Senior Advisor for Transformation & Delivery

City of New York • New York City, NY

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About The Position

The Senior Advisor for Transformation & Delivery will help advance the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s highest-priority initiatives by working across the agency to solve complex operational challenges and drive implementation. The role will support agency leadership in improving how HPD plans, executes, and delivers its work.

HPD oversees housing standards across New York City’s 3.7 million homes. It builds and preserves affordable housing, protects tenants from harassment and displacement, and holds landlords accountable across the five boroughs. Under Commissioner Dina Levy and the Mamdani Administration, HPD is pursuing a housing agenda focused on tenants, using standards enforcement, tenant resources, and affordable housing development to make New York City more affordable for renters and homeowners.

Requirements

• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex initiatives.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate broad or ambiguous priorities into clear, actionable plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information.
• Sound judgment and ability to work effectively with senior leaders and across organizational boundaries.
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of full-time, satisfactory professional experience in public and/or business administration, public relations, labor relations, fiscal/financial administration, or a related field; at least eighteen months must have been in an administrative, managerial, or executive capacity, or supervising professional personnel performing duties in one or more of those fields; or equivalent education and/or experience. All candidates must possess the eighteen months of supervisory, administrative, managerial, or executive experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in operations, strategy, process improvement, organizational change, management consulting, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-priority, cross-cutting initiatives from planning through implementation.
• Develop clear workplans, milestones, roles, and decision points to keep projects moving.
• Identify operational challenges and barriers to implementation and develop practical solutions.
• Coordinate across teams to resolve dependencies, risks, and competing priorities.
• Use data and other information to assess progress, identify issues, and recommend course corrections.
• Develop recommendations and materials to support senior leadership decision-making.
• Support the launch and stabilization of new initiatives, processes, and operating models.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior