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About the Department

In 2021 and 2023 the City of Detroit experienced a presidentially declared disaster caused by severe storms and flooding. As a result, the City was awarded $95MM (2021) and $347MM (2023) in Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  These funds were granted to assist the City and its residents in recovering from the impact of those storms. The Community Development Officer IV position translates into the CDBG-DR Program Manager. This Program Manager will be responsible for the administration and compliance of both grants in coordination with the CDBG-DR Director and Chief Operations Officer in the Detroit Housing and Revitalization Department. More information can be found here:

https://detroitmi.gov/departments/housing-and-revitalization-department/disaster-recovery.

The Supervisory Program Analyst IV reports directly to the CDBG-DR Director, in the HRD Programmatic Operations and Performance Management Division.

Under general supervision, supervises a subordinate staff of supervisors, professionals, and paraprofessionals who perform housing and community development and grant policy work with accountability to agency management for the quantity and quality of the work done, and for assuring efficient and economical work operations.

The Community Development Officer IV advises on, administers, supervises, or performs professional housing and community development, City of Detroit housing policy, and/or grant related award and evaluation work that requires application of housing and community development and policy theories, concepts, principles, and standards to housing activities of governmental, quasi-governmental, or private sector organizations, as well as Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grants and third party contracts.

Position Duties

• Supervise a subordinate staff of supervisors, professionals, and paraprofessionals who perform housing and community development and grant policy work.
• Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates.
• Set priorities and prepare schedules for completion of work.
• Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and the requirements of the assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluate performance of subordinates.
• Give advice, counsel, or instructions to individual employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Interview candidates for positions in work unit and make recommendations for appointment, promotion, or reassignment involving such positions.
• Hear and resolve complaints from employees and refer group grievances and the more serious complaints not resolved to higher level supervisors.
• Recommend minor disciplinary measures such as warnings and reprimands.
• As needed, consult with specialists on training needs, and decide on training problems related to the units supervised. 
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees in consultation with the Chief Learning Officer and provide or make provision for such development and training.

Minimum Qualifications

Qualifications (required):

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course of work in business administration, public administration, public policy, economics, finance, accounting, urban studies, or a closely related field.
• Must have a minimum of four (4) years of direct experience involving the administration, implementation, systematic review, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of grants, housing and community development, or other financial data. 

Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be substituted to meet the education and experience requirements of this position.

Qualifications (preferred):

• One (1) year experience in a supervisory capacity over program analyst professionals.
• Master’s degree in one of the above fields.

Other Qualifications