Senior Advisor for Modernization Programs

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the nation’s oldest and largest public housing authority with more than 152,000 apartments and over 370,000 residents. NYCHA’s mission is to provide quality housing for New Yorkers that is sustainable, inclusive, and safe, while fostering opportunities for economic mobility. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 leased housing program that serves over 200,000 tenants. Since the 2019 Agreement between NYCHA, the Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD), and the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (SDNY), NYCHA has been working under a Federal Monitor structure. The HUD Agreement sets the requirement to create a new Organizational Plan in collaboration with the Federal Monitor and sets forth various compliance related targets for NYCHA across major operational areas including: Lead, Mold, Heat, Elevators, Pest, Waste Management, and Inspections.

Under the direction of the Chief Operating Officer (COO), the Senior Advisor for Modernization Programs will be the point of contact and coordination between Operations and the Real Estate Development Department and the Asset & Capital Management Department for planning and implementation of any modernization efforts. NYCHA has three major modernization programs: Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT), the Housing Preservation Trust (Trust), and Comprehensive Modernization (CompMod). These three programs operate somewhat differently, are managed by different teams within the organization, and require different levels of involvement and cooperation from Operations. The Senior Advisor will be tasked with increasing Operations engagement and participation in the project planning within these programs and ensuring stronger program implementation.

Primary Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Senior Advisor include, but are not limited to the following:

- Serve as the COO’s primary liaison to NYCHA programs such as PACT, the Trust, and CompMod and ensuring that Boroughs, Neighborhoods, and individual properties are given updated and transparent information to prepare for compliance requirements and operational needs.
- Work closely with the modernization programs to develop clear programmatic pipelines.
- Coordinate with Strategy & Innovation and other teams in the preparation of Maintenance & Operations (M&O) budgets for Trust sites.
- Review potential operational changes required for successful management of CompMod sites.
- Coordinate with Learning & Development to plan and implement all required trainings for staff working at modernized properties to ensure skill sets match new equipment systems and service goals.
- Prepare project management plans for operational and tenancy work streams in preparation for conversion.
- As needed, visit and work from NYCHA developments and Borough offices to address and resolve various issues affecting Property Management Operations.
- Help coordinate major conversion efforts including voting, relocation, lease signing, and other efforts as needed.
- Participate in construction scoping discussions and ensure Operations requirements are represented in project scopes.

Act as Proxy of the COO
- Represent COO in meetings and on committees.
- Collaborate with the senior management team and provide project management and support, where necessary.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot key organizational challenges, as needed, on behalf of the COO.

Special/Strategic Projects
- Participate in the Fulton-Elliott-Chelsea Bridge Plan team and coordinate activities between teams.
- Evaluate, plan, and execute potential operational partnerships with development partners, including joint management prior to conversion and targeted system management post conversion.
- Oversee metric tracking and coordinate comparative data analysis of impact of modernization programs on residents and operations.

Additional Information

1. NYCHA employees applying for transfer, promotional, title or level change opportunities must have served a period of one year at current location and in current title and level (if applicable).
2. NYCHA residents are encouraged to apply.
3. NYCHA provides benefits that include a choice of medical coverage plans, deferred compensation plans and a defined pension benefit plan as a member of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS).

Please read this posting carefully to make certain you meet the minimum qualification requirements before applying to this position.

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1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four (4) years of satisfactory, responsible, full-time experience in a large government agency or business firm with programs in the field of housing, real estate/management, housing construction, engineering or a related field of which at least eighteen (18) months must have been in a responsible administrative, consultative, managerial or executive capacity; or

2. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" above. However, all candidates must possess the eighteen (18) months of administrative, consultative, managerial or executive experience as described above.

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.