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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:

The Office of Development leads the implementation of the Mayor’s Housing Plan to create or preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. This is performed in close collaboration with HPD colleagues, other City and state agencies, and the New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

The Office of Development is composed of six divisions:

• Division of Building & Land Development Services

• Division of Housing Incentives

• Division of New Construction

• Division of Preservation Finance

• Division of Property Disposition and Finance

• Division of Special Needs Housing

Your Impact:

The Tax Incentive Programs unit within the Division of Housing Incentives, administers a wide variety of tax abatement and exemption programs to facilitate private and publicly-subsidized rehabilitation and new construction and rehab programs throughout New York City. As a J-51 Analyst for the Tax Incentive Program, you will gain invaluable knowledge in one the most complex and sought after tax benefits for rehabilitated residential buildings.

Your Role:

Under general supervision, the J-51 Analyst will perform responsible work in the review and analysis of J-51 tax exemption and abatement for residential rehabilitation. The review regularly involves coordination with the private sector and other city and state agencies.

Your Responsibilities:

• Understands rules, regulations and policies of the J-51 program;

• Reviews and assesses applications for completeness and eligibility, and prepares files for supervisory review;

• Conducts research using public and internal databases to validate application information;

• Tracks status of applications and documentation received as well as generates correspondence;

• Identifies and analyzes eligibility issues and troubleshoots applications problems;

• Provides programmatic and technical guidance to filing agents and members of the general public on issues relating to the tax incentive application;

• Provides guidance to junior analyst on program details and application review;

• Monitor and maintain electronic data integrity and status of all assigned applications;

• Maintain complete and organized project files;

• Work with other Division staff to update and maintain tracking and case management systems and to compile Division-wide data for reports to senior managers, the New York City Mayor's Office and the City Council; and

• Assists Director and senior staff with special projects, as needed.

Preferred skills

• (1) A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community-centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or (2) high school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community-centered activities in an area related to the duties; or (3) education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in "1" above

• Candidates must have excellent verbal and written communication and strong interpersonal skills;

• Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects in a timely manner and to be a team player;

• Research and analytical skills;

• Keen attention to detail and organizational skills;

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; and

• Strong facility with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)

Qualifications

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or

2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or

3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in "1" above.

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.