Job Description
Agency Description:
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city’s housing stock, 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 Division of Building and Land Development Services (BLDS) leads the agency’s effort in providing architectural, engineering, cost valuation, environmental planning, and construction support services to the various divisions within HPD’s Office of Development. The Office of Development utilizes a public-private partnership model and provides loans, grants, and/or incentives to assist in the finance of housing development projects that will benefit low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.
BLDS is the largest division within the Office of Development with over 100 staff, and is composed of seven units, including: the Bureau of New Construction Design Review Services, the Bureau of Preservation Design Review Services, the Bureau of Engineering, the Bureau of Construction Services, the Environmental Planning Unit, the Program Management Unit, and the Executive Office.
Your Impact:
As Data Analyst, you will report to the Deputy Director of Analytics, within the BLDS Executive Office. You will work with the six other BLDS units to facilitate the analysis of internal and cross-agency data, while identifying trends in housing development projects. In addition, you will develop metrics and prepare reports and analyses related to performance evaluation, compliance, projects, or other initiatives.
Your Role:
The ideal candidate should have a bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in a relevant field of study, such as Data Science, Urban Planning, or Public Administration. The ideal candidate will have superior data synthesis and management skills and be adept at utilizing data management tools.
Your Responsibilities:
- Data management: maintaining regular reporting and analyses, including bi/weekly MMR reports, project summary analyses, and annual reports.
- Performance management & evaluation: developing metrics on internal (BLDS) and external (Architects, Contractors, etc.) performance and workloads, resulting in new or updated analyses and summary reports, among others.
- Creating data visualization tools and materials for presentations.
- Maintenance of BLDS’ data systems, including monitoring reports, updating user guides and other informational documents, providing technical/procedural guidance, and troubleshooting, as needed.
- Brainstorming ways to improve the integration of BLDS’ data systems and datasets.
- Gathering and synthesizing data from several different sources.
- Participating in special projects, as necessary.
Preferred skills:
- Resourceful, proactive, and willing to learn new hard and soft skills; creative problem-solving and ability to think independently.
- Excellent communication, writing, critical thinking, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, ability to multi-task to meet deadlines, and ability to execute tasks independently.
- Attention to detail in working with large datasets that may not always be familiar.
- Ability to communicate and work effectively with diverse technical specialists, and ability to learn and translate technical language into digestible and concise information for a wider audience.
- Experience with creating data visualization tools, and familiarity with SharePoint and SAS, Python, or other programming software/language. Coding experience is big a plus. Candidate may be asked to provide work samples.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, demonstrating high proficiency in Excel; candidate may be requested to provide work samples or to take a short test to demonstrate abilities.
- Previous experience in housing, architecture, construction, and related fields is a plus.
Candidate may be subject to a background investigation conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation.
NOTE: ONLY THOSE PERMANENT IN THE TITLE OF STAFF ANALYST (OR COMPARABLE TITLE) WILL BE CONSIDERED
Qualifications
1. A master’s degree from an accredited college or university, accredited by regional, national, professional or specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) 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; or
2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, accredited by regional, national, professional or specialized agencies recognized as accrediting bodies by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience working in one or a combination of the following areas: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; or in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; or in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, labor 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.
Special Note:
To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II, individuals must have, after meeting the minimum requirements, one additional year of professional experience as described in "2" above.
