Project Manager Division of Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation

Job Description

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 Team:

The Office of Development leads the agency's effort in the production of affordable housing. This is achieved in close collaboration with HPD colleagues, other City and state agencies, and the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

The Division of Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation (HOP) creates and preserves affordable homes to facilitate generational wealth-building, maintain housing quality, and address the legacy of discrimination, segregation, and concentrated poverty. We do so by providing financial assistance to low- and middle-income homeowners, limited equity cooperatives, and community land trusts. Programs within the Division include:

- HomeFix and Project Help programs provide access to affordable low- or no-interest and potentially forgivable loans and grants for home repairs as well as resiliency or energy efficiency improvements to eligible owners of one- to four-family homes in New York City in partnership with nonprofit organizations
- The Plus One Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) program that finances ADU conversions in small homes and newly authorized basement legalizations under local law
- Small Homes Rehab, which works with non-profit developers to rehab existing public sites and privately owned 1-4 family homes to create affordable homeownership opportunities for low-income New Yorkers.
- The HomeFirst down payment assistance program, which provides resources to first-time low- and moderate-income homebuyers
- The Affordable Neighborhood Cooperative Program (ANCP), which selects qualified developers to rehabilitate distressed city-owned occupied multi-family properties, managed by the Tenant Interim Lease Program, to create affordable cooperatives for low- and moderate-income households
- The Open Door Program, which funds construction of cooperative and fee simple buildings to low, moderate- and middle-income families
- and special initiatives, including the Community Land Trust initiative, designed to ensure community stewardship of land and long-term housing affordability, the Zombie Homes initiative intending to develop an acquisition strategy for vacant and abandoned homes and reposition them as affordable homeownership opportunities.


Your Impact:


The Division of Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation seeks a Project Manager for Small Homes Repair Programs working primarily on the HomeFix and Project Help programs. The Project Manager reports to the Director of Small Homes Repair Programs. The Small Homes team works in a close partnership with various non-profit organizations to provide home repair loans to private owners of 1- to 4-family homes in New York City. The Project Manager may be expected to provide support across other programs. Our unit also oversees programs that support stabilization and acquisition strategies for distressed 1- to 4-family homes such as the Plus One Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), the Zombie Homes Initiative and the Community Restoration Fund (CRF). These programs are funded by city capital funds, City Council discretionary funds, private and other governmental sources.


Your Responsibilities:

The Project Manager will be responsible for all loan origination, underwriting and closing aspects of projects in the Small Homes Stabilization programs, including crafting loan commitments, managing the loan closing process, monitoring construction phases, and assisting with post-closing processes with HPD Asset Management. There will be significant contact with developers and affordable housing lenders. The Project Manager will assist the Deputy Director and Director in a spectrum of program management functions , including managing procurement actions with partner vendors. With minimal supervision, the Project Manager is expected to prepare and maintain written correspondence, documents, reports, and files regarding all assigned projects.

The Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation team is seeking a self-starter who, working closely with the Director and Deputy Director, will be able to review, analyze, and shepherd homeownership and housing development deals. The ideal candidate will be someone who is comfortable performing analysis across various repair programs and has an overall interest in improving work processes with an eye towards preserving affordable hom