Position Summary: New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) is dedicated to ensuring that all students and staff learn and work in safe, clean, and fully operational environments. School Buildings manage approximately 130 million square feet across more than 1,600 sites citywide, supported by a diverse team of over 500 mechanics, 900 custodian engineers, and 300 professionals in facilities management, engineering, environmental health, construction, and administration.
The Associate Director, Budget will provide oversight of budgeting and financial planning processes essential to sustaining the district's facilities and operations. This role is critical in allocating financial resources across maintenance, repairs, and other departments, ensuring funds are used effectively to support safe and well-maintained school environments. The position will conduct budget forecasting, prepare financial analyses, and ensure compliance requirements are met. Performs related work.
Reports to: Senior Director, Budget
Direct Reports: Support Staff
Key Relationships: Works closely with and collaborates with the other Office of School Facilities verticals, Finance Office, in addition to maintaining working relationships with high-level senior administrators, directors and managers within NYCPS.
Responsibilities - Develops, implements, and oversees budgeting methods, procedures, and plans.
- Prepares detailed budgetary, financial, and other complex accounting reports, ensuring accuracy and compliance with district policies, state regulations, and federal laws.
- Creates, revises, and implements financial manuals, policies, and procedures, making recommendations to ensure alignment with district priorities and compliance requirements.
- Leads meetings with internal stakeholders, addressing budgeting and financial concerns.
- Prepares comprehensive, needs-based expense budgets, conducts budget forecasting, and adjusts allocations to accommodate evolving financial conditions, ensuring resources are effectively prioritized.
- Monitors budget performance, identifying variances, and provision of data-driven recommendations to district leadership on financial strategies, resource distribution, and cost management.
- Contributes to initiatives for major budget systems or programs, solving complex financial issues where precedents are unclear, ensuring solutions meet emerging needs and have a significant impact on the district and community.
- Contributes to research on complex financial problems, providing creative solutions to meet evolving financial demands.
- Allocates expense funds for maintenance, repairs, staffing, and capital improvement projects, prioritizing expenditures based on critical needs.
Qualification Requirements: Minimum A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, or a closely related field and one year of satisfactory full-time professional experience in budget administration, economic or financial administration, fiscal or economic research; management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; educational, personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, labor relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, fiscal management, or a related area, for educational program(s) and/or institution(s); or A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and three years of satisfactory full-time professional experience as described in "1" above. Preferred - Experience with analyzing budgets, expenditures, and large data sets.
- Prior success in the management of multiple projects.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 applications.
- Excellent communication skills, both spoken and written.
- Experience in risk management and cost control.
Salary : $113,862 - $121,000
(Internal candidates who are selected for this position and who currently hold comparable or less senior positions within the DOE will not earn less than their current salary.)
Please include a resume and cover letter with your application. NOTE: The filling of all positions is subject to budget availability and/or grant funding. * New York City Residency is NOT Required * We encourage all applicants from the New York City tri-state area to apply. 
