Senior Advisor for Strategy & Special Projects

The Agency You’ll Join: The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City’s economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team. For current job opportunities, visit our careers page.

The Team You’ll Work With: The Mayor’s Office for International Affairs connects New York City to the world by building partnerships with the international community, including the United Nations, foreign governments, consulates, trade missions, and global city networks. As home to one of the world’s largest immigrant populations and the headquarters of the United Nations, New York City is uniquely positioned to serve as a global center for solidarity, collaboration, and problem-solving. The Office advances the City’s priorities through international cooperation and city diplomacy, strengthening relationships between international partners, City agencies, and local communities. Through diplomatic engagement and global partnerships, the Office works to elevate the voices and diversity of New Yorkers while ensuring that global cooperation delivers tangible benefits for working people across the five boroughs.

The Problems You’ll Solve: The Senior Advisor for Strategy & Special Projects serves as a senior advisor to the Commissioner and helps turn the Mayor’s international priorities into a focused program of work. The Senior Advisor drives projects across the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, bringing teams together, pushing initiatives from idea to execution, and ensuring the Commissioner’s priorities translate into action. Working closely with City Hall, City agencies, and international partners, the role also provides strategic scheduling and executive coordination for the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners and supervises communications to ensure the Office’s international work is clear, accessible, and connected to the lives of New Yorkers.

Specifically, the Senior Advisor will:

• Drive implementation of the Commissioner’s priorities across all divisions, ensuring ideas move from strategy to execution.
• Lead cross-office projects and coordinate Deputy Commissioners, Directors, City agencies, City Hall, and external partners around shared priorities.
• Manage project plans, timelines, deliverables, and accountability for the Office’s highest priority initiatives.
• Provide strategic scheduling and executive coordination for the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners, aligning meetings and engagements with the Office’s priorities.
• Supervise the Office’s communications function and support the Commissioner with briefings, messaging, and strategic advice.
• Lead special projects and other priority initiatives on behalf of the Commissioner.

About You:

• You have demonstrated supervisory or management experience, including experience leading staff, coordinating teams, or overseeing organizational functions.
• You have demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, deadlines, and competing priorities.
• You have strong knowledge of New York City government and/or international institutions and multilateral fora; familiarity with international law or diplomatic protocol is a plus.
• You have excellent strategic, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior officials, City agencies, and external partners.

Additional Information

• In addition to the resume, a cover letter is required to apply.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in government, international affairs, public policy, project management, operations, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Complex Project Management: You can manage high-priority initiatives from strategy through execution, with strong accountability for timelines and deliverables.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: You can coordinate teams and stakeholders around shared priorities and move complex projects forward.
• Strategic Judgment & Executive Coordination: You have strong organizational and strategic judgment, with the ability to manage competing priorities and support senior-level engagements.
• International Law & Diplomacy: You have knowledge of international law, diplomatic practice, and intergovernmental affairs is a plus.
• You have multilingual capacity.

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 the interview.