Senior Data Analyst, Division of Strategic Operations & Analytics

Job Description

About the Agency:

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (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:


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. To do so, OPS collaborates with staff and senior leadership from across the Agency, as well as with representatives from other Agencies. OPS carries out its work through delivery of rigorous data, policy, and financial/credit analysis; technical and statistical research; and techniques in program visioning and design to all of HPD’s areas of practice. OPS comprises the Division of Housing Policy, the Division of Research and Evaluation, the Division of Strategic Operations and Analytics, the Division of Sustainability and the Credit & Valuation team.


This Senior Data Analyst role is within the Division of Strategic Operations and Analytics (SOA), which works to increase HPD's impact by analyzing and improving operations agency-wide. We do this by clarifying HPD program missions, objectives, and stakeholders; implementing initiatives that advance HPD's goals; analyzing data to deliver actionable insights to HPD programs; and increasing the agency's overall ability to leverage data.

Your Impact:

As a Senior Data Analyst for Housing Production and Sustainability on the Data & Program Analytics (DPA) team within SOA, you will manage impactful analytic projects and initiatives to support HPD’s mission to provide secure and safe affordable housing in New York City. You will work in close partnership with HPD’s Office of Development, and HPD’s Chief Sustainability Officer.

Your Role

Reporting to the Executive Director, you will take initiative and apply advanced analytical skills to harness data in ways that strengthen program operations and maximize the impact of HPD’s capitally financed affordable housing programs, particularly in addressing affordability challenges and advancing climate resilience.

The Senior Data Analyst will lead in-depth analysis of:
- Affordability in capitally financed housing production, with a focus on serving the lowest-income households, including homeless, supportive, and senior populations.
- Cost drivers in affordable housing development, examining new construction, preservation, and supportive housing programs, including capital investment, total development costs, and financing structures.
- Financial impacts of proposed legislation and local laws, assessing how policy changes affect capitally financed affordable housing developments.
- Sustainability initiatives, analyzing energy performance benchmarking, Passive House standards, green housing program costs, and other sustainability mandates.

Your Responsibilities:

- Gather, prepare, and merge large datasets from disparate data systems to analyze development programs that ensure safe, affordable housing for New Yorkers.
- Support data-driven program operations by providing technical assistance to program staff on using data-driven management tools.
- Develop reports and dashboards to guide program design, operations, and performance evaluation, including:
o Conducting in-depth analyses on capitally financed new construction, preservation, and supportive housing programs, with a focus on cost, affordability, and sustainability.
o Providing data-driven policy recommendations informed by engagement with program staff, senior managers, and other stakeholders.
- Manage special projects that analyze complex policy and operational challenges related to HPD’s capitally financed housing production.
- Respond to data requests from programs, senior management, and external stakeholders, ensuring timely and insightful analysis.

Preferred skills

- Enthusiastic about using data to improve government operations and policies, with a willingness to learn new tools.
- Advanced ability to manage and analyze large datasets using programming languages such as Python, SQL, R, or Stata.
- Strong ability to synthesize complex ideas and communicate them effectively through writing, presentations, and visualizations.
- Meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to independently validate data integrity and analysis results.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; a collaborative team player who can also drive projects forward independently.
- Solid understanding of statistical methods and the ability to apply sound statistical techniques to quantitative research.
- Passion for and willingness to learn about housing issues relevant to New York City.
- Knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS), including geocoding and spatial analysis using ArcGIS or similar tools, is a plus.

Candidates without government experience with an interest in applying their skills to HPD’s mission are welcome to apply.

CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 21744

Qualifications

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in "2" above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in "1" and "2" above.

NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

Additional Information

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.