit requirements, and ensure HPD reports on subgrants in line with federal reporting requirements.
- Manage the Unit’s response to the City’s Single Audit and HUD monitoring processes. Work with subrecipients, data systems and other divisions within HPD to provide required documentation to auditors / monitor.
- Responsible for preparing, updating and implementing the CoC Monitoring Plan, monitoring tools, guidance and training materials, and other departmental policies and procedures as required.

In addition to the tasks described above, the individual hired will be expected to take on related duties as needed.

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.

- Experience working directly with CoC funded programs and knowledge of the federal rules and regulations governing the CoC program. Experience with CoC program monitoring a plus. - Supervisory experience with the ability to train, coach and monitor employees and ensure performance standards. - Initiative with the ability to anticipate the needs of the team and department, and willingness to seek and implement solutions to problems. - Experience developing and delivering engaging trainings to an audience with mixed level of understanding of the content. - Analytical, planning and project management skills including carrying out projects from conception to completion. - Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex rules, concepts, and processes to stakeholders with different levels of awareness and knowledge. - Strong writing/editing skills with the ability to adapt style and tone dependent on audience. - The ability to work well independently as well as with other team members and stakeholders. - Proficiency using the Microsoft Office suite. Apply Online via JobsNYC.gov

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

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.