Location
NYC-ALL BOROS
Department
OPS SUSTAINABILITY
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the city’s housing, and diversity and strength in the citys neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.
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 citys history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York Citys 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:
HPDs Office of Policy & Strategy (OPS) leverages its expertise to guide and support HPD and its many Offices in their efforts to deepen their impact, optimize their efficiency, and become more data-driven, compliance-attentive, climate-adaptive, and mission-focused. To do so, the Office of Policy & Strategy collaborates with staff and senior leadership from across the Agency, as well as with representatives from other Agencies. OPS carries out its work through delivery of rigorous data, policy, and financial/credit analysis; technical and statistical research; compliance awareness and adherence; and techniques in program visioning and design to all of HPDs areas of practice.
The Office of Policy and Strategy is composed of four areas:
HPDs Chief Sustainability Office (CSO), which is embedded in HPDs Office of Policy and Strategy, advances policies and practices that enhance HPD’s core objectives of healthy, safe and affordable housing while furthering NYCs ambitious climate goals. In doing so, we promote opportunities for NYCs most vulnerable and historically marginalized New Yorkers to participate in and benefit equitably from the green economy while reducing the burdens that disproportionately impact these communities. We do this by developing design standards and policies that incorporate best practices of sustainability, resiliency and equity; by building capacity for stakeholders to meet the standards; and by monitoring and providing data about projects to ensure that we are accountable to our climate, environmental justice and fair housing goals.
Your Impact:
HPD works to ensure that the City’s investment in affordable housing goes toward building and preserving energy efficient, sustainable, and resilient buildings. Aligning with NYC’s goals of carbon neutrality and climate resiliency, HPD ensures that our projects promote the health, safety, and prosperity of New Yorkers. Under Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness, HPD committed to scaling up the equitable decarbonization and resiliency of our housing stock through our policies, programs and HPDs Design Guidelines.
Your Role:
The Senior Climate Analyst, in partnership with the Sustainability team, will work toward developing and overseeing the technical aspects of HPDs sustainability standards, policies, and programs, providing support to internal and external stakeholders, and overseeing research and analytics required to analyze external policies and support development of HPDs sustainability policies and programs.
Your Responsibilities:
The Senior Climate Analyst will be responsible for:
– Work on inner- and inter-agency special initiatives related to sustainability, resiliency and housing;
Your Experience:
1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master’s degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to “1” or “2” above. However, all candidates must have at least a master’s degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in “2” above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in “1” and “2” above.
NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Educations website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.
New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.
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.
1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master’s degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master’s degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to “1”” or “”2″” above. However