Job Information
City of New York Associate General Counsel in New York, New York
Job Description
About the Agency:
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.
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 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s 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:
Within HPD’s Office of Legal Affairs (OLA’s), the Contracts and Real Estate Division (CRED) handles, among other things, all of HPD’s legal work related to real estate development, land-use planning, and asset management. The division’s primary responsibility is to provide legal services to the Agency’s affordable housing development programs, including by advising on real estate financings, sales and leases of City-owned property, and affordable housing regulatory agreements, and by closing the Agency’s real estate transactions. The division is also responsible for advising on planning, pre-development, and asset management matters and affordable housing development policy and program design and implementation.
Your Impact:
As an Associate General Counsel, you will be a senior legal advisor to the Agency in support of the City’s ambitious affordable housing plan. You will also lead, support, and train a team of talented lawyers and support staff.
Your Role:
Your role will be to supervise a team of approximately 4-6 professionals who advise the Agency’s development programs on transactional real estate matters, in addition to associated offices on related matters. You will also provide legal advice and strategic guidance to senior Agency staff regarding real estate transactions and related issues. You will report to the Deputy General Counsel for Real Estate Transactions.
Your Responsibilities:
Supervise and mentor lawyers and support staff who advise on construction and permanent real estate financings, sales and leases of City-owned property, and affordable housing regulatory agreements, and who close the Agency’s real estate transactions.
Prepare and review, and supervise the preparation and review of, complex legal documents related to real estate transactions and governmental approvals.
Negotiate, and supervise the negotiation of, difficult and complex legal issues, transactions, and documents pertaining to the implementation of affordable housing capital programs.
Analyze federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
Provide legal advice and strategic guidance to senior Agency staff.
Work collaboratively with Agency colleagues and partners.
Preferred Skills:
Experience in a transactional real estate practice is required. Responsibilities will include supervising difficult and complex legal work with significant financial and procedural implications.
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Qualifications
Admission to the New York State Bar; and four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work.
Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.
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.
Salary Min: $140,000.00
Salary Max: $150,000.00