Job DescriptionThe Agency You’ll Join:The NYC Mayor's Office administers all city services, public property, most public agencies, and enforces all city, state, and federal laws within New York City. New York City’s Mayor, Eric Adams is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. Mayor Adams has served the people of New York City as an NYPD officer, State Senator, and Brooklyn Borough President. The Adams’ Administration is leading the fight to make New York City’s economy stronger, reduce inequality, improve public safety, and build a stronger, healthier city that delivers for all New Yorkers. As an agency, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. For current job opportunities visit our careers page.The Team You’ll Work With:The Office of the Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives ensures that City government solves problems through holistic, accountable, and transparent means. With a focus on many of the administration’s top priorities – from creating opportunities for young people to strengthening the city’s 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 Deputy Mayor also oversees the following agencies and offices: the Department of Youth and Community Development, the Office of Food Policy, the Office of Non-Profit Services, the Office of Childcare and Early Childhood Education, the Center for Innovation through Data Intelligence, the Office of Youth Employment, the Children’s Cabinet, and the Commission on Gender Equity.The Problems You’ll Solve: You will help oversee priority initiatives across the Deputy Mayor’s portfolio of agencies and business units, making key recommendations and decisions on several portfolios. You will manage a team of Senior Advisors and work alongside staff, serving as the primary liaison between the Deputy Mayor, agencies, and business units to report on engagement efforts and initiatives of business units, agencies, non-profits organizations and CBO’s. Principal Advisor
Advises the Deputy Mayor of Strategic Initiatives on a wide range of priorities.
Develops long-term planning centered around Mayoral and agency priorities.
Manages a team of senior advisors who assess policy related initiatives on an ongoing basis, such as
Early Childcare & Childhood Education, Equity, Non-Profits, The Mayor’s Fund and City Affiliated
Non-Profits, and other Deputy Mayor and Mayoral priorities.
Makes key decisions and recommendations to the Deputy Mayor and where applicable the Mayor to
expand DMSI initiatives.
Works closely with the Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer to manage communications planning
and coordination with all agencies under the Deputy Mayor’s portfolio and unit leadership. Coordinate
key projects (agency, inter-agency and otherwise) centered on city efficiency, agency, and stakeholder
collaboration.
Lead the charge in ensuring coordination and joint efforts between OCCECE, MONS, MOERJ, Mayor’s
Fund on priority DM & Mayoral initiatives.
Quantitatively and qualitatively assess policy related initiatives on an ongoing basis and make
recommendations and/or presentations, briefings to stakeholders and Mayoral officials, making sure to
appropriately communicate pertinent and sensitive information.
Represent the Deputy Mayor at meetings with stakeholders, staff, and internal and external
committees, etc., to develop and sustain positive relationships and networks, gather information,
opinions, and attitudes, identify stakeholder needs, provide interpretation and clarification, develop
response options, and generate cooperation policy initiatives.
Analyze and make recommendations on projects that raise issues and/or concerns.
Creating alignment between policies, practices, and regulations across agencies.
Establishing clear and consistent communications with internal and external stakeholders,
communicating goals, timelines, and deliverables
Working closely with the Deputy Mayor and advisement team to continue the development and
implementation of the Childcare Blueprint 2.0 – across multiple agency partners.
QualificationsA Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and three years fulltime satisfactory professional experience related to the projects and policies to be studied in the particular position including eighteen months of experience in a managerial, consultative, administrative or supervisory capacity.Additional InformationThe 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.