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About the Role
The Senior Compliance Specialist will ensure MWBE participation on construction projects statewide financed through HCR’s programs. This role involves providing technical training and assistance, monitoring expenditures, analyzing data, and leading a team to ensure compliance with governmental housing regulations.
Responsibilities
- Providing technical training and assistance to project development teams
- Working with program staff from HCR’s construction finance teams
- Providing quarterly reporting
- Providing technical assistance to the MWBE/SDVOB community
- Encouraging MWBE/SDVOB certification
- Leading a team of Compliance Specialists and coaching peers
- Attending industry-related conferences and events
- Representing HCR in statewide MWBE and SDVOB forums
- Analyzing construction expenditure and MWBE/SDVOB utilization data to identify trends, discrepancies, potential risks, and opportunities for improvement
- Monitoring and reporting expenditures on projects financed by HCR programs
- Proactively identifying gaps in reporting and recommending solutions to improve accuracy and accountability
- Creating and maintaining data analysis
- Evaluating and advising on the organization, methods, and procedures for providing administrative support systems such as records, communications, directives, forms, files, and documentation
- Attending and leading meetings with General Contractors, legal, finance/accounting, and project management throughout the construction lifecycle to ensure compliance
- Compiling quarterly portfolio progress summaries with a team of Compliance Specialists
- Creating strategic plans to bring deficient projects into compliance
- Reviewing and compiling good faith efforts performed by external stakeholders
- Assisting in responding to audits, requests, and inquiries by supervising regulatory agencies
- Developing and maintaining trusting relationships with employees on worksites
- Some travel within New York State
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred with equivalent work experience
- Proficient in use of various computer software
- Excellent written/communication skills
- Data analysis experience in monitoring compliance with governmental housing regulations
- Knowledge of housing development process
- Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Public speaking experience
- Experience overseeing data quality assurance, compliance, or related data and reporting
- Strong skills in Excel, Power BI/Tableau, or similar data visualization tools
- Experience supporting or leading data system implementation and working with software developers
- Knowledge of New York State MWBE and SDVOB reporting and goal-setting processes preferred
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain data clearly to leadership
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across teams
Skills
- Data analysis
- Monitoring compliance with governmental housing regulations
- Housing development process
- Excel
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Data visualization
- Data system implementation
- New York State MWBE and SDVOB reporting
- New York State SDVOB goal-setting processes
- Communication
- Public speaking
Location
- New York State
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Five years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Benefits
- Extensive benefits package
- Paid leave
- Excellent health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Retirement benefits with the New York State & Local Employees’ Retirement System
- Promotional opportunity
- Work-life balance benefits
- 37.5-hour work week
- Paid time off
- Vacation days
- Sick days
- Personal days
- Federal Holidays
- Opportunity for compressed scheduling
- 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Family Leave
- Opportunity for compressed/flextime scheduling
- Eligibility for Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)
- Cash in for Wellness program
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Vacation Leave Buy-Back program
- Access to Plum Benefits
- Optical reimbursement program
- Hearing aid reimbursement program
- Podiatric expenses reimbursement program
About the Company
- New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) is the State’s affordable housing agency, with a mission to build, preserve, and protect affordable housing and increase homeownership throughout New York State.
- NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) is committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- The Department of Empowerment, Compliance and Opportunities (DECO) is responsible for monitoring the procurement activity of the integrated housing agencies which includes six Public Authorities and one Executive Agency.
- Under the leadership of Governor Kathy Hochul and Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas, HCR is a vibrant, innovative agency that integrates and leverages New York State’s housing resources.
- We have offices in New York City, Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse, and employ a diverse workforce of professionals who are hard-working and committed to serving low and moderate income families.
- Our mission is far reaching, encompassing single and multifamily housing finance, home improvement, rent regulation, housing subsidies, and community development.
- We partner regularly with a variety of public and private stakeholders.
- Achieving this mission requires a wide range of skills and backgrounds in public policy, administration, real estate, construction, finance, law, and many other areas of expertise.
- We seek to provide a workplace environment that is productive, flexible, accountable, ethical, and caring.
- Our employees are empowered to make a difference where they live and work.
- We offer competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package, including paid leave, health, dental, vision, retirement, and family-friendly policies.
Equal Opportunity
- NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) is committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- HCR is committed to developing a workforce which represents the diverse population of New York State.
- HCR embraces a diverse and inclusive work environment by encouraging all individuals, including all people with disabilities, to apply to open positions at the agency.