Deputy Director, Office of Investigations and Labor Relations; OILR), Division Deputy Commissioner

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.

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.

The Office of Investigations and Labor Relations (OILR), part of the Office of the First Deputy Commissioner at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, supports the agency’s mission by serving all divisions and offices to address a wide range of operational and personnel matters across the organization.

HPD is an agency of over 2,000 employees dispersed among multiple divisions responsible for everything from enforcing housing code, developing new building projects, and administering the Section 8 program. The candidate will be expected to perform highly confidential and sensitive investigations into misconduct and incompetence of all agency employees, looking into issues ranging from performance to falsifying records to criminal behavior, as well as assist in navigating relations between management and labor unions regarding employee concerns.

The role of the Deputy Director of OILR will be conducting investigations, supervising subordinate staff investigating allegations of employee misconduct, assigning work to investigators, and training new employees. As a Deputy Director, the candidate will fill in for the Director managing investigations and dealing with labor issues when they are absent from the office. They will provide recommendations on punitive and restorative actions and advise on resolutions to organizational challenges.

Additionally, the candidate will be running the Critical Driver program for the entire Agency, coordinating with General Services and driver liaisons across every Division. They will assume responsibility for OILR's internal special projects, such as digitizing old disciplinary cases and creating a training manual for future investigators.

The primary duties and responsibilities of the Deputy Director of OILR will be to

• Conduct and supervise investigations into employee misconduct.
• Train and supervise interns and college aides who work in the unit on various projects.
• Serve as a key problem-solver and subject matter expert on disciplinary issues and dispute resolution and provide recommendations to senior staff on organizational or policy changes.
• Serves as a liaison with municipal labor unions on various labor-management…