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Through its partnership with the City of New York, CUNY’s Building Performance Laboratory is hiring qualified energy management professionals to serve as on-site consultants and fill critical staffing capacity needs at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ (“DCAS”) Division of Energy Management (“DEM”). For background, DEM serves as the hub for energy management for City government operations. DEM develops the City’s annual Heat, Light, and Power Budget; manages the City’s electricity, natural gas, and steam accounts; helps agency partners identify and pursue energy-saving opportunities; does energy efficiency and clean power generation projects across the City’s portfolio; and implements operations and maintenance best practices. Specifically, DEM is tasked with leading the City’s efforts to reduce emissions from City government operations 40 percent by 2025, 50 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050 from baseline.  

For this specific role, on behalf of DEM, CUNY BPL seeks to hire an Analyst, Expense Budget to help reduce emissions and energy consumption across the City by supporting the Deputy Director, Budget in management of DEM’s programmatic and operational expense budgets.

The Analyst, Expense Budget position is intended to serve as a new hire position, originally funded under an FY20 Executive Financial Plan New Need. The Analyst, Expense Budget role was created to support the Deputy Director, Budget in management of DEM’s programmatic and operational expense budgets. DEM’s programmatic budget has more than doubled over the two past fiscal years, creating a need for additional support in the Budget Group. Currently, DEM has a programmatic budget of over $95M and an operational budget of $400k. Over the past year and a half, the Director and Deputy Director, Budget have been able to keep operations moving by putting in additional hours in the office, shifting their focus from capital budget planning and out year budgeting and requesting assistance from other team members, as needed. Although this has worked in the interim to maintain the expense budget’s integrity, it has limited their capacity to focus on other important tasks. The Analyst, Expense Budget position is essential to mitigate risk and enable DEM to maintain adequate financial controls. If this position is not filled it will directly impact the ability for the division to effectively manage City Tax Levy funding and achieve DEM’s aggressive emissions reductions goals.