Executive Director, Neighborhood Safety (Mayor's Office)

The City of Baltimore is hiring the first Executive Director of its new Department of Neighborhood Safety. The department oversees, provides, coordinates and evaluates community-based safety services, including alternative response, violence prevention and other strategies outside law enforcement. The post sits in the Mayor's Office at City Hall and is a non-civil-service position.

What you will do

• Set the department's vision and strategy in support of the Mayor's public safety agenda, and advise the Mayor and City Council on community safety policy
• Lead the division directors, including the Alternative Response Division Director, and hold them accountable for results
• Build and run the department's operating and capital budgets, and approve major contracts and grants
• Find lasting funding, including Medicaid and insurance reimbursement through Maryland's AHEAD model, hospital partnerships and philanthropy
• Build partnerships with city agencies, health systems, housing and homelessness providers, community leaders, funders and state and federal partners
• Serve as the department's main spokesperson with elected officials, community groups, the media and the public
• Set department policy and data governance, including data use agreements and outcome tracking

Requirements

• An advanced degree in public health, public administration, public policy, social work, criminology, emergency management, behavioral health or a related field
• Ten years of progressively responsible management and leadership in public health, behavioral health, emergency response, human services, public policy, criminal justice or related government or community programs, including oversight of multidisciplinary staff and large budgets. The city accepts an equivalent mix of education and experience.
• Government experience is preferred but not required
• A valid Maryland Class C driver's license or the equivalent, with a copy uploaded at the time of application (provisional licenses are not accepted)

The salary range is $157,684 to $260,224 a year, and the hiring range is $157,684 to $208,954. The person hired must live in Baltimore City and be registered to vote there at appointment, or sign a declaration to do both within six months. The job also requires a financial disclosure and a background check, and starts with six months of probation (requisition R0020589).

Applications go through the City of Baltimore careers site.