Police Planner

About the role

The City of Sunrise is more than a workplace — it’s a community built on our Three Pillars: Customer Service, Collaboration, and Transparency. We’re committed to creating an environment where innovation thrives, teamwork is celebrated, and every employee has the opportunity to grow and make a lasting impact. As a full-service municipality and one of South Florida’s premier cities, Sunrise offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, professional development opportunities, and a strong culture of recognition.

Nature of Work

• Assists the agency in strategic implementation through successful project planning and follow through, utilizing modern project management principles to assist with project work planning, activities time and budgetary controls, including project assessment and close out.
• Communicates with senior staff and gathers input from and throughout the agency identifying trends by researching technical papers and professional journals, federal publications and other resources.
• Authors or assists in writing documents that support the organization in its operational performance, compose reports, proposals, documents, informational reports, annual reports, strategic reports, and other departmental reports as requested.
• Evaluates a program’s state mission, goals and objectives against its actual accomplishments to determine its effectiveness and efficiency; components of the evaluation process including original program designs, measurements, the development of empirical performance measures and data collection instruments and procedures, and statistical analysis of the data in order to draw conclusions and prepare an executive summary that is useful for decision support.
• Supports the transfer of information and facilitates understanding by assisting in the preparation and distribution of presentations, spreadsheets, graphic portrayals, website content, PowerPoint presentations, and develops, supports and may perform oral presentations.
• Writes and/or coordinates the writing of proposals and applications for federal, state, private and or other types of grants, including goals, objectives, narratives, applicable programs, budgets and evaluation of criteria, maintains current knowledge of funding sources available to law enforcement agencies and demonstrates the ability to meet application and submission requirements for federal, state, and local grants, assists in grant management, performance measures, financial reporting and auditing.
• Coordinates grant projects ensuring that programs and procedures are consistent with federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations; prepares justifications for grant proposals and modifications; develops grant objectives based on analysis of existing and potential problems or needs and plays a significant role in grant procurement activities with familiarity of purchasing constraints as it pertains to contracts, BID requirements, and RFP’s/RFQ’s.
• Familiarity with agreement execution process such as legal review and approval, agenda items, and routing of agreements/MOU’s etc. for commission review.
• Works with other government agencies as liaison for the city on various matters of interest to the city; meets with departments and vendors.
• Accurately develops and utilizes workload measurements of organizational units of a law enforcement agency to develop allocation and deployment schedules that will result in efficient and optimal staffing patterns for the agency.
• Demonstrates familiarity with the concept of community policing and problem solving, and the identification and effective use of community, government and internal resources unique to the agency; shows competency in problem solving and in applying problem solving models.
• Research and advises the department on methods and programs necessary to meet new and changing agency needs; researches and develops projects as assigned by management and staff and creates long range strategic and tactical planning.
• Oversee Police Fleet including, vehicle quotes/orders, upfitting, coordination of vehicle assignments and reassignments as well as completion of asset/vehicle disposal forms.
• Works with departments on operational needs of vehicles and special equipment.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree
• Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Public Administration or related field.
• Considerable progressively responsible experience involving research methods, preparation, presentation and coordination of a wide range of projects including training, law enforcement, or management related activities.

Benefits

• 5% Supplemental Pay: Supervisory/Professional employees shall receive a five percent (5%) supplemental pay calculated on the employee’s base rate of pay.
• City-Paid Medical Benefits Group Health Insurance: The City pays for 100% of the cost for single coverage for full-time employees and 66.66% of cost for Dependent/Family Coverage. Upon retirement and separation from City employment, employee receives a monthly stipend of $350 per month, applicable toward retiree health coverage.
• Life Insurance: $50,000
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D): $50,000
• Eye Care Reimbursement – Up to $250 every two (2) fiscal years (Employee only)
• EKG/Stress Test – Up to $150 reimbursement per fiscal year (Employee only)
• Physical Examination – Up to $250 reimbursement per fiscal year (Employee only)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through Cigna Behavioral Health