Sustainability Intern

Position Summary: The President’s Office leads planning efforts around long-term sustainability for HDC’s portfolio of affordable housing, including implementation of local, state, and federal laws and programs to decarbonize buildings. The Sustainability Intern will support the team’s work in this area, with a focus on evaluating HDC’s portfolio for feasibility of solar energy and other decarbonization measures.

This role is housed in the Division of Policy and Analytics (P&A), which provides policy, planning, operational, and analytics advisory services to help HDC and the City of New York advance the life outcomes of city residents through affordable housing. The division’s work is interdisciplinary, and our projects often consider intersecting issues of affordable housing, finance, economic and social policy, social equity, governance, management, and technology. In this highly collaborative role, projects often have interdepartmental and interagency impact. The Division of Policy and Analytics is part of the President’s Office. This position reports to the Vice President for Policy and Analytics.

Intern role name: Sustainability Intern

Area of Talent: Sustainability / Building Decarbonization

Position Type: Fall 2024 Internship

Office Location: NYC/Financial District

Hourly Rate: Graduate $19.00/hour

If needed, HDC will fully support an intern’s application for credit or stipend from their school/university.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct and synthesize research on best practices, technical requirements, costs, and other issues related to decarbonization in multi-family buildings, particularly solar energy feasibility.
• Identify critical data necessary to evaluate buildings for solar and other decarbonization measures; assist with filling data gaps through additional desktop or field research, as needed.
• Execute data extraction, cleaning, and synthesis in Excel.
• Develop a set of guidelines and an evaluation framework to be used by HDC to assess buildings for solar and other decarbonization measures, including assessing eligibility for key federal funding sources.
• Collaborate with teams within HDC (including Engineering, Asset Management, and Development) and with external partners as needed.
• Other related tasks as requested by the VP.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be pursuing a Graduate-level degree in a related field
• Subject expertise in building decarbonization
• Proficiency in Excel

Preferred Qualifications:

• Pursuing a Graduate degree in Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Building Technology, or similar field
• Proficiency in GIS
• Familiarity with the City of New York’s building decarbonization goals, laws, and programs
• Familiarity with existing data sources on New York City buildings and energy usage

It is strongly preferred that you submit a cover letter with your resume. You may also fax your resume and cover letter to (212)227-6816.

HDC 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.

HDC is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, HDC will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please complete the reasonable accommodations section on the application or contact Human Resources by emailing [email protected].