HomeFirst Assistant Project Manager

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 agency's effort in implementing the Mayor's Housing Plan. This is achieved in close collaboration with HPD colleagues and other City and state agencies.


The Division of Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation (HOP) within the Office of Development creates and preserves affordable homes to facilitate generational wealth-building, maintain housing quality, and address the legacy of discrimination, segregation, and concentrated poverty. We do so by providing financial assistance to low- and middle-income homeowners, limited equity cooperatives, and community land trusts. Programs within the Division include:

- The Affordable Neighborhood Cooperative Program (ANCP), which selects qualified developers to rehabilitate distressed city-owned occupied multi-family properties, managed by the Tenant Interim Lease Program, to create affordable cooperatives for low- and moderate-income households.

- The Open-Door Program, which funds construction of cooperative and fee simple buildings to low, moderate- and middle-income families,

- Small Homes Rehab, which works with nonprofit developers to rehab existing public sites and privately owned 1-4 family homes to create affordable homeownership opportunities for low-income New Yorkers. Community Restoration Fund, which facilitate the acquisition of distressed mortgage notes from mortgage lenders and repositions these assets to preserve affordable homeownership and rental opportunities.

- The Plus One Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) program that finances ADU conversions in small homes,

- HomeFix and ProjectHelp programs provide access to affordable low- or no-interest and potentially forgivable loans and grants for home repairs as well as resiliency or energy efficiency improvements to eligible owners of one- to four-family homes in New York City in partnership with nonprofit organizations,

- The HomeFirst down payment assistance program, which provides financial assistance towards down payment and closing costs for first-time homebuyers,

- and special initiatives including Community Land Trusts, designed to ensure community stewardship of land and long-term housing affordability, and the Zombie Homes initiative, to facilitate repositing vacant and abandoned homes as affordable homeownership opportunities.



Your Impact:


The Division of Homeownership Opportunities and Preservation seeks an Assistant Project Manager to support the work of the HomeFirst Program. The HomeFirst Program provides qualified first-time homebuyers with up to $100,000 toward the down payment or closing costs on a 1-4 family home, a condominium, or a cooperative within New York City.


Your Role:


The Assistant Project Manager will be responsible for the providing support to the HomeFirst Project Managers and Directors to ensure successful management of project applications and procedures. The Assistant Project Manager will assist in application processing, maintaining post-closing loan records, and administrative tasks as assigned under the supervision of the HomeFirst Director and Deputy Director.



Your Responsibilities:


The Assistant Project Manager is responsible for:

- Conducting intake and processing of loan application packages by reviewing the primary mortgage and supporting documentation for accuracy, consistency and completeness and to ensure compliance with HomeFirst Term Sheet and program guidelines.

- Completing verification of applicant household and income eligibility, property eligibility and HomeFirst loan amount.

- Liaising with loan servicers, lending and counseling partners to obtain missing documentation and keep loan applications updated to maintain package integrity, quality control and compliance.

- Submitting completed and pre-approved application package to Program Director, or Deputy Director, or designee for final approval.

- Maintaining and organizing in-house project files and tracking of homebuyer post-closing files including assisting with the transfer and/or archiving of program files.

- Performing data entry and life cycle tracking for homebuyer project deals in HomeFirst Client Management System, in federal and other internal databases

- Compiling homebuyer pipeline data and generating reporting as assigned.

- Coordinating with loan servicers and bank attorneys to ensure executed enforcement documents are promptly delivered to the project closing, recorded and returned to HPD, post-closing.

- Completing property research of city register for HomeFirst program enforcement documents.

- Monitoring city register database to ensure recording/filing of city mortgages and liens.

- Assisting Project Managers and Senior Project Managers to complete due diligence on their project deals.

- Completing other various administrative tasks, as assigned.

The ideal candidate will have experience in a collaborative environment, possess strong organization and communication skills, be detail-oriented, and be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

Minimum Qualification Requirements


1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and two years of full-time, satisfactory professional 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.


Preferred skills bulleted

- Strong verbal and written communication and strong interpersonal skills.

- Strong facility with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other presentation software is preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects in a timely manner and to be a team player.

- Prior experience working with homeownership programs and/or program implementation experience, preferred.

- Knowledge of affordable and/CRA mortgage lending programs.

- Preference will be given to candidates with experience working for or with government agencies, knowledge and expertise in the federal HOME Investments Partnerships Programs and other government programs related to affordable housing development.

- Experience managing programs as well as seeking ways to improve programs and procedures;

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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.

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.