Deputy Chief of Staff for the Office of the Commissioner

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.
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Your Team:

The Office of the Chief of Staff directly supports the Commissioner in overseeing and leading the agency. The Commissioner except as otherwise provided by law plans, initiates, conducts, supervises, coordinates, reviews, and evaluates City programs and policies relating to carrying out the agency’s mission and the Mayor's Housing New York plan.
The Office of the Chief of Staff includes the Communications and Government Affairs teams.

Your Role:

As Deputy Chief of Staff, you will support the Chief of Staff and the Commissioner in identifying, developing, implementing, and communicating agency priority initiatives and policies. You will serve as a bridge between the external-facing work of the Commissioner’s Office and the internal operations of the agency.
You will work in close partnership with the Chief of Staff, the Executive Deputy Commissioner, and the rest of the agency’s senior team to help ensure that the Commissioner’s priorities are successfully operationalized and achieved.
You will serve as a critical liaison between the agency and City Hall on priority matters and ensure that the Commissioner is apprised of detailed information in all areas of the organization’s operations.
You will also manage the flow of information to, and relationships with, external agencies, departments and organizations, and partners in the private sector and community stakeholders.

Your Responsibilities:

Agency Strategy and Coordination

• Supporting the Chief of Staff in identifying and managing critical issues that have significant public or agency impact and that require the attention of the Commissioner and other senior agency staff
• Strategizing with the Chief of Staff and other senior staff to resolve problems and ensure that priority initiatives are managed efficiently and communicated effectively to relevant internal and external partners
• Providing guidance to staff on behalf of the Commissioner on major initiatives to ensure effective and timely implementation of projects.

Commissioner’s Office Coordination

• Ensuring the Commissioner has all key information for decision making
• Supporting operations of the Commissioner’s Office, including prioritizing meetings, assisting with meeting and calendar management, meeting and event preparation, and other project management and administrative functions as needed

External Affairs and Communications

• Supporting the development of external affairs and communications strategies, including for public events, press, and digital media
• Ensuring the Commissioner is fully prepared for meetings, speaking engagements, and other events
• Representing the Chief of Staff and Commissioner at external meetings and events as required

Government Affairs

• Working with city, state, and federal officials, agencies, policy makers, advocates and planners in the public and private sectors to assess and craft housing policy.
• Supporting the management of New York City’s affordable housing city, state legislative and federal agenda
• Conferencing with elected officials, preparing testimony for public hearings, and responding to constituency and project inquiries from the general public and elected officials

Strategic Partnerships

• Engaging with various external partners, including developers, non-profits, community organizations, and foundations
• Developing public-private partnerships to achieve the agency’s strategic objectives
• Serving as the agency’s lead on fundraising activities

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to perform complex tasks with limited supervision as well as meet deadlines and manage multiple projects in a timely manner
• A high degree of professionalism and discretion, with the ability to maintain complete confidentiality of extremely sensitive, proprietary information
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including verbal and written communications, executive staff management, and conflict resolution
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions and balance multiple critical priorities
• Ability to manage multiple projects with various deadlines simultaneously
• Ability to work with varied teams and personalities
• Ability to complete and prioritize work with little supervision
• Strong technology and computer skills and intermediate to advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Significant experience in affordable housing development, planning, real estate, community development, or public administration, or a related area is strongly preferred
• Prior government agency experience is preferred

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