Economic Development Coordinator

About the role

The Economic Development Coordinator manages the City’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and integrity to support city-wide economic development programs and initiatives.

This role prepares monthly development pipeline reports, monitors key commercial and targeted industry sector projects, and collaborates across departments to coordinate projects throughout the development continuum.

The position also conducts research, analyzes economic, market, demographic, geographic, and statistical data, and prepares reports to support informed decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Leads CRM management for the department, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and completeness while developing training materials, providing staff training, and supporting system customization to meet evolving team and reporting needs.
• Oversees and synchronizes CRM data to support reporting, dashboards, pipeline tracking, and project monitoring, including routine data cleanup, structure maintenance, and quality control.
• Prepares, reviews, and presents reports on business development activity and performance metrics, including monthly development pipeline reports, performance measure updates, and public announcement tracking, to support decision-making and project advancement.
• Acts as the primary liaison among departments, partner agencies, developers, and community stakeholders, ensuring alignment, continuity, and smooth project progression across all phases.
• Engages internal and external partners to resolve complex issues, identify solutions, and advance initiatives while tracking project milestones and maintaining consistent processes and schedules.
• Buils and maintains relationships with public and private partners to leverage resources, strengthen collaboration, and support successful economic development outcomes.
• Collaborates with business representatives and the West Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce to coordinate business events including ribbon cuttings, groundbreakings, and grand openings, as well as respond to customer assistance requests related to active and prospective projects.
• Conducts research, compiles, and analyzes data; prepares related reports, summaries, and correspondence. Conducts statistical, analytical, and market research on economic and development issues, gathering information from a variety of sources including economic, demographic, population, and geographic databases.
• Provides targeted research and analytical support for business retention, expansion, and recruitment efforts.
• Prepares, designs, and delivers professional, high-quality presentations.
• Assists with the development, evaluation, and implementation of program goals, objectives, activities, and strategic initiatives, including assessment of outcomes and impacts.
• Organizes and coordinates roundtables, workshops, and other events to engage stakeholders, support programs, and advance economic development initiatives.
• Supports a variety of special projects, as assigned, ensuring deadlines and deliverables are met.
• Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy across all work products, data systems, reports, and communications.
• Maintains professionalism and responsiveness through regular participation in internal meetings and ongoing coordination with internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum one years’ experience in a related field.
• Valid Driver’s License.
• Reading: Ability to read general correspondence, technical reports, survey and analyze materials, and memorandums at a college level.
• Math: Ability to perform general math calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and to conduct college-level algebraic and statistical calculations.
• Writing: Ability to write general correspondence, memorandums, letters, and reports at a college level.
• Managerial: Complex – Work requires the occasional direction of helpers, assistants, seasonal employees, interns, or temporary employees.
• Budget Responsibility: Moderate – Supports the preparation of budget documents; may do research to justify data used in documents for a unit or division of a department. May recommend budget allocations. Often compiles data and/or enters or oversees data entry. May have responsibility for monitoring budget expenditures (typically non-discretionary expenditures).
• Policy/Decision Making: Significant – The employee normally performs the job by following established procedures and/or policies. There is a choice of the appropriate procedure or policy to apply to duties. More complex work as well as decisions with more significant impacts are typically reviewed prior to being finalized.
• Technical Skills: Broad Application – Work requires a comprehensive, practical knowledge of a technical field with use of analytical judgment and decision-making abilities appropriate to the work environment of the organization.
• Interpersonal/Human Relations Skills: High – Interactions at this level usually impact the implementation of policies. Contacts may involve interpretation of how policies are implemented and may require discussion and the support of controversial positions or the negotiation of sensitive issues or important presentations. During interactions on policy implementation, contacts may also involve stressful, negative interactions requiring high levels of tact and the ability to respond to aggressive interpersonal interactions.

Qualifications

• Formal Education/Knowledge: Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. Knowledge is normally acquired through four years of college resulting in a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with CRM platforms such as Dynamics 365 and electronic plan review systems like ProjectDox, Accela, or similar tools is required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to build and work with pivot tables for data analysis and reporting, is strongly preferred.

Benefits

At The City Of Goodyear, You Will Be a Part Of An Organization That Values Its Employees As Its Greatest Asset. You Will Become Part Of a Dedicated Team Of Professionals That Are Committed To Build And Maintain a Highly Engaged Workforce. You Will Be Challenged To Learn And Grow In An Environment That Values Employee Development And Career-building. You Will Thrive In a Culture Of Innovation.

Pay

Salary range: $50,000 - $75,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.