Your Impact: The Director of Homeless Placement Services will help to ensure that homeless clients are able to access affordable housing opportunities through an equitable, centralized, efficient process, geared to result in successful permanent tenancies. Your Role: The Program is currently seeking a Director to supervise a team of Homeless Rental Coordinators, Data Analysts, and Team Leaders in the oversight of client placements. The Director will monitor staff productivity and ensure program referral and placement goals and targets are met and, ultimately, homeless households are linked to permanent housing as quickly as possible. Your Responsibilities: -Establishing and maintaining effective coordination with a variety of government partners such as the Department of Social Services (DSS), Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), the NYC Housing Development Corporation, and more -In coordination with HPDTech, managing the development, testing, training and roll-out of a new technology system that streamlines, automates, and facilitates reporting of the homeless placement process -Leading coordination and information-sharing with various divisions within HPD, housing developers, marketing agents, and other external partners -Establishing performance and workload metrics for the unit and regularly reporting on those measures for both internal and external users -Evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of various placement and coordination strategies and engaging in policy proposals to improve the process -Monitoring the work of a Deputy Director, Team Leaders, an Intake and Outreach Specialist, Homeless Rental Coordinators, and a Data Team; delegating tasks and setting deadlines for team members, and implementing new procedures and guidelines -Preparing and maintaining various reports and other tracking methods to ensure the consistent coordination of referrals and placements -Listening to team members' feedback and providing resolution, as needed, and conducting training to staff -Creating a motivational team environment with an open communication culture -Managing special initiatives as directed by the HPD and HAS leadership Preferred skills: -Knowledge of affordable housing programs and homeless services -Exceptional leadership skills and supervisory experience -Experience implementing significant technology, process, and policy changes -Strong communication skills, verbal and written -Experience with data-driven performance management -Strong analytical and organizational skills -High level of technical proficiency in Excel, Access, and other MS Office programs -Masters degree in urban policy, public administration, sociology, or a closely related field Authorization to work in the United States is required for this position. The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development does not provide sponsorship for international employees for visa applications, extensions, or status changes, including H-1B visas. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that they meet all qualifying requirements for this position at the time of application. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST ( - 1002D Qualifications 1. 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, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or 2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above. Additional Information