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City of New York Executive Director of Program Policy and Innovation in New York, New York
Job Description
About HPD:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is the nation’s largest municipal housing preservation and development agency. Its mission is to promote 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.
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. HPD is committed to reducing administrative and regulatory barriers and make investments 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 Program Policy and Innovation (DPPI) will provide support across the Office of Housing Access and Stability (HAS) to coordinate policy development and analysis, support implementation of new rules and regulations, monitor program integrity and compliance, manage the selection of contracts for project-based rental assistance and improve outcomes for program participants beyond affordable housing. DPPI will engage stakeholders and conduct analysis of lessons learned from existing practices to propose new ideas to better respond to participants’ needs in collaboration with all Divisions within the Office.
Your Impact:
The Executive Director (ED), reporting to the Assistant Commissioner of DPPI, will lead multiple teams that will monitor the landscape of federal and local assistance programs, anticipates potential challenges with proposals and prepares the Office and the team to respond effectively and creatively while engaging stakeholders in the process. The ED will also incorporate understanding of rules and regulations into operations to ensure the agency is compliant with program requirements while responsive to stakeholders. The ED will increase opportunities available to participants beyond rental assistance and will lead innovations that will improve outcomes for participants, applicants and property owners.
Your Role:
The Executive Director of Program Policy and Innovation will lead a combination of the following units in PPI.
Program Policy and Stakeholder Engagement: responsible for monitoring changes to Federal, State and local laws, rules, regulations and notices across all programs within the HAS portfolio. The team provides guidance on policy and operations changes to affected staff and will conduct this work through stakeholder engagement. The team serves as the primary interface between program areas and oversight bodies at both the local and Federal level.
Regulatory Compliance and Program Integrity: this team will include the Quality Assurance, Repayments and Program Integrity and Compliance teams which monitor compliance with rules and procedures, address potential fraud and remediate through repayment agreement as needed.
Project Based Contract Selection: manage the selection of project-based voucher (PBV) contracts and the initiation of PBV and NYC15/15 contracts.
Family Self Sufficiency: provide financial incentives and counseling support to help participants achieve their employment related goals over the course of five years.
Mobility Counseling: Community Choice Demonstration, a HUD designed program to help families move to HUD defined Opportunity areas with their voucher. Identifies lessons learned to be implemented as best practice in standard voucher programs.
Homeownership Program: enables program participants to use their vouchers towards homeownership.
The ED will inform HAS operations from the lessons learned and identify innovations through a stakeholder engagement process and propose changes that improve the experience of program participants.
Responsibilities:
The Executive Director for Program Policy and Innovation will be responsible for ensuring the units in PPI develop and meet their goals. The ED will:
Set goals and objectives annually and develop a plan to achieve those goals and identify the resources needed by the team to ensure targets are met.
Work with a team of professional staff to develop a collaborative and creative environment that enables professional development opportunity while acting on improvement plans for those who do not meet expectations.
Engage in collaborative decision making for all areas within the Division. The ED will have significant latitude but must exercise good judgement to include HAS leadership as needed for significant decisions.
Represent the agency and the Division in internal and external meetings to learn about the landscape of rental subsidy administration, services that offer additional opportunities to participants and with property owners, program participants and brokers, advocates and others to keep program policy and planning informed in its planning and operations.
Lead the team in staying up to date in program changes and requirements and ensure a system is in place to monitor compliance within HAS and engage in Risk Management discussions. Respond to opportunities for funding and resources made available through HUD and ensure that the agency is in compliance with existing requirements in addition to new ones.
Necessary skills:
Strong leadership and managerial experience
Experience managing programs as well as seeking ways to improve programs and procedures
Exceptional project management, organizational, analytical, quantitative, and qualitative skills
Exceptional presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
Comfort with technology, including Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio) and other analytical, process or flowchart, and other tools and data systems
Knowledge of Section 8 and other rental subsidies, and federal, state, and local housing laws and regulations
Collaborative and creative orientation for program design and change management
NOTE: Only those candidates currently serving in the ADMIN Staff Analyst title, or comparable civil service title are eligible to apply
Qualifications
A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or
A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above.
Additional Information
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.