Low Income Housing Compliance Associate/Mgr

Monitor Reporting & Compliance Performance: Maintain accurate tracking of file status, submissions, approvals, rejections, and outstanding items; prepare regular lease-up/compliance reports and identify trends or risks requiring management attention. Coordinate with Housing Agencies: Serve as a primary compliance liaison with applicable NYC housing agencies, managing submissions, approvals, agency inquiries, compliance flags, audits, and corrective actions.

Whitecap Search is seeking a detail-driven, mission-focused Compliance Manager to play a critical role in a transformative new affordable housing development in Willets Point, Corona, Queens. This position involves leading all compliance efforts related to the LIHTC lease-up phase, ensuring 100% adherence to federal, state, and local housing regulations. The Compliance Manager will collaborate with leasing, operations, and social services teams to ensure a smooth, timely, and fully compliant move-in experience for hundreds of new residents.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Lease-Up Compliance: Direct all compliance activities for the 461 LIHTC units within the 881-unit development, ensuring timely and accurate execution throughout lease-up.
• Manage Compliance Team: Supervise, coach, and develop a team of 6–10 Compliance Specialists, establishing weekly goals, workflows, productivity expectations, and quality standards.
• Conduct High-Volume File Review: Personally review up to 150 applicant/resident files per week, ensuring files are accurate, complete, properly documented, and eligible before agency submission.
• Ensure LIHTC & HOTMA Compliance: Maintain expert knowledge of LIHTC, HOTMA, AMI restrictions (30%–80%), income/asset qualification, household eligibility, and ongoing occupancy requirements.
• Establish Quality Assurance: Develop and maintain standardized file-review procedures, QA checklists, and controls to minimize errors, agency rejections, and compliance deficiencies.
• Coordinate with Housing Agencies: Serve as a primary compliance liaison with applicable NYC housing agencies, managing submissions, approvals, agency inquiries, compliance flags, audits, and corrective actions.
• Drive Lease-Up Execution: Partner with Leasing, Property Management, Operations, and Social Services to identify and resolve compliance issues that could delay approvals or resident move-ins.
• Oversee Regulatory Updates & Training: Stay current on changes to federal, state, and local regulations and ensure the compliance team is appropriately trained and implementing requirements consistently.
• Support Workforce Housing Compliance: Provide guidance and file-review support for 100%–120% AMI workforce housing, ensuring consistent income qualification and documentation practices across programs.
• Monitor Reporting & Compliance Performance: Maintain accurate tracking of file status, submissions, approvals, rejections, and outstanding items; prepare regular lease-up/compliance reports and identify trends or risks requiring management attention.

 

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of affordable housing compliance experience, with significant LIHTC experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supervising a compliance team.
• Experience with large-scale affordable housing lease-ups strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of LIHTC, income/asset qualification, AMI requirements, rent restrictions, and occupancy compliance.
• Working knowledge of HOTMA.
• Familiarity with New York City affordable housing programs and housing agency processes.
• Experience reviewing high volumes of applicant/resident files.
• Experience responding to agency inquiries, audits, compliance findings, and corrective actions.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy under significant time pressure.
• Strong organizational, communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, and affordable housing/compliance software.

 

Preferred Experience

• Managed a 400 unit affordable housing lease-up.
• Managed a team of 5 compliance professionals.
• Direct experience working with NYC housing agencies.
• Experience with developments containing multiple affordability tiers or subsidy programs.
• Experience creating QA systems, workflows, and compliance procedures for a new development.

 

Pandologic. Keywords: Regulatory Compliance Specialist, Location: Corona, NY - 11368