Legal 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.

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.

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

Duties include, but are 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 home ownership units from developers to individual homeowners.
• Serving as the main liaison with individual homeowners, developers and representatives of such developers in the processing of the sales of the home ownership units.
• Providing general assistance to the Deputy General Counsel for Real Estate Transactions, assisting HPD attorneys with the preparation of closing documents and other aspects of the real estate closing process, and working with HPD's program staff and outside attorneys involved in the closing of capitally funded projects.
• Performing 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.

• Excellent written and verbal communication 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, 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.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college and at least four years of full‑time progressively responsible clerical/administrative experience, requiring independent decision‑making concerning program management or planning, allocation of resources and the scheduling and assignment of work, with 18 months in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity. The supervisory work must have been over staff performing clerical/administrative work of more than moderate difficulty.
• Associate degree or 60 semester credits from an accredited college and at least five years of full‑time progressively responsible experience as described above, with 18 months in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity. The supervisory work must have been over staff performing clerical/administrative work of more than moderate difficulty.
• High school diploma or equivalent and at least six years of full‑time progressively responsible experience as described above, with 18 months in an administrative,…