Participatory Budgeting Outreach Coordinator

City of Detroit; Detroit (MI); Sur place; USD 65 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

City of Detroit’s OCFO Administration Division seeks a Community Engagement Coordinator to support participatory budgeting outreach and resident involvement. This role blends community organizing, public facilitation, data-driven outreach, and cross-department collaboration.

You will design campaigns, lead listening sessions, track participation, and ensure language access and childcare support to enable broad PB participation.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in community engagement, public participation, grassroots organizing, or civic education.
• Strong public speaking, writing, facilitation, and interpersonal communication.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse communities and apply equity-centered practices.
• Project management—ability to manage timelines, coordinate partners, and deliver complex public-facing programs.
• Data literacy—experience with surveys, participation tracking, and basic analytics.
• Digital Engagement Tools—familiarity with online engagement platforms, mapping tools, and virtual facilitation.

Responsabilités

• Community Outreach — Design and execute outreach campaigns reaching diverse neighborhoods, civic groups, youth, seniors, and marginalized communities.
• Stakeholder Partnerships — Build relationships with nonprofits, schools, faith organizations, block clubs, tenant associations, and local businesses.
• Public Facilitation — Lead community meetings, listening sessions, and workshops; ensure inclusive, accessible facilitation.
• Communications Strategy — Create messaging, social media content, press materials, and educational resources explaining PB processes, timelines, and voting.
• Equity & Inclusion — Implement strategies to reduce barriers to participation (language access, childcare, digital inclusion).
• Program Coordination — Work with city departments to align outreach with project development, budgeting cycles, and legal requirements.
• Data & Evaluation — Track participation metrics, demographic reach, engagement quality, and feedback to improve future PB cycles.
• Volunteer Management — Train and coordinate with community partner ambassador organizations.
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned

Connaissances

Community organizing

Public speaking

Writing

Facilitation

Interpersonal communication

Project management

Data literacy

Digital engagement tools

Formation

High School Diploma or GED

Outils

Online engagement platforms

Mapping tools

Virtual facilitation tools

Description du poste

City of Detroit’s OCFO Administration Division seeks a Community Engagement Coordinator to support participatory budgeting outreach and resident involvement. This role blends community organizing, public facilitation, data-driven outreach, and cross-department collaboration.

You will design campaigns, lead listening sessions, track participation, and ensure language access and childcare support to enable broad PB participation.