City of Lauderhill
Responsibilities
Develops and implements a comprehensive community engagement plan that advances the Mayor’s strategic priorities.
Leads outreach efforts to residents, community groups, HOAs, schools, nonprofit organizations, faith-based partners, and business stakeholders.
Identifies emerging community needs, concerns, and opportunities; provides recommendations to the Mayor and prepares policy-aligned briefings.
Builds long-term partnerships to support civic participation, cultural programming, youth engagement, senior outreach, and equity-focused initiatives.
Plans, manages, and executes major community events, special programs, forums, town hall meetings, ceremonial activities, Mayor-sponsored initiatives.
Oversees event logistics including venue procurement, permitting, vendor coordination, program design, run-of-show, marketing materials, and post-event reporting.
Ensures cross-departmental coordination (Administration, Parks & Recreation, Police, Fire-Rescue, Public Works, Communications, Finance, MIS, etc).
Provides on-site leadership during events and represents the Mayor as assigned.
Serves as the Mayor’s primary point of contact for community inquiries, concerns, and service requests.
Coordinates internally with City departments to ensure timely, accurate, and customer-focused responses.
Tracks complaints, trends, and recurring issues to support data-driven recommendations and policy adjustments.
Collaborates with the Communications Divisions to align messaging, marketing materials, and outreach campaigns with the Mayor’s priorities.
Prepares talking points, briefing packets, community updates, and presentation materials.
Assists with newsletters, social media content coordination, and public information dissemination.
Manages assigned strategic projects on behalf of the Mayor, including multi-departmental initiatives and community-impact programs.
Supports intergovernmental engagement with county, state, school district, and regional agencies as appropriate.
Conducts research, drafts policy memos, and contributes to grant-related community engagement strategies when required.
Maintains comprehensive records of community engagements, events, stakeholder contacts, and performance metrics.
Prepares detailed reports, presentations, and recommendations for the Mayor.
Monitors community engagement budget allocations and tracks related expenditures.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Public Administration, Communications, Public Affairs, Political Science, or closely related field;
AND
Three (3) years of professional experience in community engagement, government relations, public affairs, event management, or closely related discipline;
AND
Valid State of Florida driver’s license.
If no applicants meet the minimum qualifications, an equivalent combination of education, training, experience, and preferred qualifications may be considered.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in municipal government, legislative offices, or high-visibility public roles.
Schedule Requirements: The ability to work a flexible schedule including nights and weekends for City events, as an exempt employee.
Driving Requirements: The ability to drive and operate a personal or City vehicle for extended periods of time, including utilization as field office; and to enter and exit the vehicle various times throughout the day.
Physical Requirements: The ability to exert moderate, though not constant, physical effort, which may involve some combination of climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and/or lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
Motor Coordination: The ability to coordinate eyes, hands, and feet to utilize and operate office tools, equipment, and machinery; and to handle, sort, and organize documentation.
Sensory Requirements: The ability to perceive and differentiate audio and/or visual cues or signals; and to perceive and differentiate depths, and/or textures.
Color Discrimination: The ability to differentiate between colors or shades of color.
Communication: The ability to effectively communicate with City employees, stakeholders, and the general public verbally and in writing to deliver and explain information in a variety of technical and/or professional languages, and to prepare written correspondence, documents, reports, and analyses using proper format, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Functional Reasoning: The ability to apply principles of rational systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
Situational Reasoning: The ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness, and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, measurable, verifiable, or subjective criteria.
Data Conception: The ability to coordinate, manage, strategize, and or correlate data and/or information; and to exercise discretion in determining actual or probable consequences, and in identifying solutions or alternatives.
Mathematical Aptitude: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and calculate numbers, decimals, and percentages.
Environmental Factors: Essential functions are performed with varied exposure to adverse environmental conditions (i.e. cold, heat, rain, sunlight, humidity, noise, dirt, odor, fumes, disease, pathogens, and/or traffic hazards).
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Leads outreach efforts to residents, community groups, HOAs, schools, nonprofit organizations, faith-based partners, and business stakeholders.
Identifies emerging community needs, concerns, and opportunities; provides recommendations to the Mayor and prepares policy-aligned briefings.
Builds long-term partnerships to support civic participation, cultural programming, youth engagement, senior outreach, and equity-focused initiatives.
Plans, manages, and executes major community events, special programs, forums, town hall meetings, ceremonial activities, Mayor-sponsored initiatives.
Oversees event logistics including venue procurement, permitting, vendor coordination, program design, run-of-show, marketing materials, and post-event reporting.
Ensures cross-departmental coordination (Administration, Parks & Recreation, Police, Fire-Rescue, Public Works, Communications, Finance, MIS, etc).
Provides on-site leadership during events and represents the Mayor as assigned.
Serves as the Mayor’s primary point of contact for community inquiries, concerns, and service requests.
Coordinates internally with City departments to ensure timely, accurate, and customer-focused responses.
Tracks complaints, trends, and recurring issues to support data-driven recommendations and policy adjustments.
Collaborates with the Communications Divisions to align messaging, marketing materials, and outreach campaigns with the Mayor’s priorities.
Prepares talking points, briefing packets, community updates, and presentation materials.
Assists with newsletters, social media content coordination, and public information dissemination.
Manages assigned strategic projects on behalf of the Mayor, including multi-departmental initiatives and community-impact programs.
Supports intergovernmental engagement with county, state, school district, and regional agencies as appropriate.
Conducts research, drafts policy memos, and contributes to grant-related community engagement strategies when required.
Maintains comprehensive records of community engagements, events, stakeholder contacts, and performance metrics.
Prepares detailed reports, presentations, and recommendations for the Mayor.
Monitors community engagement budget allocations and tracks related expenditures.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Public Administration, Communications, Public Affairs, Political Science, or closely related field;
AND
Three (3) years of professional experience in community engagement, government relations, public affairs, event management, or closely related discipline;
AND
Valid State of Florida driver’s license.
If no applicants meet the minimum qualifications, an equivalent combination of education, training, experience, and preferred qualifications may be considered.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in municipal government, legislative offices, or high-visibility public roles.
Schedule Requirements: The ability to work a flexible schedule including nights and weekends for City events, as an exempt employee.
Driving Requirements: The ability to drive and operate a personal or City vehicle for extended periods of time, including utilization as field office; and to enter and exit the vehicle various times throughout the day.
Physical Requirements: The ability to exert moderate, though not constant, physical effort, which may involve some combination of climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and/or lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
Motor Coordination: The ability to coordinate eyes, hands, and feet to utilize and operate office tools, equipment, and machinery; and to handle, sort, and organize documentation.
Sensory Requirements: The ability to perceive and differentiate audio and/or visual cues or signals; and to perceive and differentiate depths, and/or textures.
Color Discrimination: The ability to differentiate between colors or shades of color.
Communication: The ability to effectively communicate with City employees, stakeholders, and the general public verbally and in writing to deliver and explain information in a variety of technical and/or professional languages, and to prepare written correspondence, documents, reports, and analyses using proper format, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Functional Reasoning: The ability to apply principles of rational systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
Situational Reasoning: The ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness, and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, measurable, verifiable, or subjective criteria.
Data Conception: The ability to coordinate, manage, strategize, and or correlate data and/or information; and to exercise discretion in determining actual or probable consequences, and in identifying solutions or alternatives.
Mathematical Aptitude: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and calculate numbers, decimals, and percentages.
Environmental Factors: Essential functions are performed with varied exposure to adverse environmental conditions (i.e. cold, heat, rain, sunlight, humidity, noise, dirt, odor, fumes, disease, pathogens, and/or traffic hazards).
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