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 Impact:

As the Supervising Investigator (Investigator Employee Discipline L3) for the Division of Investigations, you will be responsible for conducting highly confidential and sensitive investigations and studies concerning the fraudulent acts of administrative misconduct and incompetency of agency officials or employees, violations of Agency/City rules and regulations, and the development and implementation of plans and programs for the control and prevention of misconduct or incompetent practices, including internal security.

Your Role:

Under direction, with wide latitude for independent action and decision, the Supervising Investigator will supervise a large unit performing disciplinary investigations. They will advise subordinates on difficult matters and interprets rules, regulations, codes and policy for the guidance of the investigating staff. They will serve as consultant in the investigation of difficult cases. They will also plan and coordinate investigation schedules and assignments, as well as prepare, review, and evaluate all reports and recommendations submitted for administrative action. Finally, they will supervise training programs and conduct highly complex or special investigations. In the temporary absence of the supervisor, they may also perform the duties of that position.


Your Responsibilities:

- Experience working in housing voucher administration and supervision.
- Conducting investigations and providing supervisory guidance to the Inspector General’s office on matters of Federally funded housing vouchers.
- Significant legal, and policy experience, determining the financial implications for the City.
- Demonstrate ingenuity, resourcefulness, creativity, independence, and analytic thinking in performing their case work.
- Ability to independently advance their own investigations and to supervise the work of junior investigators.
- Must meet the highest standards of professionalism, discretion, and integrity.
- Conduct and supervise complex and long-tern investigations of fraud and corruption involving landlords, affordable housing subsidies, and entitles engaged in housing-related business with NYC
- The ability to use all types of investigative tools, including subpoenas and interviews.
- Must have the experience and knowledge of the agencies and regulations governing housing vouchers to serve as a resource for colleagues, providing guidance and assistance as needed.

Preferred skills:

- Substantive knowledge of Federal, State and Local employment laws
- Working knowledge of disability rights issues
- Proven ability to communicate verbally and in writing, with all levels of a diverse workforce
- An eagerness to work on a close-knit team
- A keen sense of how to engage effectively in tough conversations
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Experience working independently with minimal oversight
- Highest ability to exercise and maintain confidentiality

INVESTIGATOR (EMPLOYEE DISCIPL - 31167

1. A baccalaureate degree from accredited college; or
2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and four years of satisfactory full-time experience in one or more of the fields of accounting, auditing, correction administration, criminal justice administration and planning, forensic science, inspection, law enforcement, personnel administration, police science, and security, or in a major operational area of the agency in which the appointment is to be made; or
3. Education and/or experience equivalent to “1” or “2” 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.