Senior Director of Public Services

ABOUT THE SHEFFIELD ADMINISTRATION 

Detroit is entering a historic new chapter under Mayor-Elect Mary Sheffield, the city’s first woman to serve as Mayor. Elected with a decisive mandate, Mayor-Elect Sheffield brings a steady, community-rooted approach to governing—one focused on listening to residents, healing long-standing divides, and delivering meaningful improvements in daily life across every neighborhood. She will take office on January 1, 2026, with a commitment to building a city that lifts every family and expands opportunity for all.

As she forms her administration, Mayor-Elect Sheffield is assembling a talented, diverse team of leaders who bring deep expertise, lived experience, and the courage to put forward bold, innovative ideas that move Detroit forward. Her team will drive a City government grounded in collaboration, equity, transparency, and results. The Sheffield Administration seeks mission-driven individuals who are ready to serve, ready to build, and ready to help shape Detroit’s future.

ABOUT THE OFFICE  

Detroit’s Public Services portfolio includes several of the City’s largest operational and frontline service departments, all of which play a critical role in resident quality of life and neighborhood stability. These departments maintain streets and alleys, waste collection systems, forestry and grounds operations, vehicle fleet, municipal facilities, parking infrastructure, and public-works assets. The portfolio also manages demolition and stabilization programs, oversees major construction projects through the Detroit Building Authority, coordinates Special Events, and provides operational leadership for Coleman A. Young International Airport and the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority.

The office’s mission is to deliver high-quality, reliable, and equitable city services every day. From snow removal to demolition, parks to paving, fleet readiness to airport operations, and special-event logistics to waste-to-energy coordination, Public Services is central to creating a Detroit where residents see and feel the impact of government in their neighborhoods. The office partners closely with the Chief Operating Officer, departmental directors, contractors, labor teams, civic partners, and community organizations to ensure services are efficient, transparent, and aligned with Detroiters’ needs.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Director of Public Services is a key member of the administration’s operational leadership team and reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer. This leader provides strategic direction, oversight, and performance management for a wide range of operational departments, including the General Services Department, Department of Public Works, Municipal Parking Department, the Detroit Building Authority, Fleet Management, Coleman A. Young International Airport, the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority, and Special Events. The role also oversees or coordinates operational alignment with demolition and stabilization programs.

The Senior Director serves as the administration’s point leader for service delivery excellence, ensuring that Detroiters receive timely, high-quality, and consistent services across all neighborhoods. This includes overseeing major construction and demolition operations, maintaining critical public-works infrastructure, modernizing fleet and facility systems, ensuring safe airport operations, improving waste-management and recycling coordination, and directing the City’s special-events logistics and permitting. The role requires a solutions-oriented executive with experience in public-works management, large-scale field operations, capital construction, infrastructure maintenance, or emergency response environments.

The Senior Director must bring a disciplined, data-driven approach to operations, a commitment to process improvement, and the ability to lead diverse technical, union, and administrative teams. This role is central to advancing operational excellence, enhancing resident responsiveness, streamlining workflows, reducing duplication, and ensuring Detroit’s public-service systems are modern, efficient, safe, and aligned with the administration’s priorities for stronger neighborhoods.

This role will drive the administration’s public service priorities, including:

• Improving the quality, consistency, and timeliness of frontline services across every neighborhood through stronger performance management, clear standards, and modernized workflows.

• Coordinating demolition, stabilization, and construction activity across the Detroit Building Authority, Land Bank Authority, Public Works, and contractor partners to deliver safe, efficient, and high-impact neighborhood improvements.

• Strengthening preventive-maintenance systems, capital planning, and asset-management practices across streets, alleys, parks, facilities, fleet, and airport infrastructure.

• Overseeing airport compliance, maintenance, and operational planning at Coleman A. Young International Airport to support safe, modern, and community-aligned aviation operations.

• Enhancing waste-management, recycling, and waste-to-energy coordination through improved partnerships with GDRRA and streamlined operational processes.

• Improving parking operations, parking structures, enforcement systems, and customer responsiveness within the Municipal Parking Department to support residents and businesses.

• Leading citywide event operations and logistics to ensure safe, well-organized events that reflect Detroit’s culture and meet operational requirements across multiple departments.

