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.


Your Team

Situated within the Office of Finance & Administration, the Division of Budget manages the agency’s $1+ billion operating budget, which is comprised of nearly 25 funding streams from city, state, federal, and other categorical sources. The division’s staff advise and support HPD’s program managers and budget liaisons on matters pertaining to funding availability, grant compliance, cost savings initiatives, financial analysis, and program development.


Your Impact

Budget Expense Unit seeks a dynamic, Resourceful, Organized, Personnel Review Analyst to assist with managing the agencies personnel review process. As Personnel Review Analyst, you will work closely with colleagues in the Budget Office, Office of Human Resources, as well as personnel liaisons within the agency’s program divisions. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision. In this role, the candidate will be expected to develop a strong working relationship with various parts of the Agency in understanding guidelines and eligibility issues to ensure program areas are utilizing available funding.


Your Role & Responsibilities

Under supervision of the Deputy Director of Personnel Review within the Budget Division you will be responsible to manage personnel review across the Agency to ensure the stability of staffing levels- new hires, promotions, and backfills etc. With latitude for the exercise of independent judgment, you will and assume the following duties but will not be limited to the following.


- Manage Personnel Action Requests and Backfill Action Requests distribute to respective Budget Analyst for funding source eligibility review.

- Provide technical guidance to agency stakeholders on how best to utilize limited Personnel resources to achieve HPD’s Housing goals and Housing Program initiatives.

- Ensure that Personnel Actions are in compliance with the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) & HPD’s rules, regulations, and guidelines.

- Work with the Expense team to monitor spending levels for Personnel Services.

- Liaise with the Human Resources Department to coordinate processing of Personnel Service Requests

- Assists in the continuous development and improvement of processes, continually looking for opportunities to streamline and improve internal procedures regarding the personnel review process.

- Special Project and assignments at the Deputy Director’s or Senior staff Request.


NOTE: Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.
NYC residency required.

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.

- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college. - Strong Database Management skills with the ability to maintain multiple databases. - Excellent Organizational skills with the ability to effectively set priorities. - Strong ability to work creatively, thoughtfully, and productively with people from different backgrounds in a solution-oriented, collaborative environment. - Experience with Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, Access, Project, PowerPoint, and SharePoint).

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.