Director of Implementation Strategy

Job Description

DCAS's mission is to make city government work for all New Yorkers. From managing New York City’s most iconic courthouses and municipal buildings, to purchasing over $1 billion annually in goods and services for more than 80 City agencies what we do ensures that all agencies can deliver on their mission. Our reach touches every facet of city government and is instrumental to the successful day-to-day operations of the City of New York.

Our commitment to equity, effectiveness and sustainability guides our work providing City agencies with the critical resources and support needed to succeed, including:
- Recruiting, hiring, and training City employees.
- Managing 55 public buildings.
- Acquiring, selling, and leasing City property.
- Purchasing over $1 billion in goods and services for City agencies.
- Overseeing the greenest municipal vehicle fleet in the country.
- Leading the City's efforts to reduce carbon emissions from government operations.

When you work at DCAS, you're not just working for one agency, but in service of them all. It's an opportunity to provide impactful support, quality customer service, and help protect the future of New York City for generations to come. Visit our website at nyc.gov/dcas to learn more about the work we do.

The Real Estate Services (RES) division of DCAS supports the operations of the government of the City of New York by providing services for the City’s real estate needs. RES is responsible for the space planning and management of 37 million square feet, Citywide acquisitions (lease or purchase), sales and other dispositions of City-owned real estate, architectural design and project management, zoning and land use analyses, disposition of 15,000 City-owned lots, property valuation, and financial analysis of real estate transactions.

The Strategic Planning Unit leads efforts to consolidate the citywide real estate portfolio, partnering with other teams in RES, City agencies, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop and implement projects that deliver cost savings for the City of New York. The Strategic Planning Unit oversees the entire life cycle of a project to consolidate or relinquish space, including creating the initial concept, developing timelines, design documents and cost estimates, obtaining buy-in from agency partners, and managing implementation. The unit also leads process and operational improvements for RES, such as developing RFPs for leased real estate and implementing new technology to enhance project tracking and reporting.

We are seeking to hire an Administrative Space Analyst, NM to fulfill the functions of the Director of Implementation Strategy. The Director of Implementation Strategy will be responsible for working with the Workplace Strategists to ensure their project proposals are executable within the context of City requirements and DCAS procedures. In addition, this role will bring technical expertise to a team that is better versed in the conceptual nature of project planning rather than in their execution and implementation. This will ensure that the end product that moves from Strategic Planning and into the Leasing/DPM workstream is one that can be further developed by the team at large rather than re-conceptualized due to incompatibilities with City requirements and DCAS process. Last, but not least, this role will be primarily responsible for understanding the developing a strategy to address industrial project needs within the portfolio.

Additional responsibilities include:

- Responsibility #1: Collaborate with Workplace Strategists, client agencies and teams across RES to compile relevant information about lease agreements, capital investment needs, and utilization of City-owned and leased properties as needed.
- Responsibility #2: Provide guidance to team members on technical matters including compliance with City requirements and DCAS processes, apply relevant data to develop detailed, actionable plans for consolidation, relinquishment, relocation and/or restacking of office and industrial space.
- Responsibility #3: Collaborate with agency partners to identify space needs and operational requirements (with a primary focus on industrial and warehousing space).
- Responsibility #4: Provide guidance to team members of high-level scope of work items that may impact a proposed strategy as well as Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) capital costs.
- Responsibility #5: Coordinate inputs from multiple team members with different areas of expertise to develop an executable implementation strategy.
- Responsibility #6: Develop project schedules and timelines. Track special projects progress as needed to ensure critical milestones are met.
- Responsibility #7: Develop capital and expense cost estimates.
- Responsibility #8: Develop blocking plans and conceptual test fits.
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