• Responding to severe weather, emergencies, or service disruptions with strong interdepartmental coordination and reliable operational leadership.

• Building more transparent, resident-centered, and responsive systems that ensure residents receive clear communication, predictable timelines, and consistent follow-through when they request city services.

• This description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role and is not intended to be exhaustive; duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified at the discretion of the Mayor.

Core responsibilities include: 

• Providing executive leadership and daily operational oversight for the General Services Department, Department of Public Works, Municipal Parking Department, Detroit Building Authority, Fleet Management, Coleman A. Young International Airport, the Greater Detroit Resource Recovery Authority, and Special Events operations.

• Directing major capital, construction, and demolition projects, including planning, design review, procurement, field execution, safety compliance, and quality control.

• Leading demolition and stabilization operations through coordination with DBA, DLBA, Public Works, and structural-engineering partners, ensuring safe and code-compliant project delivery.

• Managing core city services including street maintenance, refuse collection, snow removal, recycling, alley operations, forestry and grounds maintenance, facility repairs, and fleet operations.

• Modernizing operational systems through improved workflows, digital tools, preventive-maintenance practices, and cross-departmental coordination.

• Overseeing airport operations including maintenance, compliance, safety protocols, airfield readiness, and long-term facility planning.

• Improving parking operations, parking-structure maintenance, customer responsiveness, and enforcement consistency across the Municipal Parking Department.

• Oversees the coordination of large-scale, citywide special-events logistics, ensuring safe, timely, and well-managed event operations in partnership with public safety, mobility, and public-works teams.

• Driving performance-management systems, dashboards, service metrics, and operational reviews to assess service reliability and improve department accountability.

• Leading emergency and severe-weather responses across relevant departments, ensuring coordinated operations, clear communication, and rapid service restoration.

• Managing departmental budgets, capital plans, contracts, staffing strategies, and regulatory compliance for all operational units in the portfolio.

• Building strong, cooperative relationships with labor partners, contractors, neighborhood groups, business leaders, and civic organizations to improve service outcomes.

• Representing the City in community meetings, public service briefings, interagency coordination sessions, and operational planning conversations.

Qualifications: 

• Extensive experience overseeing major municipal service operations, public-works systems, field services, large capital or construction projects, or demolition and stabilization programs.

• Strong understanding of Detroit’s neighborhoods, infrastructure needs, municipal service challenges, and operational landscape.

• Demonstrated success managing large teams, unionized workforces, and multi-department operations in complex, fast-moving environments.

• Experience overseeing construction, demolition, capital improvement, or infrastructure portfolios with strong standards for safety, compliance, timeliness, and community impact.

• Proven ability to modernize operational systems through preventive-maintenance programs, workflow improvements, digital work-order tools, and data-driven performance management.

• Strong financial, administrative, and operational management skills, including budgeting, capital planning, procurement, vendor oversight, and regulatory compliance.

• Experience coordinating emergency response, severe-weather operations, or time-sensitive field deployments.

• Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with labor partners, contractors, community organizations, neighborhood leaders, and interdepartmental teams.

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational-leadership skills, with the ability to translate complex operational issues for residents, stakeholders, and decision-makers.

• Demonstrated commitment to equity, transparency, resident responsiveness, and high-quality public service.

• Experience working in Detroit or a similar large urban environment is strongly preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred; equivalent professional experience considered.

Rate of Pay: $158,000 - $179,000 annually, commensurate with qualifications and experience. 

Benefits:
Our goal is to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce by providing generous healthcare and other benefits to eligible employees. Learn more about benefits for City of Detroit employees.

Equal Opportunity in Employment: 
The Sheffield Administration is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above, we encourage you to apply if you believe you have the skills, experience, and expertise necessary to thrive in this role. The City of Detroit is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates of all backgrounds—including those historically underrepresented in municipal government—to apply.

APPLY HERE

Chief of Mobility Innovation

ABOUT THE SHEFFIELD ADMINISTRATION 

Detroit is entering a historic new chapter under Mayor-Elect Mary Sheffield, the city’s first woman to serve as Mayor. Elected with a decisive mandate, Mayor-Elect Sheffield brings a steady, community-rooted approach to governing—one focused on listening to residents, healing long-standing divides, and delivering meaningful improvements in daily life across every neighborhood. She will take office on January 1, 2026, with a commitment to building a city that lifts every family and expands opportunity for all.

