Senior Advisor Multifamily Climate Solutions

The City of New York is governed by the Mayor’s Office, which oversees city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration prioritizes making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and strengthening New York City’s economy. The city operates with core values of leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency, actively seeking diverse talents from various sectors to join its workforce.

The Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) is a specialized team composed of architects, lawyers, data and climate scientists, engineers, policy advisors, geologists, and city planners. This office is dedicated to creating a city where New York’s 8.8 million residents 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, working to make buildings efficient and resilient, infrastructure climate-ready, streets and open spaces active, safe, and healthy, and energy clean and resilient.

MOCEJ is committed to improving environmental quality for all New Yorkers, with a particular focus on prioritizing front-line communities and seeking to redress current and past injustices and inequities while creating economic opportunities. Through science-based analysis, policy and program development, and capacity building, MOCEJ leads the city’s efforts to ensure that New York City minimizes its contributions to climate change, prepares to adapt and protect New Yorkers from extreme weather and multiple climate hazards, and gives every New Yorker a meaningful voice in the 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. This position encompasses comprehensive project development and management, policy implementation, external relations and stakeholder engagement, and policy research and analysis.

You will serve as a key leader in connecting multifamily building owners, managers, and residents with the resources, tools, and support necessary to achieve climate and sustainability goals while improving resident comfort, safety, and health.

• 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…