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.

HPD is entrusted with fulfilling these objectives through the goals and strategies of “Housing Our Neighbors: A Blueprint for Housing and Homelessness,” Mayor Adams’ comprehensive housing framework. To support this important work, the administration has committed $5 billion in new capital funding, bringing the 10-year planned investment in housing to $22 billion the largest in the city’s history. This investment, coupled with a commitment to reduce administrative and regulatory barriers, is a multi-pronged strategy to tackle New York City’s complex housing crisis, by addressing homelessness and housing instability, promoting economic stability and mobility, increasing homeownership opportunities, improving health and safety, and increasing opportunities for equitable growth.

Your Team:

Within HPD’s Office of Legal Affairs (OLA’s), the Landlord Tenant Litigation Division (LTLD) handles, among other things, all of HPD’s legal work related to representing the agency in its management of city owned properties under the jurisdiction of HPD, including but not limited to bringing proceedings in Housing and Civil Court. The division also accepts service of legal process including subpoenas, summons and complaints and other legal papers. The division is responsible for entering the papers served into LTLD’s data base and forwarding the documents to the appropriate divisions within the agency for response, or where required to the Law Department of the City of New York.

Your Impact:

You will be part of a talented team of attorneys and legal support staff that provide important legal services to the agency and advice to the agency personnel.

Your Role:

Your role will be to support a team of attorneys and various program staff at the agency on landlord/tenant and housing court matters.

Your Responsibilities:
The candidate will provide administrative support services to the Deputy General Counsel for the Landlord Tenant Litigation Division (LTLD) and other attorneys and support staff in LTLD. Duties will include word processing, preparation, and distribution of daily court calendars. Responsibilities will also include accepting the service of subpoenas, summons, and other legal documents served on HPD. In addition, must property distribute legal documents to the appropriate divisions at HPD and the Law Department. The candidate must maintain and update on a regular basis all computer systems used by LTLD.

Required skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications 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, communications, 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

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1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and two years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties described above; or
2. High school graduation or equivalent and six years of experience in community work or community centered activities in an area related to the duties as described above; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least one year of experience as described in "1" above.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.

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Administrative Assistant for the Landlord Tenant Litigation Division