move detroit forward & join our team
Detroit is entering a historic new chapter under Mayor Mary Sheffield, the city’s first woman to serve as Mayor. As she forms her administration, Mayor 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.
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Serves as Detroit’s chief neighborhood‑engagement and service‑coordination executive
Provides high-level administrative and operational support and coordination to one of the City’s most complex and impactful executive portfolios.
Serves as the second-in-command of CRIO and supports the Director in advancing an integrated, citywide civil-rights and equity agenda.
Senior executive leader responsible for overseeing the City’s departmental financial management systems and ensuring strong fiscal stewardship across City agencies.
Serves as Detroit’s senior mobility strategist and innovation leader, charged with transforming how residents access jobs, education, healthcare, and community life.
Serves as a core member of the Mayor’s Communications team and manages all social media content, strategy, and day-to-day digital engagement for the Office of the Mayor.
Serves as a strategic partner and high-level policy lead, helping translate the administration’s priorities into actionable plans across departments.
CITY OPERATIONS & PUBLIC SERVICE
Detroit’s comeback depends on the everyday work of keeping a city running — clean streets, safe parks, reliable services, and infrastructure that works for everyone. These roles are for problem-solvers, builders, and innovators who want to see immediate, visible impact in Detroit’s neighborhoods. If you want to transform how city government shows up for its people — with excellence, dignity, and responsiveness — this is where you belong.
Open City Operations & Public Service Positions
Senior executive leader responsible for overseeing the City’s departmental financial management systems and ensuring strong fiscal stewardship across City agencies.
Serves as a strategic partner and high-level policy lead, helping translate the administration’s priorities into actionable plans across departments.
Serves as a core operational leader responsible for coordinating, protecting, and optimizing the Mayor’s time while ensuring seamless execution of all meetings, events, site visits, and daily movements.
Serves as the City’s senior leader for enterprise process improvement and organizational performance, reporting directly to the Chief of Staff.
Provides high-level administrative, logistical, and strategic support to one of the most important executive roles in city government.
A trusted, high-judgment partner responsible for ensuring the Chief of Staff’s time, workflow, and priorities are managed with precision.
Provides high-level administrative, operational, and strategic support to ensure the COO’s office runs smoothly and effectively.
Serves as Detroit’s chief procurement executive and oversees all purchasing and contracting activities across city departments.
Serves as the Chief of Staff’s principal partner in managing daily operations of the Mayor’s Office
Detroit’s senior financial steward for the Office of the Treasury, responsible for overseeing the City’s cash, investments, tax administration, revenue operations, and debt-management functions.
Serves as Detroit’s chief accounting officer, responsible for safeguarding public assets, maintaining the integrity of financial systems, and ensuring compliance with all financial regulations and audit requirements
Leads the Mayor’s in‑house legal team and serves as principal legal advisor to the Mayor, senior leadership, and City departments.
Provides frontline operational and administrative support to the Office of the Mayor.
Communications, Trust Building & Public Narrative Change
Detroit’s story is powerful — and still unfolding. These roles will help ensure that the voices of residents, the work of the Mayor, and the progress happening across the city are told with honesty, creativity, and pride. If you believe in the power of storytelling to build trust, shift narratives, and inspire action, this is your moment to help the world see Detroit through a new lens.
Open Communications Positions
Serves as a core member of the Mayor’s Communications team and manages all social media content, strategy, and day-to-day digital engagement for the Office of the Mayor.
Develops all major speeches, prepared remarks, talking points, written communications, and message frameworks for the Mayor.
The Mayor’s dedicated creative strategist, responsible for shaping every aspect of her digital storytelling and public-facing image.
eCONOMIC gROWTH, wORKFORCE & bUSINESS iNNOVATION
Detroit is becoming a national center for innovation, from mobility and advanced manufacturing to the small businesses and creative entrepreneurs who fuel our economy. If you want to build a city where prosperity is shared, working people rise, and new industries take root, this is your moment. In these roles, you will shape Detroit’s economic future and help ensure that opportunity reaches every neighborhood and every household.
Open eCONOMIC gROWTH Positions
Serves as the City’s chief strategist for expanding Detroit’s population and diversifying municipal revenues.
Serves as Detroit’s primary relationship manager to the philanthropic sector
Serves as the City’s chief labor negotiator and senior advisor on labor strategy, helping to shape a workplace culture that reflects Detroit’s values of fairness, respect, and shared responsibility.
