Jobs at City and County of Denver

Supervise 8–10 professional engineers supporting transportation engineering plan reviews for public right-of-way projects. Manage workloads, performance, hiring, mentoring, and professional development while ensuring compliance with city regulations, engineering standards, and permitting requirements. Develop data-driven performance metrics, improve processes, coordinate with internal and external agencies, address sensitive issues, and support department deadlines, reports, committees, and policy revisions.

Manages youth diversion and intervention programs, including operations, budgets, grants, case management, performance evaluation, and compliance. Supervises and develops staff, coordinates services for at-risk and justice-involved youth, and builds partnerships with families, schools, courts, agencies, and community organizations. Leads strategic planning, process improvement, stakeholder engagement, and advocacy to strengthen youth and family outcomes.

Coordinate day-to-day security operations, audit vendor compliance and invoices, develop and deliver security and de-escalation training, conduct preliminary incident investigations, analyze incident data, perform facility security assessments, assist with policy/SOP development, supervise staff as delegated, and provide on-call duty officer support.

Define and govern enterprise and solution architectures across infrastructure, applications, integrations, and platforms. Develop target-state designs, reference architectures, standards, roadmaps, and right-sizing recommendations. Guide emerging technology evaluation, monitoring and observability strategy, system upgrades, and remediation. Partner with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership to communicate trade-offs, improve service delivery, and ensure scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective technology decisions.

Associate City Planner reviews rezoning and sign-plan applications, interprets zoning codes and planning policies, manages public and internal review processes, drafts reports, presents to boards and councils, analyzes demographic and land-use data, facilitates stakeholder engagement, and supports regulatory and long-range planning initiatives.

Administers Denver’s construction contractor prequalification program by reviewing applications, financial statements, safety records, litigation disclosures, and completed projects. Coordinates supplemental documentation and reviews with city offices and attorneys, enters compliance data, prepares recommendations, and presents findings to the Prequalification Board. Maintains procedures and training materials, trains stakeholders, advises project managers on requirements, supports procurement meetings, and communicates decisions to contractors and city personnel.

Provides customer service and front-desk support at a recreation center, including greeting visitors, answering calls, processing transactions, and explaining memberships and programs. Supports recreation activities, monitors spaces for safety and policy compliance, maintains facility cleanliness, sets up equipment, and assists during emergencies and special events. Works flexible hours and completes required customer service and ActiveNet training.

Provides enterprise-level leadership and oversight of physical security operations for city facilities, employees, visitors, assets, and critical operations. Leads internal and contracted security services, risk assessments, incident management, emergency preparedness, vendor and budget management, policies, performance metrics, continuous improvement, and staff development. Collaborates with city departments, public safety agencies, facility teams, stakeholders, and security vendors while responding to urgent security matters.

Plans, coordinates, and evaluates Arts & Culture recreation programs, classes, activities, and events across multiple locations. Responsibilities include scheduling, curriculum development, budgeting, purchasing supplies, recruiting and mentoring staff or volunteers, partnering with community organizations, conducting outreach, and using participation data to improve programming. The role serves diverse age groups, including youth, adults, and early childhood participants, and requires collaboration with recreation centers and city representatives.

Designs, installs, upgrades, monitors, and refreshes Cisco and Meraki enterprise network infrastructure. Diagnoses complex wired, wireless, voice, firewall, and outage issues; performs routing, switching, packet analysis, and SNMP monitoring. Collaborates with architects and city agencies, coordinates change projects and staff moves, maintains backups and documentation, and prepares handoff packages for network operations. The role is onsite in Denver with regular visits to other city buildings and requires obtaining CJIS clearance.

Leads year-round programming and activation for Denver’s downtown parks, public spaces, and outdoor venues. Oversees program development, event planning, contracts, partnerships, permitting, staffing, budgets, revenue generation, marketing coordination, and performance reporting. Builds relationships with community organizations, cultural groups, vendors, and city agencies while ensuring compliance, accessibility, safety, and financial goals. Supports strategic initiatives connected to Downtown Denver plans and the reopening of the Greek Theater.

Leads safety and security operations across 28 library locations, including policy development, emergency preparedness, continuity planning, incident investigations, audits, drills, reporting systems, security KPIs, and crisis de-escalation. Advises leadership, manages the Security Department, coordinates with city agencies, optimizes security staffing, facilitates safety committees, and supports disaster recovery planning.

Provides legal counsel and litigation representation for the City and County of Denver in employment and labor matters. Handles federal and state litigation, administrative proceedings, workplace advice, accommodations, wage and hour issues, policies, training, legal research, pleadings, settlements, and formal opinions. Advises on union organizing, collective bargaining, grievances, arbitrations, and unfair labor practices. Serves as lead counsel on complex cases and mentors junior attorneys.

Perform cultivation, restoration, and maintenance of park landscapes and gardens; prepare soils and planting plans; manage weeds and plant health; supervise and guide crew members; safely operate equipment and apply chemicals (pesticides per state certification); prepare reports and records; assist with general park maintenance and restoration projects.

The job is for former Denver firefighters seeking rehire, focusing on eligibility criteria, application process, and reemployment terms, including salary.