As she forms her administration, Mayor-Elect Sheffield is assembling a talented, diverse team of leaders who bring deep expertise, lived experience, and the courage to put forward bold, innovative ideas that move Detroit forward. Her team will drive a City government grounded in collaboration, equity, transparency, and results. The Sheffield Administration seeks mission-driven individuals who are ready to serve, ready to build, and ready to help shape Detroit’s future.

ABOUT THE OFFICE  

The Office of Mobility Innovation, housed within the Mayor’s Office, exists to reimagine how Detroiters move through their city. Mobility in Detroit is not just about transportation—it is about access to opportunity, safety, health, and economic participation. Under Mayor-Elect Sheffield, the Office advances a people-first approach to mobility that prioritizes equity, affordability, environmental sustainability, and neighborhood connectivity. The Office works across departments and with community partners to pilot new ideas, modernize systems, and ensure transportation solutions reflect the lived experiences of Detroit residents across every neighborhood.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Reporting to the Deputy Chief of Business Innovation and Emerging Industries, the Chief of Mobility Innovation serves as Detroit’s senior mobility strategist and innovation leader, charged with transforming how residents access jobs, education, healthcare, and community life. The Chief leads the development and execution of Detroit’s mobility vision by aligning public transit, emerging mobility technologies, infrastructure planning, and community-driven solutions into one coordinated strategy. This role requires a bold, forward-thinking leader who understands mobility as a civil-rights issue and an economic catalyst, and who can translate innovation into tangible improvements in daily life for Detroiters.

The Chief of Mobility Innovation will operate at the intersection of transportation policy, technology, climate resilience, and neighborhood equity—partnering with city departments, regional agencies, community organizations, labor, and private innovators. This position offers a rare opportunity to shape a national model for inclusive, future-ready urban mobility while delivering real, measurable benefits for Detroit residents.

This role will drive the administration’s priorities, including:

• Advance a people-centered mobility strategy that prioritizes access, affordability, safety, and dignity for Detroit residents

• Reduce transportation barriers that limit access to jobs, education, healthcare, and essential services

• Expand innovative, neighborhood-based mobility solutions that serve Detroiters across varying densities and income levels

• Align mobility investments with climate resilience, environmental justice, and public-health outcomes

• Strengthen coordination between transit, land use, housing, workforce, and economic-development strategies

• Ensure Detroit residents are meaningfully engaged in shaping mobility pilots, programs, and investments

• Position Detroit as a national leader in equitable mobility innovation and deployment

This description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role and is not intended to be exhaustive; duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified at the discretion of the Mayor.

Core responsibilities include: 

• Lead the development and implementation of Detroit’s citywide mobility strategy aligned with Mayor-Elect Sheffield’s priorities

• Direct the planning, piloting, and scaling of innovative mobility programs, including shared mobility, on-demand services, and emerging technologies

• Coordinate mobility planning across city departments, including DDOT, Planning and Development, Parking, Public Works, and Economic Development

• Partner with community organizations to co-design mobility solutions that reflect neighborhood needs and lived experience

• Work with regional transit agencies and state partners to improve service coordination and funding alignment

• Advance data-driven decision-making by collecting, analyzing, and mapping mobility usage and travel patterns

• Identify and secure local, state, federal, and philanthropic funding to support mobility initiatives

• Negotiate and manage partnerships with private-sector innovators, startups, and research institutions

• Modernize procurement and policy frameworks to support innovation while maintaining accountability and equity

• Integrate mobility strategies with workforce access, housing stability, and economic-development initiatives

• Represent the Mayor’s Office in public forums, stakeholder meetings, and national mobility discussions

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, transportation, public policy, business administration, engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred

• Significant leadership experience in mobility innovation, transportation planning, urban systems, or related fields

• Demonstrated success launching or scaling innovative programs in complex public or public-private environments

• Strong understanding of equity-centered mobility, environmental justice, and community-driven planning

• Experience working across government agencies, community organizations, and private partners

• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and complex projects

• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-engagement skills

• Familiarity with Detroit’s neighborhoods, transportation challenges, and regional mobility landscape strongly preferred

• Commitment to progressive public service, resident voice, and measurable impact

Rate of Pay:  $98,600- $129,400 annually, commensurate with qualifications and experience.  

