Integrity Review Director

Agency Description:

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.
The Division of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance:

The Division of Economic Opportunity and Regulatory Compliance (EORC) supports HPDs mission by reviewing the integrity of applicants seeking to work on HPD-supported projects and ensuring contractors comply with applicable labor and employment obligations. The division also assists HPD in implementing and enforcing socioeconomic diversity and inclusion requirements, and related programs, for procurement and development projects receiving financial assistance from the Agency.
Your Impact:

As the Director of Integrity Review Unit, you will serve under the direction of the Assistant Commissioner with great latitude for independent judgment and decision making, liaise with state and local government entities, conduct high level policy analysis, and make recommendations pertaining to government regulations. Duties and responsibilities include overseeing the day-to-day management and supervision of staff involved in important, difficult, and complex activities dealing with oversight and policy in the areas of procurement, due diligence requirements, contractual requirements, prevailing wage and labor law enforcement. The Director works in close coordination with the City Department of Investigations and other enforcement entities.

Your Role:

The Integrity Review Unit includes the agency’s Sponsor Review, Enhanced Review, and Executive Order 50 contractor clearance processes, conducting due diligence and compliance reviews to ensure that entities doing business with the City meet HPD’s standards and maintain nondiscriminatory hiring and employment policies.
As the Integrity Review Director, you would:
- Oversee HPD’s Integrity Review Unit, encompassing Sponsor Review, Executive Order 50 Compliance, and Enhanced Contractor Review.
- Act as liaison with peers and executive management in HPD’s Development and Asset & Property Management Divisions to clarify disclosure and review requirements for verifying the integrity of entities and individuals seeking to do business with HPD.
- Manage Integrity Review Specialists tasked with processing reviews of entities and individuals seeking to participate in HPD projects.
- Ensure developers, contractors, and subcontractors performing work on HPD-assisted projects meet labor law integrity standards and equal opportunity requirements under federal, state, and local laws.
- Oversee HPD’s Enhanced Contractor Review procedure, which provides additional oversight for vendors who have had or are having labor law compliance and/or construction quality issues.
- Create quarterly reports for executive management to quantify work done by the Unit.
- Make recommendations to executive management to optimize staff utilization and review throughput.
- Analyze roadblocks and troubleshoot complex problems to facilitate project closings.
- Act as liaison with the Department of Investigation, obtaining memorandums for time-sensitive project closings.
- Lead modernization efforts by assessing legacy systems and implementing new technology solutions and workflows to increase automation, improve data accuracy, and reduce manual burden in the contractor review and compliance processes. Collaborate with IT and cross-functional teams to design and deploy systems aligned with evolving regulatory requirements and user needs.

Preferred Skills:

Preference will be given to candidates with an advanced degree in public administration, community and economic development, public policy, business administration, law, compliance, or a related field. Preference will also be given to candidates who demonstrate the following:
- Exceptional project management, organizational, analytical, quantitative, and qualitative skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Exceptional presentation and interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, work independently, and manage multiple projects.
- Ability to assess complex situations and present concise, actionable solutions to executive decision-makers.
- Experience leading or supporting the migration of legacy compliance or due diligence processes to modern digital platforms, including database management, CRM systems, and workflow tools.
- Experience in managing information systems, databases, or other technology platforms to support operational performance and compliance tracking.
Minimum Qual Requirements

STRATEGIC INITIATIVE SPECIALIS - 13403

Minimum Qual Requirements

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two (2) years of full-time satisfactory professional experience in Public Administration, Business Administration, Accounting, Procurement, Regulatory Compliance, Banking, Finance, Economic and Workforce Development, Labor Relations, Public Policy, Urban Planning or related field and at least 18 months must have been in an executive, administrative or managerial capacity or supervising professional personnel performing work in the fields noted above; or
2. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" above. Graduate study in the field of Public Administration, Business Administration, Statistics, Public Policy, Urban Planning, or related field may be substituted for up to one year of the required experience based on 30 credits equaling one year of experience. Graduation from an accredited law school may be substituted for one year of the required experience. However, all candidates must have five years of work experience including at least 18 months of executive, administrative, managerial, or supervisory 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.