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Job Description

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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 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, climate-adaptive, and mission-focused. To do so, OPS 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; and techniques in program visioning and design to all of HPD’s areas of practice. OPS comprises the Division of Housing Policy, the Division of Research and Evaluation, the Division of Strategic Operations and Analytics, the Division of Sustainability and the Credit & Valuation team.

This Data & Program Analytics Manager role is within the Division of Strategic Operations and Analytics (SOA), which works to increase HPD's impact by analyzing and improving operations agency-wide. We do this by clarifying HPD program missions, objectives, and stakeholders; implementing initiatives that advance HPD's goals; analyzing data to deliver actionable insights to HPD programs; and increasing the agency's overall ability to leverage data.

Your Impact:

The Data & Program Analytics Manager will manage impactful analytic projects and initiatives to support HPD’s mission to provide secure and safe affordable housing in New York City.

Your Role:

Reporting to the Executive Director of Data & Program Analytics, you will play a key role in leveraging data to improve operations and shape policy for HPD’s affordable housing lottery, homeless placement services, and other critical programs. This role requires independent initiative, strong analytical skills, and the ability to handle, merge, and clean large datasets. You will work both independently and collaboratively with SOA colleagues and program staff across the agency, with a primary focus on the Office of Housing Access and Stability. Proficiency in statistical analysis software is essential, and openness to learn automation tools such as Power Automate and Power Apps. SOA leadership is committed to supporting your professional development through mentorship and guidance, offering opportunities for growth in this high-impact role.

Your Responsibilities:

- Gather, prepare, and merge large datasets from disparate data systems to analyze different lottery initiatives and understand how New Yorkers access affordable housing through lotteries and homeless placements.

- Develop performance metrics for lottery and homeless placement programs to evaluate internal operational processes and support external reporting.

- Manage and analyze eviction filing data to assess eviction trends within the affordable housing stock and HPD’s investments.

- Prepare analytic reports to inform program design and performance, including models and dashboards that provide critical insights into agency operations.

- Support data-driven program operations by providing technical assistance to program staff on using data-driven management tools.

- Support the development of strategies for data integration and automation, expanding tools for effective data analysis and reporting.

- Assist SOA colleagues with quantitative analysis, including reviewing and providing feedback on programming code.

- With guidance from SOA leadership, respond to ad hoc data requests from programs, senior management, and external stakeholders.

- The Manager may grow over time, with support from SOA leadership, to supervise one analytic staff.

Preferred skills

The ideal candidate will be an inquisitive self-starter who is eager to grow and take on new responsibilities, with the following skills:

- Enthusiastic about using data to improve government operations and policies, with a willingness to learn new tools.

- Advanced ability to manage and analyze large datasets using programming languages such as Python, SQL, R, or Stata.

- Strong ability to synthesize complex ideas and communicate them effectively through writing, presentations, and visualizations.

- Meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to independently validate data integrity and analysis results.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; a collaborative team player who can also drive projects forward independently.

- Solid understanding of statistical methods and the ability to apply sound statistical techniques to quantitative research.

- Passion for and willingness to learn about housing issues relevant to New York City.

- Knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS), including geocoding and spatial analysis using ArcGIS or similar tools, is a plus.

Candidates without government experience with an interest in applying their skills to HPD’s mission are welcome to apply.

CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 21744

Qualifications

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.

Additional Information

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.

Salary Min: $ 84,981.00

Salary Max: $ 97,728.00