Benefits:
Our goal is to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce by providing generous healthcare and other benefits to eligible employees. Learn more about benefits for City of Detroit employees.

Equal Opportunity in Employment: 
The Sheffield Administration is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above, we encourage you to apply if you believe you have the skills, experience, and expertise necessary to thrive in this role. The City of Detroit is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates of all backgrounds—including those historically underrepresented in municipal government—to apply

APPLY HERE

Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy Mayor

ABOUT THE SHEFFIELD ADMINISTRATION

Detroit is entering a historic new chapter under Mayor-Elect Mary Sheffield, the city’s first woman to serve as Mayor. Elected with a decisive mandate, Mayor-Elect Sheffield brings a steady, community-rooted approach to governing—one focused on listening to residents, healing long-standing divides, and delivering meaningful improvements in daily life across every neighborhood. She will take office on January 1, 2026, with a commitment to building a city that lifts every family and expands opportunity for all.

As she forms her administration, Mayor-Elect Sheffield is assembling a talented, diverse team of leaders who bring deep expertise, lived experience, and the courage to put forward bold, innovative ideas that move Detroit forward. Her team will drive a City government grounded in collaboration, equity, transparency, and results. The Sheffield Administration seeks mission-driven individuals who are ready to serve, ready to build, and ready to help shape Detroit’s future.

ABOUT THE OFFICE  

The Deputy Mayor’s Office plays a central role in driving cross-government coordination, ensuring that major initiatives move forward with clarity, urgency, and alignment with Mayor-Elect Sheffield’s priorities. The office works across departments to advance resident-centered policy, improve service delivery, strengthen internal systems, and ensure that Detroiters see meaningful results in their neighborhoods. The Deputy Mayor supports the Mayor in executing the administration’s agenda, overseeing operational performance, and resolving complex challenges that require collaboration, problem-solving, and strategic guidance across City government.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy Mayor serves as a strategic partner and high-level policy lead, helping translate the administration’s priorities into actionable plans across departments. The Advisor provides rigorous policy analysis, develops recommendations, manages cross-departmental initiatives, tracks deliverables, and ensures alignment across the Deputy Mayor’s operational portfolio and the administration as a whole. This role requires a leader who is analytical, relationship-driven, politically astute, and capable of managing complex, fast-moving workstreams. The Advisor ensures the Deputy Mayor has timely, relevant information and supports decision-making that strengthens government performance and advances results for residents.

This role will drive the administration’s priorities, including:

• Supporting the Senior Director of Population and Revenue Growth’s directives to work cross-collaboratively within the administration and with external partners 

• Prepare presentations and memos  for individuals reporting  directly to the Deputy Mayor, including Director of State Government Affairs, Director of Regional Government Affairs, Director of Federal Government Affairs, Policy and Implementation, and Labor Liaison

• Support the Deputy Mayor in implementing priority initiatives that improve service delivery and operational efficiency

• Ensure alignment of departmental strategies with the Mayor’s equity-driven, resident-centered agenda

• Provide policy analysis and recommendations on issues affecting Detroit residents

• Coordinate cross-departmental workstreams related to housing, economic mobility, safety, and neighborhood stability

• Monitor progress of key operational reforms and elevate barriers requiring senior-level intervention

• Strengthen communication and collaboration between the Deputy Mayor’s Office and frontline departments

• Develop general policy memos, briefing materials, and presentations that advance strategic decision-making

This description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role and is not intended to be exhaustive; duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified at the discretion of the Mayor.

Core responsibilities include: 

• Conduct policy research and analysis to inform the Deputy Mayor’s decisions

• Develop policy recommendations and implementation strategies across major administrative priorities

• Manage high-level projects, ensuring goals, timelines, and deliverables remain on track

• Coordinate cross-departmental initiatives and maintain alignment across operational verticals

• Prepare briefing materials, memos, and meeting documents for the Deputy Mayor

• Identify emerging issues, risks, and opportunities requiring executive attention

• Maintain tracking systems for commitments, deliverables, and priority outcomes

• Engage with departmental leaders to gather updates, resolve barriers, and accelerate progress

• Support strategic planning processes and internal performance-management structures

