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.

- 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 Development leads the agency's effort in implementing the Mayor's Housing Plan. This is achieved in close collaboration with HPD colleagues, other City and state agencies, and the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

The Division of Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation creates and preserves affordable homes to facilitate generational wealth-building, maintain housing quality, and address the legacy of discrimination, segregation, and concentrated poverty. We do so by providing financial assistance to low- and middle-income homeowners, limited equity cooperatives, and community land trusts. Programs within the Division include:

- HomeFix and Project Help programs provide access to affordable low- or no-interest and potentially forgivable loans and grants for home repairs as well as resiliency or energy efficiency improvements to eligible owners of one- to four-family homes in New York City in partnership with nonprofit organizations
- The Basement Apartment Conversion Pilot Program and the Plus One Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) program that finance ADU conversions in small homes.
- Small Homes Rehab, which works with nonprofit developers to rehab existing public sites and privately owned 1-4 family homes to create affordable homeownership opportunities for low-income New Yorkers. Community Restoration Fund, which facilitate the acquisition of distressed mortgage notes from mortgage lenders and repositions these assets to preserve affordable homeownership and rental opportunities.
- The Affordable Neighborhood Cooperative Program (ANCP), which selects qualified developers to rehabilitate distressed city-owned occupied multi-family properties, managed by the Tenant Interim Lease Program, to create affordable cooperatives for low- and moderate-income households.
- and special initiatives including Community Land Trusts, designed to ensure community stewardship of land and long-term housing affordability and the Zombie Homes initiative to develop an acquisition strategy for vacant and abandoned homes and reposition them as affordable homeownership opportunities.

Your Impact:
The Division of Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation seeks a Deputy Director for Small Homes Repair Programs. The Deputy Director reports to the Director of Small Homes Repair Programs. The Homeownership unit manages programs that provide home repair loans to private owners of 1- to 4-family homes, where the owner also resides in the home (e.g. HomeFix and Project HELP). These programs are funded by city capital funds, City Council discretionary funds, private and other governmental sources. The unit also has programs that support stabilization and acquisition strategies for distressed 1- to 4-family homes such as the Zombie Homes Initiative and the Community Resotration Fund (CRF).

Your Role:

The Deputy Director will assist in executing the restructure and expansion of homeownership programs within HOP including: expanding the output of existing repair loan programs, acquiring and collaborating with other homeownership programs and creating new homeownership opportunities.

The ideal candidate is a creative, analytical, solutions-oriented professional that has strong management experience. The Deputy Director will execute policy change as it relates to homeownership initiatives for New York City. There will be significant contact with not-for-profit partners, and affordable housing lenders. The Deputy Director will define and negotiate the business and legal terms of their programs. The Deputy Director is expected to prepare and maintain written correspondence, documents, reports, and files regarding all assigned projects, and manage project management and administrative staff.

Your Responsibilities:

Primary duties will include, but not be limited to the following:
- Assist the Director with managing staff in the Small Homes Repair programs including training, onboarding, supervising, and evaluation project management, assistant project management, and administrative staff;
- Collaborating with the Executive Director and Director to manage the development and implementation of homeownership programs to meet the City's goals for homeowner stabilization and new homeownership opportunities;
- Increasing the HomeFix and Project HELP pipelines and improving program processes to better serve program applicants;
- Analyze and develop acquisition strategies to build a pipeline of 1-4 family homes for rehab and resale to first time homebuyers through CRF and the Zombie Homes Initiative
- Establishing appropriate productivity measures; supporting staff in achieving programmatic and agency goals, promoting collaboration among staff, promoting a high achievement, overseeing staff in their performance of their responsibilities, and evaluating staff;
- Assist the Director to proactively manage projects, troubleshoot, make appropriate recommendations, and ensure all necessary approvals;
- Managing procurement actions including contract management, invoicing, etc. for partner vendors on homeownership programs;
- Improving the agency’s ability to serve the 1-4 family housing stock of New York City, as it relates to homeownership;
- Reviewing legal documents with a keen eye on accuracy and intended deed terms;
- Engaging in and leading programmatic policy discussions;
- Managing administrative functions such as budget forecasting, setting productivity goals, tracking/reporting and compliance;
- Reviewing project proposal materials and loan documents prepared by program staff;
- Identify opportunities to train and build out expertise of program staff;
- Managing special projects, including development and implementation of homeownership and homeowner assistance initiatives and strategies;
- Communicating with elected officials, other City agencies, homeowners, developers, lenders, community groups and other stakeholders as necessary, including presenting program materials at interagency meetings, meetings with elected officials and community meetings; Collaborate with other HPD divisions to achieve agency goals as they relate to homeownership.

Preferred Skills

- Candidates should have strong managerial and leadership experience, a record of achieving results in a fast-paced environment, experience managing programs as well as seeking ways to improve programs and procedures, Candidates must able to assess situations and persuade with concise specific solutions ;
- Candidates must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills;
- Candidates must have strong financial analysis skills including financial modeling and financial statement analysis, be detail-oriented, self-motivated, be able to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines;
- Prior experience working with homeownership programs;
- Knowledge of housing development/lending and knowledge of HPD development programs
- Demonstrated analytical skills, and ability to work effectively with others to obtain results promptly;
- Knowledge of NYC government and housing issues;
- Significant experience with housing finance, real estate underwriting and financial feasibility analysis;
- Excellent analytical, quantitative and research skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills;
- Ability to perform complex tasks with limited supervision;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Strong facility with Microsoft Word, Excel & Powerpoint.

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.

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.