Director, Strategic Planning

Director Of Strategic Planning

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. 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.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Strategic Planning, the Director of Strategic Planning will :

• 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 :

Preferred Qualifications :

Note : 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.

City Research Scientist - 21744 Qualifications :

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 :

NOTE : Probationary Period Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

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 : $ 98,159.00 Salary Max : $112,883.00