Administrative Assistant
Housing Partnership Development Corporation – New York City, NY Position Overview The NYC Housing Partnership (www.housingpartnership.com), a leading affordable housing nonprofit in New York City, is seeking an administrative assistant to provide general administrative support to the marketing/compliance department. S/he will facilitate the marketing, lottery compliance, and tenant selection activities of affordable housing units in the organization's portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Be the point of contact for inquiries from the general public and provide relevant program information over phone or email
- Field and direct phone calls, emails, mailings, faxes of applicants to marketing managers / specialists
- Save Word, PDF, and JPEG documents
- Prepare initial and follow-up email and mailings to applicants
- Data entry updating tracking spreadsheets
- Facilitate in obtaining required third party documents for housing applications
- Assist in housing lotteries and other tasks as assigned
- Additional position related responsibilities as assigned/ needed
Qualifications
- Professional, calm, courteous demeanor and excellent communicator
- Self-motivated, demonstrates initiative and work ethic
- High level of attention to detail
- Excellent word processing abilities and writing skills (i.e. prepare/review documents with correct grammar, spelling and presentation)
- Ability to complete work well with limited supervision and under pressure
- Excellent organizational, and multi-tasking skills; Ability to manage work load and meet multiple deadlines
- Proficiency with Microsoft Windows operating system, Word, Excel and Outlook programs
- BA / Associate Degree preferred
- Bi-lingual in Spanish a plus but not required
- Notary public a plus
- Authorization to work in the U.S. required
Housing Partnership Development Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and affords equal opportunity to all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, handicap or disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Please send cover letter and resume to htrinidad@housingpartnership.com. EOE; M/F/D/V