Legal Support for the Contracts and Real Estate Division

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:

Within HPD’s Office of Legal Affairs (OLA’s), the Contracts and Real Estate Division (CRED) handles, among other things, all of HPD’s legal work related to real estate development, land-use planning, and asset management. The division’s primary responsibility is to provide legal services to the Agency’s affordable housing development programs, including by advising on real estate financings, sales and leases of City-owned property, and affordable housing regulatory agreements, and by closing the Agency’s real estate transactions. The division is also responsible for advising on planning, pre-development, and asset management matters and affordable housing development policy and program design and implementation.

Your Impact:

You will be part of a talented team of attorneys and legal support staff that provides important legal services to the public and the agency as it executes the City’s ambitious housing plan.

Your Role:

Your role will be to support a team of attorneys and various program staff at the agency on real estate and housing matters.

Your Responsibilities:
Duties include but not limited to assisting attorneys in the closing and processing of affordable housing transactions, including review and processing of certificates of completion for such affordable projects, and review and processing of sales of homeownership units from developers to individual homeowners.
Serve as the main liaison with the individual homeowners, developers and representatives of such developers in the processing of the sales of the homeownership units.
Provide general assistance to the Deputy General Counsel for Real Estate Transactions, assist HPD attorneys with the preparation of closing documents and other aspects of the real estate closing process, and work with HPD's program staff and outside attorneys involved in the closing of capitally funded projects. Perform pre-closing and post-closing administrative functions on capitally funded projects, including the review of end loan closing documents and the processing and approval of certificates of completion.


Required skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Ability to work productively and collaboratively as part of a team.
- Ability to adapt and grow in response to feedback.
- Openness to embracing new technologies.
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal, communications, and organizational skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a client-centered approach to service delivery.
- Ability to adapt to a fluid work environment with changing needs and priorities.
- Only candidates permanent in the Administrative Manager or comparable titles may apply.

Note: Only candidates permanent in the admin manager or comparable title may apply.

ADM MANAGER-NON-MGRL FRM M1/M2 - 1002C

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory, full-time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience requiring independent decision-making concerning program management or planning, allocation for resources and the scheduling and assignment of work, 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity. The supervisory work must have been in the supervision of staff performing clerical/administrative work of more than moderate difficulty; or
2. An associate degree or 60 semester credits from an accredited college and five years of satisfactory, full-time progressively responsible experience as described in "1" above, 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity. The supervisory work must have been in the supervision of staff performing clerical/administrative work of more than moderate difficulty; or
3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of
satisfactory, full-time progressively responsible experience as described in "1"
above, 18 months of which must have been in an administrative, managerial,
executive or supervisory capacity. The supervisory work must have been in the
supervision of staff performing clerical/administrative work of more than
moderate difficulty; or
4. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. However, all
candidates must possess the 18 months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described in "1", "2" or "3" above. Education above
the high school level may be substituted for the general clerical/administrative
experience (but not for the administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory
experience described in "1", "2" or "3" above) at a rate of 30 semester credits
from an accredited college for 6 months of experience up to a maximum of 3½
years.

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.