Constituent Services & Community Programs
GIM Administrative Horticulturist
$68,214 to $109,058 a year
Posted until November 16, 2026 · posted September 17, 2026
Requirements
Diploma + experience
Exam
Competitive title
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Mostly for people already in city service. The posting says:
“**Important: Candidates must be Permanent Administrative Horticulturist or provide proof of filing for DCAS Exam #6005 to be considered.”
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From ≈ $32.80 an hour · $2,624 every 2 weeks, before taxes (40-hour weeks).
NYC minimum wage is $17/hr. This beats it by $15.80/hr, with health insurance and a pension on top.
What you'd have made
$2,615 If you'd started this job 2 weeks ago, at this pay, before taxes.
An hour of this job pays for about 10.9 subway rides ($3 fare).
Price anything in hours of this job
Overtime added $2,781 on average that year, and it isn't guaranteed. Base salary of active employees paid a yearly rate, fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025). Source: NYC's payroll data
Check yourself
What they actually ask for.
High school diploma plus experience
- A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college with major study in horticulture, arboriculture, or landscape architecture and four years of full-time, paid experience in horticultural work of which two (2) years must have been in a supervisory, administrative, consultative, managerial, or executive capacity; or
- A satisfactory equivalent. However, all candidates must have at least a high school diploma or evidence of having passed an examination for a high school equivalency diploma and one year of supervisory, administrative, consultative, managerial, or executive experience as described above.
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The work
What the job is.
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**Important: Candidates must be Permanent Administrative Horticulturist or provide proof of filing for DCAS Exam #6005 to be considered.
Read the rest, from the posting
The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) enriches the environment and protects public health for all New Yorkers by providing 1.1 billion gallons of high-quality drinking water, managing wastewater and stormwater, and reducing air, noise, and hazardous materials pollution.
DEP is the largest combined municipal water and wastewater utility in the country, with nearly 6,000 employees. DEP's water supply system is comprised of 19 reservoirs and 3 controlled lakes throughout the system’s 2,000 square mile watershed that extends 125 miles north and west of the city.
DEP’s Green infrastructure program designs, constructs and maintains a range of Green Infrastructure assets that collect stormwater from streets, sidewalks, and other hard surfaces before it can enter the sewer system or cause local flooding.
By reducing the amount of stormwater that flows into the Sewer System, green infrastructure helps prevent Combined Sewer Overflows and improves the health of local waterways.
The Bureau of Environmental Planning and Analysis at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is seeking an Administrative Horticulturalist for the NYC Green Infrastructure Maintenance Program. This is a management class position, with several assignment levels.
Administrative Horticulturalist plan, coordinate, and oversee the development and progress of various horticultural activities throughout the city.
Under general supervision, the selected candidate will have the following primary responsibilities:
- Under administrative direction, with extremely wide latitude for the exercise of independent judgement, initiative, and action, performs extremely difficult, responsible, and complex work in
planning, coordinating, and overseeing the development and progress of various horticultural green infrastructure activities throughout the city.
- The administrative horticulturalist will also develop and negotiate contracts including making determinations of costs, of time estimates, and of sources of funding associated with maintenance
related to green infrastructure horticultural projects.
- Directs a staff of project management professionals engaged in managing the timely and cost-effective implementation of major projects for the green infrastructure program.
- Directs the oversight of green Infrastructure maintenance projects from initiation to completion.
- Directs technical project management operations including project planning, budget, and scope development, vendor procurement, design and construction management, and project close-
outs.
- In the temporary absence of supervisor, may assume the duties of that position.
Skills they'd like
- At least five years of full-time satisfactory experience in the planning, administering or expediting of engineering design, and/or construction, or coordinating a very large engineering project,
• At least two years working in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity. •
All the skills they list
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc. •
Valid NYS Driver's License.
Before you apply
The fine print.
Where you have to live
Live in NYC within 90 days (usually)
New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.
How to apply, from the posting
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