Mayor’s Office of Risk Management and Compliance
Position
Deputy Director, Risk Management
Job Number: 43154
The 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
This position is based in the Mayor’s Office of Risk Management and Compliance (MORMC), which was
created by Mayor Eric Adams to assist City agencies in assessing their operational, financial and
compliance risks, addressing waste and mismanagement, and improving the effectiveness of City
operations. MORMC works on Citywide projects and directly with individual City agencies to help them
create and enhance risk management and compliance programs and develop tools that will enable
them to flag programmatic and operational risks.
The Problems You’ll Solve
Under the overall direction of the MORMC Director, review selected City programs, operations, policies
and procedures, contracts, and transactions to identify compliance issues and assess financial,
operational, and reputational risk, including potential instances of waste and abuse of City funds and
resources. Recommend appropriate remedial and preventive actions.
- Develop and recommend plans for MORMC projects to address targeted risks and compliance
issues.
- Manage projects assigned by the MORMC Director; assign tasks and work with MORMC team to
compile the relevant facts, using the best available financial and operational data, literature,
and structured meetings and interviews with knowledgeable individuals.