Executive Advisor for Strategic Initiatives

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (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

Your Role:

The Executive Advisor for Strategic Initiatives serves as a senior leader within HPD, responsible for developing, coordinating, and executing cross-cutting strategic priorities that advance the Department's mission. This role requires a visionary thinker who can translate complex policy challenges into actionable initiatives while building alignment across multiple divisions and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

The Executive Advisor for Strategic Initiatives will lead the identification and implementation of strategic initiatives that enhance HPD's ability to preserve and create affordable housing, strengthen neighborhoods, and improve outcomes for New York City residents. This includes conducting research and analysis to inform policy development, coordinating with division leaders to ensure initiative alignment with operational priorities, and managing high-priority projects from conception through implementation.

The position requires building and maintaining relationships with partner agencies, community-based organizations, elected officials, and other stakeholders to advance strategic goals.

The Executive Advisor will represent HPD in interagency working groups and policy discussions, prepare briefing materials and presentations for senior leadership and external audiences, and track initiative progress while adjusting strategies as needed to ensure success.

Additionally, this role involves identifying opportunities for innovation in program design and service delivery, analyzing emerging trends in housing policy and urban development, and mentoring staff involved in strategic projects.

Preferred Skills

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and ten (10) years of satisfactory, full-time, executive-level housing and/or urban planning/policy experience, including professional experience in real estate development, real estate finance, housing policy, and/or community development. Ability to analyze and recommend policies and procedures with strategic foresight. Ability to propose innovative approaches to complex problems. Ability to present the agency’s position in meetings with high level officials and other government and private entities. Demonstrated supervisory and management experience.

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1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory
full-time experience in one or more of the following fields: real estate management,
policy analysis, urban development, public relations, journalism, fund raising,
advertising, public or business administration or a related field, at least eighteen
months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, or executive
capacity or supervising personnel performing duties in one or more of the fields
described above; or

2. A combination of education and/or experience equivalent to "1" above.
However, all candidates must have the eighteen months of administrative,
managerial, executive a supervisory experience described in "1" above

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.