Compliance Specialist

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation Development (HPD) promotes quality and affordability in the citys housing and diversity and strength in the citys neighborhoods because every New Yorker deserves a safe affordable place to live in a neighborhood they love.

We maintain building and resident safety and health
We create opportunities for New Yorkers through housing affordability
We engage New Yorkers to build and sustain neighborhood strength and diversity.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness Mayor Adams comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding bringing the 10year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the citys history. This investment coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers is a multipronged strategy to tackle New York Citys complex housing crisis by addressing homelessness and housing instability promoting economic stability and mobility increasing homeownership opportunities improving health and safety and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.


Your Team
The Compliance Specialist will play a key policy and implementation role for the new Office of Compliance & Risk Management (CRM). This Office is centralizing various compliance oversight and hearing functions from across the agency critical to ensure fairness consistency and equity in both our external and internal engagement. CRM will collaborate with programs across HPD to ensure the agency and its partners comply with laws (federal state and city) regulatory requirements policies and procedures. The Office includes the following Divisions and units:
Adjudications
Economic Opportunity & Regulatory Compliance
Public Information
Audit Support

Your Impact
CRM will be responsible for coordinating the agencys compliance programs liaising with the units and staff responsible for relevant compliance responsibilities audit responses site standard adherence for financed construction work publicfacing appeals and hearings and managing risk for the agency. The Compliance Specialist will have the opportunity to use their expertise to provide leadership and technical assistance for CRM and compliance functions throughout the agency. This role will also provide a unique opportunity to help build out a new office strengthen agency compliance culture and ensure compliance is seamlessly integrated into HPD program administration and operations.

Your Role
Reporting to the CRM Chief of Staff the Compliance Specialist will support CRM programs manage crossagency compliance programmatic and reporting obligations and provide technical assistance to compliance staff throughout the agency. The person in this role will work closely and liaise with all the Offices within HPD including Legal Affairs Policy & Strategy Finance & Administration Development Housing Access & Stability Asset & Property Management and Neighborhood Strategies for effective monitoring tracking and coordinating of agency requirements.

Your Responsibilities
The Compliance Specialist is responsible for ensuring HPDs ongoing reporting requirements for its many compliance activities. This involves monitoring legislative and regulatory changes assessing their impact and risk related to HPD programs and operations and coordinating reporting requirements across the agencys departments. This includes:
Inventory coordinate and monitor agency compliance requirements.
oDevelop and maintain systems to track and analyze new and amended federal state and local laws to identify potential compliance and reporting obligations for HPD.
oPrepare and/or act as the point person for the timely submission of mandated reports for a specific portfolio of federal state and/or local mandates.
oWork closely with program areas to identify compliance requirements and provide guidance and support to ensure their readiness for reporting deadlines.
Monitor regulatory changes and keep stakeholders abreast of operational or other implications.
oCreate training materials and other resources to support programs based on research surveys and accepted best practices.
Work with CRM leadership to build and maintain a broad network of staff throughout HPD who do or are interested in compliance work.
Collaborate with other City agencies and Mayoral offices to respond to Requests for Information contribute to public comments etc.
Provide outreach and education to external partners to ensure agency compliance as needed
Assist the Chief Compliance Officer with special compliance projects as needed.

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 :

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters 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:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.

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

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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime