Director, Strategic Planning

Austin Community College; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Public service loan forgiveness eligibility

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

A local community college in New York City is seeking a Strategic Planning Supervisor to facilitate sessions, engage with leaders on strategic challenges, and manage diverse projects. The ideal candidate will have strong facilitation and leadership skills, a graduate degree in a relevant field, and experience in strategic planning. This role includes the potential for remote work options and a focus on improving government effectiveness in housing quality and affordability.

Qualifications

• Experience researching and analyzing qualitative information to identify insights.
• Capacity for inspiring teamwork and promoting staff development.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Design and facilitate sessions with agency staff and stakeholders.
• Engage with leaders to examine strategic challenges.
• Supervise and support Strategic Planning staff on diverse projects.
• Manage strategic planning projects with active stakeholder engagement.
• Support the design of new and existing programs.

Skills

Facilitation skills

Leadership skills

Verbal and written communication

Project management

Education

Graduate degree in a relevant field

Job description

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Agency Description: The New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development (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.

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. Within OPS, the Division of Strategic Operations and Analytics (SOA) works to increase HPD’s impact by analyzing and improving operations agency-wide. As part of that work, SOA’s Strategic Planning unit leads initiatives that help agency teams clarify their core program objectives and enhance their business processes to achieve greater operational effectiveness and organizational capacity.

Responsibilities

• Design and facilitate sessions with agency staff, partners and/or members of the public. Develop activities to investigate, record, and later analyze qualitative information/data to inform decision-making or build consensus.
• Engage with leaders agency-wide to examine and prioritize strategic challenges and opportunities that affect HPD and/or the city as a whole, and that may involve intra-agency collaboration.
• Directly supervise and support Strategic Planning staff managing a diverse set of projects, maintaining active oversight of scope, timeline, and progress. Personally lead or conduct portions of the project work that require engaging with HPD senior and middle management as needed.
• Directly manage some strategic planning projects, ensuring each project is well-scoped and supported through proactive stakeholder engagement.
• Support the design or re-engineering of new/existing programs at HPD.
• Support efforts to build strategic planning competencies and capacity across teams at HPD.

Preferred Skills

• Demonstrated facilitation skills, and an ability to lead diverse groups of stakeholders through idea-generating and decision-making exercises.
• Experience researching, gathering, organizing, and analyzing qualitative information to identify patterns, insights, or opportunities for process improvement or decision-making. Ability to use independent judgment and initiative to evaluate procedures/programs and qualitative data the team gathered.
• Demonstrated leadership skills; capacity for inspiring teamwork and promoting staff development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and an ability to articulate information and recommendations clearly and persuasively.
• Experience simultaneously managing multiple complex projects.
• Interest in improving government effectiveness and in housing quality and affordability.

Preferred Qualifications

• A graduate degree in a relevant field (Public Administration, Public Policy, Business Administration, etc.) is strongly preferred.
• Experience in a work setting that used facilitation as a core method (eg., management or planning consultation) is strongly preferred.
• HPD or government experience is a plus.

Remote Work

This position is eligible for remote work up to two days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and DC37.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

Residency Requirement

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.