Serves as Detroit’s chief procurement executive and oversees all purchasing and contracting activities across city departments.
Leads the City’s strategy for immigrant integration, economic mobility, and inclusive neighborhood services.
Serves as a senior executive responsible for integrating Detroit’s major housing, planning, economic-development, and workforce systems into one coordinated, community-centered agenda.
Government Integrity, Transparency & Civil Rights
At a time when faith in government is eroding nationwide, Detroit is choosing a different path — one grounded in ethics, accountability, justice, and the protection of civil rights for all. If you believe in fair systems, transparent governance, and standing up for residents, these roles place you at the heart of that work. Help us build a government worthy of the people it serves.
Open Government Integrity Positions
Serves as the second-in-command of CRIO and supports the Director in advancing an integrated, citywide civil-rights and equity agenda.
Serves as Detroit’s primary connector between returning citizens, reentry partners, community organizations, employers, and City departments.
Serves as the City’s chief labor negotiator and senior advisor on labor strategy, helping to shape a workplace culture that reflects Detroit’s values of fairness, respect, and shared responsibility.
Leads the City’s strategy for immigrant integration, economic mobility, and inclusive neighborhood services.
Serves as Detroit’s chief accounting officer, responsible for safeguarding public assets, maintaining the integrity of financial systems, and ensuring compliance with all financial regulations and audit requirements
Leads the Mayor’s in‑house legal team and serves as principal legal advisor to the Mayor, senior leadership, and City departments.
Health, Human Services & Safety
Help transform the systems that shape people’s lives: healthcare access, social support, mental-health care, and community safety. Detroit is ready for bold, compassionate public servants who understand that equity begins with well-being. Here, you will help rewrite what health and safety can look like in a major American city, prioritizing dignified services, building community trust, and showing that every Detroiter deserves to thrive.
Open Health & Safety Positions
Provides high-level administrative and operational support and coordination to one of the City’s most complex and impactful executive portfolios.
Serves as Detroit’s senior mobility strategist and innovation leader, charged with transforming how residents access jobs, education, healthcare, and community life.
Responsible for supporting older Detroiters living in senior buildings, multifamily housing, and neighborhood communities throughout the city
Serves as Detroit’s primary connector between returning citizens, reentry partners, community organizations, employers, and City departments.
Serves as Detroit’s primary relationship manager to the philanthropic sector
Serves as the citywide senior-services coordinator and advocate
Leads the City’s strategy for immigrant integration, economic mobility, and inclusive neighborhood services.
Housing, Planning & Neighborhood Development
Detroit is entering a once-in-a-generation moment, one in which neighborhoods are not just preserved but renewed, and where longtime residents help shape the future, block by block. Joining this work means becoming a builder of generational wealth, stable housing, and community-led development that honors Detroit’s past and creates a more equitable future. If you believe every neighborhood deserves to rise — and want to help design the Detroit of the future — this is your arena.
Open Housing & Planning Positions
Serves as Detroit’s chief neighborhood‑engagement and service‑coordination executive
Serves as Detroit’s senior mobility strategist and innovation leader, charged with transforming how residents access jobs, education, healthcare, and community life.
Serves as Detroit’s primary relationship manager to the philanthropic sector
Senior executive responsible for ensuring every Detroiter is engaged, heard, and supported through neighborhood-based service, advocacy, and partnership.
Serves as a senior executive responsible for integrating Detroit’s major housing, planning, economic-development, and workforce systems into one coordinated, community-centered agenda.
Youth Opportunity, education & intergenerational SUccess
Detroit’s young people are powerful, brilliant, and ready to lead — and the Sheffield Administration is committed to making sure their voices shape the city’s next chapter. By stepping into youth-focused public service, you become part of a movement to expand opportunity, elevate youth leadership, and build pathways to education, safety, and success. This is impact work that will echo for generations.
Open Youth & Intergenerational Success Positions
Responsible for supporting older Detroiters living in senior buildings, multifamily housing, and neighborhood communities throughout the city
Serves as Detroit’s primary relationship manager to the philanthropic sector
Advises the Mayor on all issues related to K–12 education, early childhood, youth development, and school-community partnerships.
Serves as the citywide senior-services coordinator and advocate
Serves as the Administration’s central organizer and relationship engine for resident-driven input, cross-neighborhood coalitions, advisory councils, and special-population engagement.