Executive Agency Counsel
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.
Your Team
Within HPD’s Office of Legal Affairs is the Tax Incentives And Housing Supervision Division ("TIHSD"). TIHSD handles most legal issues relating to property tax exemptions and abatements, Mitchell Lama developments, Redevelopment Companies, and rent regulation.
Your Impact
As an Executive Agency Counsel you will be a senior legal advisor for the Agency in support of HPD's property tax exemptions and abatements.
Your Role
You will perform complex legal work in the areas under TIHSD’s jurisdiction. You may act as a liaison with the Law Department on important administrative law litigation affecting HPD programs and participate in drafting legislation and rules, holding public hearings, attending high-level meetings regarding Agency policy, and reviewing proposed City and State legislation.
Your Responsibilities
- Perform difficult and complex legal work related to tax incentives and housing supervision with significant financial, procedural and policy consequences, with a particular focus on litigation assistance related to tax incentives compliance enforcement and real property tax benefit application denials.
- Analyze federal, state and local statutes and regulations.
- Draft and/or review proposed state and local legislation and regulations as well as litigation papers prepared by the New York City Law Department.
- Counsel senior agency staff.
- Handle other complex legal issues.
Preferred Skills
- Excellent writing, legal research, and analytic skills, and attention to detail
- Ability to draft legislation and rules
- Ability to review and analyze proposed legislation and rules and digest impacts on the Agency
- Ability to liaise with litigation to protect Agency programs and processes
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work independently or as a part of a team
Minimum Qualifications
- Admission to the New York State Bar;
- Four years of recent full-time responsible, relevant, satisfactory legal experience subsequent to admission to any bar, eighteen months of which must have been in the supervision of other attorneys, in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity, or performing highly complex and significant legal work.