Data Analyst

Agency Description: 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 Team: The Division of Building and Land Development Services (BLDS) leads the agency’s effort in providing architectural, engineering, cost valuation, environmental planning, and construction support services to the various divisions within HPD’s Office of Development. The Office of Development utilizes a public-private partnership model and provides loans, grants, and/or incentives to assist in the finance of housing development projects that will benefit low- and moderate-income New Yorkers.

BLDS is the largest division within the Office of Development with over 100 staff, and is composed of seven units, including: the Bureau of New Construction Design Services, the Bureau of Preservation Design Services, the Bureau of Engineering, the Bureau of Construction Services, the Environmental Planning Unit, the Program Management Unit, and the Executive Office.

Your Impact: As Data Analyst, you will report to the Deputy Director of Analytics, within the BLDS Executive Office. You will work with the six other BLDS units to facilitate the analysis of internal and cross-agency data, while identifying trends in housing development projects. In addition, you will develop metrics and prepare reports and analyses related to performance evaluation, compliance, projects, or other initiatives.

Your Role: The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor’s or Graduate Degree in a relevant field of study, such as Data Science, Urban Planning, or Public Administration. The ideal candidate will have superior data synthesis and management skills and be adept at utilizing data management tools.

Your Responsibilities:

• Data management: maintaining regular reporting and analyses, including bi/weekly MMR reports, project summary analyses, and annual reports.
• Performance management & evaluation: developing metrics on internal (BLDS) and external (Architects, Contractors, etc.) performance and workloads, resulting in new or updated analyses and summary reports, among others.
• Creating data visualization tools and materials for presentations.
• Maintenance of BLDS’ data systems, including monitoring reports, updating user guides and other informational documents, providing technical/procedural guidance, and troubleshooting, as needed.
• Brainstorming ways to improve the integration of BLDS’ data systems and datasets.
• Gathering and synthesizing data from several different sources.
• Participating in special projects, as necessary.

Preferred skills:

• Resourceful, proactive, and willing to learn new hard and soft skills; creative problem-solving and ability to think independently.
• Excellent communication, writing, critical thinking, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, ability to multi-task to meet deadlines, and ability to execute tasks independently.
• Attention to detail in working with large datasets that may not always be familiar.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with diverse technical specialists, and ability to learn and translate technical language into digestible and concise information for a wider audience.
• Experience with creating data visualization tools, and familiarity with SharePoint and SAS, Python, or other programming software/language. Coding experience is big a plus. Candidate may be asked to provide work samples.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, demonstrating high proficiency in Excel; candidate may be requested to provide work samples or to take a short test to demonstrate abilities.
• Previous experience in housing, architecture, construction, and related fields is a plus.

Candidate may be subject to a background investigation conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation.

Authorization to work in the United States is required for this position. The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development does not provide sponsorship for international employees for visa applications, extensions, or status changes, including H-1B visas. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they meet all qualifying requirements for this position at the time of application.

Minimum Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree in architecture from an accredited college or university and two (2) years of full-time experience in planning, design, research, investigations and/or studies related to urban design development programs; or
• A satisfactory combination of education and/or experience which is equivalent to ""1"" above. However, a baccalaureate degree in architecture is required of all candidates. Graduate work leading to an advanced degree in architecture, urban design or city planning maybe substituted for experience on a year-for-year basis.

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.