Deputy Advisor for Strategic Coordination and Chief of Staff

The Agency Youll Join:
The New York City Mayors Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs coordinating public agencies and departments and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable reducing inequality improving public safety ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services and working to make New York Citys economy stronger. We value leadership transparency fairness and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team. For current job opportunities visit our careers page.

The Team Youll Work With:
The Office of the First Deputy ensures that City government runs efficiently and focuses on many of the administrations top priorities from creating opportunities for young people to strengthening the citys civic infrastructure the office works in partnership with stakeholders inside and outside of city government to develop scale coordinate and deliver policies plans and operations in an equitable and sustainable way.

The Strategic Coordination and Operations team operates within the First Deputy Mayor portfolio by working to advance an effective coordinated whole-of-government approach to certain Mayoral priorities. The team supports agency partners through identifying and designing solutions to program challenges conducting research and analysis to support innovative approaches in furtherance of Mayoral priorities and developing policy operational and programmatic recommendations. Members of the team conduct research provide project management conduct data analysis and work alongside key city partners including the Law Department Office of Mass Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs team to deliver a multi-pronged strategy in support of city agencies and team members.

The team is responsible for supporting the implementation of Executive Order 12 and managing the goals of identified savings in the budget process. Further the team supports the First Deputy Mayor in managing the work of the Interagency Response Committee (IRC) as created by Executive Order 13. This work includes but is not limited to tracking federal actions that do or can impact the well-being of the city and New Yorkers. The team works collaboratively across agencies to respond to identified challenges and recommend solutions or strategies as needed.

The Problems Youll Solve:
The Deputy Advisor for Strategic Coordination and Chief of Staffs responsibilities include but are not limited to:

-Supporting the Special Advisor with day-to-day team management and project prioritization.
-Tracking and coordinating priority work across the team.
-Preparing for and participating in key internal and external engagements.
-Researching analyzing and producing brief memos and reports.
-Assisting with establishing standards and procedures.
-Support implementation and policy coordination between all teams and across city-wide agency partners and foster partnerships.
-Lead coordination across relevant operational agencies and in collaboration with City Hall colleagues.
-Ensure successful data analysis and development of dashboards.
-Directly oversee and support the management of the innovation team. Track projects in collaboration with the Director and advise on future initiatives in furtherance of Mayoral priorities.
-Directly manage the team executive assistant.
-Responsible for managing intergovernmental requests across the team.
-Manage and support HR and fiscal needs of the team.
-Represent the team or office as needed.

About You:
-You have excellent communication writing analytical and organizational skills.
-You have the flexibility to quickly shift work priorities to meet the demands of time-sensitive projects.
-You have superb research skills with the ability to synthesize large amounts of information for presentation to stakeholders and principals.
-You have strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
-You can develop and execute a strategic plan to meet goals without significant oversight.
-You can complete work independently with broadly defined work objectives and limited review of overall results.

Special Assistant (MA)-MGRL - 0668A

Qualifications :

-Bachelors Degree required.
-10 years of experience.

Additional Information :

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 individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time