Planning Program & Implementation Director (Human Services, Housing & Preservation, Good Governance)

City of New York•New York, NY

17d•$120,000 - $130,000

About The Position

The City of New York Mayor’s Office of Equity & Racial Justice’s (MOERJ) compensation package includes a competitive market salary and exceptional benefits. MOERJ was established in October 2023 as the City of New York’s centralized agency to advance equity. Our mandate is rooted in a simple but powerful belief that every New Yorker deserves the chance to live, work, and thrive with dignity. To realize that vision, MOERJ brings together several key initiatives and offices, including the NYC Commission on Gender Equity (CGE), NYC Her Future (NHF), the NYC Young Men’s Initiative (YMI), and the LGBTQIA+ Office. Together, we create a unified framework for addressing the many ways inequity shows up in daily life.

Requirements

Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.
Associate degree from an accredited college or university along with two (2) years of experience with administrative, analytic, coordinative, supervisory or liaison responsibilities.
Four-year high school diploma, or its educational equivalent approved by a state's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization along with four (4) years of experience as described in question "2" above.
Satisfactory combination of education and/or experience equivalent to that described in questions "1," "2," and/or "3" above.

Responsibilities

Leads implementation, tracking, reporting, and refining of the city’s Racial Equity Plan in coordination with 4-5 managers. This includes but is not limited to: collaborating with roughly 25+ agencies/offices each, collaborating with leadership on review and process to publishing, communicating updates to agencies, as well as developing and managing progress reports.
Supervises, coordinates, and develops their team which manages a portfolio of City government agencies through the full racial equity planning process and advances equitable program and other plan strategy implementation.
Meets with individual managers and full team on a regular basis, including connecting with team committees and troubleshooting where needed, in partnership with one another.
Spearheads the development, implementation, and refinement of training/workshops and technical assistance practices, tools, and protocols to relay MOERJ’s standards and guidance as well as enable team to provide strategic guidance to portfolio agencies.
Co-develops and maintains internal tools to communicate MOERJ’s developments in racial equity policy, programs, messaging, and ideas to agencies.
Co-develops, implements, and refines standards that help MOERJ assess whether agencies are successfully executing racial equity plans and the City is moving towards overarching racial equity north stars and making progress on overall goals.
Maintains organizational tools to track agency progress and teamwork management using tools such as Airtable and Microsoft Sharepoint.
Ensures their team’s success in providing ongoing management and support to agencies so they can meet their racial equity plan goals.
Refines the racial equity planning process during each cycle.
Sets the tone for interagency representation of MOERJ.
Collaborates and coordinates with MOERJ colleagues and other city offices on different components of planning lifecycle.
Leads the strategic application of an equity lens across plan programs and other strategies, from design and investment to evaluation.
Works collaboratively to advance standardized agency practices to ensure MOERJ’s collaboration with agencies on implementation are positioned to help dismantle systemic barriers and drive measurable, equitable outcomes for residents.
Collaborate with Data & Performance Manager to translate impact for public communications.
Develop and/or deliver planning and program-related presentations and create public-facing briefs.
Co-develop proposals that direct resources to serve historically underserved populations and geographic areas, working to ensure investments target disparities.