Senior Advisor for Transformation & Delivery

New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

City of New York seeks a Senior Advisor for Transformation & Delivery to advance HPD’s priority initiatives by coordinating across the agency and solving complex operational challenges. You will drive implementation, planning, and execution to improve how HPD plans, executes, and delivers critical work.

You will support senior leadership with clear recommendations, work plans, and practical solutions, helping launch new initiatives and stabilizing processes across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate broad or ambiguous priorities into clear, actionable plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including syntheses of complex information.
• Sound judgment and ability to work with senior leaders across boundaries.
• Experience in operations, strategy, process improvement, organizational change, or management consulting.

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 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.

Skills

Project management

Analytical thinking

Planning & prioritization

Written and verbal communication

Judgment & executive interaction

Operations/strategy/change

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

None

Job description

About the Agency

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) oversees housing standards across all 3.7 million homes in New York City. As the nation’s largest municipal housing agency, HPD is responsible for building and preserving affordable housing, protecting tenants from harassment and displacement, and holding landlords accountable across the five boroughs. Under Commissioner Dina Levy and the Mamdani Administration, HPD is pursuing an ambitious housing agenda focused on the needs of New York’s tenants. With a broad set of tools including standards enforcement, tenant resources, and the creation of new affordable housing, HPD is committed to making New York City a more affordable place for renters and homeowners alike.

Your Role

The Senior Advisor for Transformation & Delivery will help advance HPD’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.

Your 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.

Preferred Skills & Experience

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

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Minimum Qualifications

1. 1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of full-time, satisfactory professional experience in one or more of the following fields: public and/or business administration, public relations, labor relations, fiscal/financial administration or a related field; at least eighteen months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity or supervising professional personnel performing duties in one or more of the fields described immediately above; or
2. 2. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1" above. However, all candidates must possess the eighteen months of supervisory, administrative, managerial or executive experience as described in "1" above.

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.

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.