Policy Advisor, Multifamily Climate Solutions

• Full-time
• Agency: DEPT OF ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
• Job Category:
  Engineering, Architecture, & Planning
• Salary Band: $90,000 to $100,000
• Compensation: USD 90,000 - USD 95,000

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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 Policy Advisor for the Multifamily Housing Climate Solutions, you will support MOCEJ’s efforts to accelerate building decarbonization and resiliency across New York City’s multifamily housing stock. Reporting to the Director for Sustainable Buildings, you will advance program delivery, engage with stakeholders, and support policy development to advance Local Law 97 compliance and building sustainability requirements.

• Support implementation and operations of a citywide Co-op Solutions Hub within the NYC Accelerator program to advance multifamily building compliance with Local Law 97 and other local building sustainability laws.
• Provide general support across the NYC Accelerator program with a focus on multifamily buildings.
• Lead and coordinate workshops with the NYC Accelerator team, via organizing cohorts of similar multifamily buildings such as cooperative housing, condominiums, and affordable housing.
• Identify barriers to decarbonization in multifamily buildings and opportunities to overcome them.

• Act as a point of contact for cooperative housing boards and facilitate connections to city and state administrators to streamline LL97 compliance and other administrative processes.
• Support coordination and collaboration with partner agencies, community-based organizations, and advocacy groups, as well as with The Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums.
• Attend co-op, condo, and multifamily-related…