Senior Project Manager for the Division of Housing Incentives, Inclusionary Housing & Universal Affordability Program

Job Description

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.


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 Development leads the implementation of the Mayor’s Housing Plan to create or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. This is performed in close collaboration with HPD colleagues, other City and state agencies, and the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC).


The Office of Development is composed of nine divisions:


- Executive Office Operations and Policy

- Division of Compliance and Enforcement

- Division of Housing Incentives

- Division of Building & Land Development Services

- Division of New Construction Finance

- Division of Homeownership Opportunities & Preservation

- Division of Preservation Finance

- Division of Special Needs Housing

- Division of Portfolio Management and Conversion


Your Impact:


As Project Manager for Inclusionary Housing Programs, Universal Affordability Program (UAP), you will help address the city’s affordable housing crisis by implementing the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, much of which will be in mixed-income developments promoting economic integration and access to neighborhoods with job opportunities and transit.


Your Role:


Your role will be to manage a portfolio of affordable housing projects from pre-development through completion of construction, under the direction of the unit’s Director and Senior Project Managers. Your primary role as Project Manager is to facilitate the development of affordable housing that is financially feasible and compliant with the New York City Zoning Resolution. To do so, you will interact with a variety of public and private partners on complex multi-family real estate transactions in the UAP, Voluntary IH, Mandatory IH, and Cure programs.


All Project Managers in the IH Unit are expected to perform similar duties and responsibilities to ensure a flexible and multi-disciplined team. In closing on transactions, Project Managers collaborate with other NYC agencies, including the

Department of City Planning, as well as with state agencies, for- and non-profit housing and community developers, Community Boards, local organizations, and public officials.

Your Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:


- Review and analyze Inclusionary Housing applications from developers, which includes, but is not limited to, the following:

o UAP, Voluntary IH, Mandatory IH, CURE and other programs

o Financial feasibility analysis and comprehensive underwriting review

o Zoning analysis: ensure projects are in compliance with all applicable sections of the Zoning Resolution

o Perform due diligence in accordance with HPD’s Integrity Review policies and procedures

o Evaluate housing proposals submitted by private developers and recommend modifications or approval

- Train and support junior Project Managers

- Prepare and maintain written correspondence, documents, reports and files for assigned projects in a clear, organized manner. Input updates into electronic databases in a timely and accurate manner

- Manage, monitor and track all aspects of projects and report progress or challenges to senior staff in a timely manner

- Resolve policy, implementation, tracking, and project approval issues related to HPD interdepartmental pre-development planning

- Serve as Program’s liaison to developers, other government agencies, banks, architects