About Our Job

With competitive pay, great benefits, and endless opportunities, working for the City and County of Denver means seeing yourself working with purpose — for you, and those who benefit from your passion, skills and expertise. Join our diverse, inclusive, and talented workforce of more than 11,000 team members who are at the heart of what makes Denver, Denver.

What We Offer

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience.  The salary range for this position is $84,604.00 - $139,597.00. Our starting salary range is $84,604.00 - $112,100.00/year, based on experience and education.

We offer generous benefits for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service
• 457B Retirement Plan
• 140 hours of PTO earned within first year + 11 paid holidays, 1 personal holiday and 1 volunteer day per year
• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date

Location

The City and County of Denver supports a hybrid workplace model.  Employees work where needed, at a city site and/or in the community several days a week.  In this position you can expect to work on-site two days per week at Republic Plaza at 370 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202 with occasional evening/weekends, off-site meetings/events.  Employees must work within the state of Colorado on their off-site days.

What You’ll Do

At the Department of Housing Stability, we are committed to support Denver residents as healthy, housed and connected. We invest resources, create policy, and partner with various organizations to help keep residents in the homes that they already live in, quickly resolve an experience of homelessness, and connect residents to new housing opportunities. To support these efforts, the department helps to: 

• Stabilize residents at risk of involuntary displacement and connect residents to housing resources such as home repairs, rent and utility assistance, and legal support. This work is led by our Homelessness Resolution and Housing Stability Division. 
• Support residents experiencing a crisis and connect them to housing, shelter and other services to get stabilized quickly. This work is led by our Homelessness Resolution and Housing Stability Division. 
• Create and preserve existing affordable housing and connect residents at any income level to new housing opportunities through programs such as down-payment assistance or counseling services. This work is led by our Housing Opportunity Division. 
• Support financial services, contracting and procurement, data analysis and strategic planning, administrative resources, and communications across the housing continuum. This work is led by our Operations Division. 

The Community Engagement Officer is part of our Operations Division. 

We are seeking a highly professional, relational, and knowledgeable individual to serve in the role of Community Engagement Officer to lead community engagement efforts. This highly organized, team-oriented and flexible individual will lead the crucial functions of coordinating the department’s high visibility community engagement activities that help inform HOST’s investment, programmatic and policy decisions. The department has two engagement positions that will share the duties of engaging directly with people experiencing homelessness and housing instability, as well as housed residents, businesses, and other community organizations and partners. These roles may also assist with government affairs duties as needed.

Specific duties of the Community Engagement Officers will include: 

• Lead and implement HOST’s community engagement strategy supporting the Housing Opportunity, Housing Stability, and Homelessness Resolution teams, including organizing meetings or other engagement opportunities with stakeholders. Establish standards/protocol for all HOST community meetings; work closely with other staff to ensure the department is most effectively engaging with community, including impacted communities and other stakeholders. 
• Outreach to and engage with residents, businesses, philanthropic and community organizations, and partners to raise awareness about what the city is doing to address housing instability and homelessness, to be transparent and accountable for the funding our department receives, increase awareness of and/or participation in housing stability and affordable housing servic