NYC1515 Rental Assistance Analyst for the Division of Housing Opportunity

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

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 Housing Opportunity ensures that HPD’s affordable housing is made available through fair, transparent, and accessible programming. Developers creating affordable housing are required to offer many types of units through an open lottery process on NYC Housing Connect and fill other units through a placement process for households in the City’s shelter system. Housing Opportunity (DHO) administers the housing lottery and homeless placements programs and crafts policy and procedures to ensure that these programs offer equal opportunity to all applicants and affirmatively further fair housing.

Your Impact

The NYC 15/15 program is a New York City-funded rental assistance program that assists eligible families and individuals, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, by providing an affordable apartment and offering supportive services to help participants achieve long-term stability. As a NYC1515 Rental Assistance Analyst in the Rental Subsidy & Supportive Housing Coordination (RSSHC) Unit, you will help formerly homeless, senior, low income, and other vulnerable New Yorkers access affordable housing. The team's primary responsibilities are to ensure that eligible tenants gain access to housing as quickly and efficiently as possible, and that the various rental assistance subsidy allocations are fully utilized in a timely manner and compliant with federal, local, and regulatory requirements.

Your Role

Your role as a NYC1515 Rental Assistance Analyst will be to manage the RSSHC portfolio using independent judgement and knowledge of administrative requirements for each program. The NYC1515 Rental Assistance Analyst will provide application guidance to not- for-profit providers, other government agencies and answer questions regarding eligibility and administrative requirements for the various subsidy programs. NYC1515 Rental Assistance Analyst will review applications for completeness, ensure application meets the relevant preference, submit applications, and update various databases.

Your Responsibilities

• Manage and Track the application process for new projects, including coordinating with the not-for-profit providers and government referral agencies
• Review tenant rental assistance applications for eligibility documentation and completeness.
• Manage the re-rental applications of existing projects and address administrative bottlenecks delaying the process
• Provide various subsidy application trainings and technical assistance to not for profit agencies and management companies to ensure applications are completed thoroughly, in a timely manner and include all required additional documents
• Work collaboratively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with not-for-profit social service, housing agencies, management companies, landlords, and other public agencies.
• Maintain sensitivity to the needs of homeless, elderly, disabled and very low-income households
• Participate in required training, weekly and kick-off meeting with other housing providers and stakeholders
• Ensure all RSSHC Unit trackers are up-to-date and has all relevant information in appropriate section
• Participate in the social service proposal committee (RFP) in collaboration with other city agencies.
• Assist other staff member(s) within the RSSHC team for adequate coverage, as needed.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with Federal or local rental assistance programs and knowledge of supportive housing funding, including service funding
• Experience and knowledge in processing various types of subsidy and application process (e.g. Housing Choice Voucher, Project Based Voucher, NYC 1515, SPC Shelter Plus Care, MOD SRO and Supportive Housing).
• Ability to interpret, understand, apply, and explain rental assistance program requirements, policies, and processes
• Initiative with the ability to anticipate the needs of the team and department, and willingness to seek and implement solutions to problems
• Analytical, planning and project management skills including carrying out projects from conception to completion
• Organize, plan and structure workload(s) in a manner, which maximizes productivity while ensuring excellent quality
• Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex rules, concepts, and processes to stakeholders with different levels of awareness and knowledge
• Strong writing/editing skills with the ability to adapt style and tone dependent on audience
• The ability to work well independently as well as with other team members and stakeholders
• Proficiency using the Microsoft Office suite (e.g. Excel, Word, Powerpoint, TEAMS, and Outlook etc..)
• Ability to provide the highest quality service to the public by addressing concerns timely, accurately, and professionally
  
  

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Minimum Qualifications

• 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
• 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
• 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.
  
  

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

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/.

Residency Requirement

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.

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.