Head of Business Planning

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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.

Your Team: The Office of Policy & Strategy (OPS) leverages its expertise to guide and support HPD and its many Offices in their efforts to deepen their impact, optimize their efficiency, and become more data-driven, climate-adaptive, and mission-focused. Within OPS, the Division of Strategic Operations and Analytics (SOA) works to increase HPD’s impact by analyzing and improving operations agency-wide. As part of that work, SOA’s Strategic Planning unit leads initiatives that help agency teams clarify their core program objectives and enhance their business processes to achieve greater operational effectiveness and organizational capacity.

Develop activities to investigate, record, and later analyze qualitative information/data to inform decision-making or build consensus.

Directly supervise and support Strategic Planning staff managing a diverse set of projects, maintaining active oversight of scope, timeline, and progress. Personally lead or conduct portions of the project work that require engaging with HPD senior and middle management as needed.

Directly manage some strategic planning projects, ensuring each project is well-scoped and supported through proactive stakeholder engagement.

Support efforts to build strategic planning competencies and capacity across teams at HPD.

Experience researching, gathering, organizing, and analyzing qualitative information to identify patterns, insights, or opportunities for process improvement or decision-making. Ability to use independent judgment and initiative to evaluate procedures/programs and qualitative data the team gathered.

Experience simultaneously managing multiple complex projects.

Interest in improving government effectiveness and in housing quality and affordability.

A graduate degree in a relevant field (Public Administration, Public Policy, Business Administration, etc.) management or planning consultation) is strongly preferred.

Remote Work

This position is eligible for remote work up to two days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed to between the City and DC37.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. Department of Education’s website at