Senior Advisor Multifamily Climate Solutions

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The Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) is a team of architects, lawyers, data and climate scientists, engineers, policy advisors, geologists, and city planners working to create a city where our 8.8 million New Yorkers can live, work, learn, and play in healthy, resilient, and sustainable neighborhoods. MOCEJ integrates sustainability, resiliency, and environmental justice into one coordinated approach across several climate and environmental offices, all working to make our buildings efficient and resilient;

our infrastructure climate-ready; our streets, open spaces, and public realm active, safe, and healthy; and our energy clean and resilient. All New Yorkers deserve safe, healthy, resilient, and sustainable environments, even as the climate changes.

MOCEJ is committed to improving environmental quality for all, prioritizing front-line communities, seeking to redress current and past injustices and inequities while creating economic opportunities for all. Through science-based analysis, policy and program development, and capacity building, MOCEJ leads the City’s efforts to ensure that New York City is minimizing its contributions to climate change, preparing to adapt and protect New Yorkers from extreme weather and multiple climate hazards, and giving every New Yorker a meaningful voice in our city’s future.

As the Senior Advisor for Multifamily Housing Climate Solutions, you will lead MOCEJ’s efforts to accelerate building decarbonization and resiliency across New York City’s multifamily housing stock. Reporting to the Director Climate Financing Strategist, you will guide program strategy, stakeholder engagement, and policy development to support compliance with Local Law 97 and other building sustainability requirements.

• Lead and manage a citywide Co-op Solutions Hub within the NYC Accelerator program to support multifamily affordable housing buildings and other buildings serving low- and moderate-income New Yorkers with Local Law 97 and other local building sustainability laws compliance.
• Provide direction and oversight to a team within the NYC Accelerator program to connect multifamily building owners and managers with technical and financial resources, tools to find service providers, and support to maximize the J-51R tax abatement and other incentives.
• Provide technical housing finance and regulatory expertise to define MOCEJ’s programmatic goals, and work to increase adoption of scalable, replicable energy efficiency and carbon reduction solutions that improve resident comfort, safety, and health.

• Develop and advance medium- and long-term goals and policy initiatives to expand resources available to multifamily housing for decarbonization and resilience, working through agency partner development, City leadership review, and engagement with State agencies. This includes the development of governance structures necessary to implement new tools, creation of new financing and incentive programs and…