Executive Director of Investigations and Labor Relations for OILR

Job Description

About the Agency:

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) oversees housing standards across all 3.7 million homes in New York City.

As the nation’s largest municipal housing agency, HPD is responsible for building and preserving affordable housing, protecting tenants from harassment and displacement, and holding landlords accountable across the five boroughs. Under Commissioner Dina Levy and the Mamdani Administration, HPD is pursuing an ambitious housing agenda focused on the needs of New York’s tenants. With a broad set of tools including standards enforcement, tenant resources, and the creation of new affordable housing, HPD is committed to making New York City a more affordable place for renters and homeowners alike.

Your Team:

As part of the Office of Administration for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which works closely with the Commissioner to achieve the agency’s mission, you will serve the entire Agency and support the needs of its various offices and divisions, as needed.

Your Impact:

As the Executive Director of Investigations and Labor Relations, you will serve as a key problem-solver and subject matter expert on disciplinary issues and labor relations for the largest municipal housing preservation and development agency in the nation.

You will ensure that the agency maintains a safe and respectful work environment for approximately 2,300 staff members located at six locations throughout the city. You will also ensure that all New Yorkers have safe and respectful interactions with all agency staff.

Your Role:

You will be responsible for overseeing a small team who investigate allegations of employee misconduct, providing recommendations on disciplinary actions, and advising on resolutions to organizational challenges. You will train managers and supervisors to identify and effectively address employee misconduct. You will also work report directly to the First Deputy Commissioner to achieve the unit’s mission.

You will serve as the agency’s labor point-of-contact and liaison with the NYC Department of Investigation in making referrals and assisting in joint investigations.

Your Responsibilities:

Investigations:

Overseeing the review of allegations and complaints of employee misconduct, leading investigations to determine if the allegations have been substantiated, providing confidential reports on investigations with recommendations to the Commissioner on punitive and restorative actions for any substantiated misconduct, and conducting settlement conferences with employees. Representing the Agency at administrative trials held at the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, in connection with substantiated disciplinary cases.

Labor Relations:

You will serve as the labor point-of-contact for the agency and provide recommendations to senior staff on organizational or policy changes to support a safe and respectful work environment. You will also liaise with the municipal labor unions on various labor-management issues, facilitate labor-management meetings, and resolve employee grievances.

Preferred skills:

• Extremely high sense of integrity, impartiality, and fairness.

• Demonstrated ability to make fact-based decisions unimpeded by bias.

• Litigation knowledge of administrative disciplinary proceedings.

• Demonstrated ability to exercise discretion in handling sensitive and confidential matters.

• Familiarity of civil service law and experience working within the constraints of civil service, as well as extensive knowledge of relevant city, state and federal laws.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills necessary to explain complex and/or confidential information and communicate with all levels of management.

• Professional-level computer skills, including Microsoft Office and similar programs.

Minimum Qualifications

Admission to the New York State Bar; and 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.

Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.

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Qualifications

Admission to the New York State Bar; and 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.

Incumbents must remain Members of the New York State Bar in good standing for the duration of this employment.

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.

Salary Min: $130,000.00

Salary Max: $135,000.00