• Represent the Deputy Mayor’s Office in meetings, collaborations, and cross-agency workgroups

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in public policy, public administration, urban studies, political science, or related field; advanced degree preferred

• At least five years of experience in policy development, government operations, project management, or strategic planning

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex policy issues and translate findings into actionable recommendations

• Experience working with or within government, preferably in an executive office or operations-focused environment

• Strong project-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-moving settings

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including memo writing and briefing preparation

• Ability to build strong relationships with senior leaders, staff, community partners, and stakeholders

• High level of judgment, discretion, and political awareness

• Commitment to equity, transparency, and resident-centered governance

• Familiarity with Detroit’s neighborhoods, challenges, opportunities, and institutional landscape strongly preferred

Rate of Pay:  $95,000- $110,000 annually, commensurate with qualifications and experience.  

Benefits: Our goal is to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce by providing generous healthcare and other benefits to eligible employees. Learn more about benefits for City of Detroit employees.

Equal Opportunity in Employment: The Sheffield Administration is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above, we encourage you to apply if you believe you have the skills, experience, and expertise necessary to thrive in this role. The City of Detroit is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates of all backgrounds—including those historically underrepresented in municipal government—to apply.

APPLY HERE

Senior Director of Population and Revenue Growth

ABOUT THE SHEFFIELD ADMINISTRATION 
Detroit is entering a historic new chapter under Mayor-Elect Mary Sheffield, the city’s first woman to serve as Mayor. Elected with a decisive mandate, Mayor-Elect Sheffield brings a steady, community-rooted approach to governing—one focused on listening to residents, healing long-standing divides, and delivering meaningful improvements in daily life across every neighborhood. She will take office on January 1, 2026, with a commitment to building a city that lifts every family and expands opportunity for all.

As she forms her administration, Mayor-Elect Sheffield is assembling a talented, diverse team of leaders who bring deep expertise, lived experience, and the courage to put forward bold, innovative ideas that move Detroit forward. Her team will drive a City government grounded in collaboration, equity, transparency, and results. The Sheffield Administration seeks mission-driven individuals who are ready to serve, ready to build, and ready to help shape Detroit’s future.

ABOUT THE OFFICE  
The Office of the Mayor leads Detroit’s strategy for neighborhood revitalization, economic mobility, equitable growth, and long-term financial stability. The Senior Director of Population & Revenue Growth supports this mission by identifying and executing strategies to attract new residents, retain longtime Detroiters, strengthen the city’s fiscal base, and expand revenue sources that ensure sustainable and equitable investment across all neighborhoods.

The office works across departments—including housing, planning, economic development, workforce, transportation, and budget—while partnering with state agencies, philanthropy, higher education, business leaders, and community organizations. This role is instrumental in shaping Detroit’s next chapter of inclusive growth, supporting the Mayor’s commitment to building a city where families want to stay, newcomers want to live, and every neighborhood can thrive.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior Director of Population & Revenue Growth serves as the City’s chief strategist for expanding Detroit’s population and diversifying municipal revenues. This role combines economic analysis, policy design, financial innovation, intergovernmental partnership, and narrative strategy. The Senior Director evaluates demographic trends, revenue models, migration patterns, tax structures, and barriers to growth, and then develops actionable strategies to strengthen Detroit’s long-term prosperity.

This role mirrors state-level population-growth positions while tailoring its focus to Detroit’s unique context—its strong cultural identity, historic housing stock, deep community networks, industrial legacy, and emerging economic sectors. The ideal candidate brings expertise in municipal finance, tax policy, economic development, and population strategy, along with a proven record of turning analysis into measurable outcomes.

The Senior Director works closely with the Mayor, Chief Financial Officer, policy teams, state and regional partners, and Detroit’s anchor institutions to align growth and revenue strategies with neighborhood needs, racial equity goals, and Detroit’s ongoing revitalization.

This role will drive the administration’s priorities, including:

• Develop citywide strategies to attract new residents, retain existing families, and reverse population decline.

• Identify, design, and champion policy solutions—especially tax and revenue reforms—that make Detroit more affordable, competitive, and appealing to current and future residents.

• Evaluate innovative revenue tools, incentives, partnerships, and municipal finance approaches that reduce long-term structural deficits and expand stable revenue sources.

• Collaborate with the Housing and Revitalization Department, Planning, and the Land Bank to expand homeownership, streamline infill development, support small landlords, and increase quality housing options.

• Partner with DPSCD, early-childhood providers, and youth-serving institutions to promote family-friendly amenities, strengthen school-community partnerships, and position Detroit as a place where families want to grow.

• Develop strategies to attract immigrants, returning Detroiters, remote workers, and talent from the region’s universities and employers.

• Collaborate with local businesses, anchor institutions, and workforce partners to align job growth with residential growth.

• Lead research and narrative development to reintroduce Detroit to potential residents and investors by highlighting the city’s assets, opportunities, culture, affordability, and momentum.

• Advance equitable policy reforms that strengthen Detroit’s fiscal health while preventing resident displacement and ensuring longtime Detroiters benefit from rising prosperity.

This description outlines the general nature and key responsibilities of the role and is not intended to be exhaustive; duties, responsibilities, and activities may be modified at the discretion of the Mayor.

Core responsibilities include: 

• Analyze demographic trends, migration patterns, taxation structures, and economic indicators to inform population-growth and revenue strategies.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive Population Growth Strategy for the City of Detroit, aligned with state, regional, and mayoral priorities.

• Design policy proposals related to taxation, revenue diversification, incentives, housing, economic development, workforce, and neighborhood amenities.

• Evaluate potential reforms such as earned-income tax improvements, housing incentives, workforce-mobility initiatives, childcare affordability strategies, and creative mixed-use development tools.

• Work closely with the Chief Financial Officer and Budget Office to assess fiscal impacts, revenue projections, and long-term sustainability considerations.

• Partner with state agencies, county officials, philanthropic organizations, and private-sector stakeholders to align Detroit’s growth agenda with regional strategies.

• Collaborate with the new Office of Homeownership & Housing Rights, HRD, and the Detroit Land Bank Authority to link population growth with infill housing, home repair, ownership supports, and family-retention strategies.

• Coordinate cross-departmental initiatives that improve quality of life for existing residents, including transportation, parks, recreation, childcare, mobility, small-business support, and neighborhood safety.

• Lead public-facing narrative initiatives that promote Detroit’s strengths—cultural vibrancy, affordability, historic neighborhoods, entrepreneurial spirit, and community leadership—as magnets for population growth.

• Create dashboards, metrics, and reporting tools to track population trends, revenue performance, retention outcomes, and strategy effectiveness.

• Prepare briefings, reports, and recommendations for the Mayor, Chief Operating Officer, City Council, and external partners.

• Represent the City in statewide, regional, and national conversations on population growth, municipal innovation, and revenue policy.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, municipal finance, urban planning, business, or a related field; master’s degree strongly preferred.

• Extensive experience in municipal finance, tax policy, economic development, or demographic strategy in a government or large public-sector context.

• Demonstrated track record of developing and implementing large-scale policy initiatives that produce measurable outcomes.

• Expertise in analyzing municipal tax structures, revenue diversification tools, and long-term fiscal modeling.

• Experience designing or implementing population-growth strategies, housing strategies, or economic-mobility initiatives in a major city or state.

• Strong analytical, strategic planning, and economic modeling skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear recommendations.

• Deep understanding of Detroit’s policy environment, neighborhoods, revenue structure, housing dynamics, and demographic trends (or experience in a comparable Rust-Belt or legacy city).

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to work closely with senior leaders, elected officials, community stakeholders, academic partners, and business leaders.

• Commitment to equity, resident inclusion, and ensuring that population growth strategies benefit longtime Detroiters.

• Ability to innovate, problem-solve, and think creatively about revenue and growth challenges.

• Experience working across agencies or sectors to implement complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives.

Rate of Pay:  $158,000-$179,000 annually, commensurate with qualifications and experience.  

Benefits: Our goal is to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce by providing generous healthcare and other benefits to eligible employees. Learn more about benefits for City of Detroit employees.

Equal Opportunity in Employment: The Sheffield Administration is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Even if you do not meet all of the requirements listed above, we encourage you to apply if you believe you have the skills, experience, and expertise necessary to thrive in this role. The City of Detroit is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates of all backgrounds—including those historically underrepresented in municipal government—to apply.

APPLY HERE