Key Focus Areas

Executive Office

Key Areas of Focus:

• Operations – hiring, budget, staff management, professional development, systems development, front desk
• Strategic Initiatives
• Procurement Modernization
• Workforce Hub
• Bloomberg American Sustainable Cities
• Staffing for the Gender Equity Commission, LGBTQIA+ Commission, MBK
• Executive support – scheduling, briefings, proclamations, official signatures, letters of support
• BAC appointments
• Intergovernmental Affairs
• External institutional relationship management

Communications

Key Areas of Focus:

• Strategic communications plans and execution on behalf of mayor's office and city departments
• Press engagement and relationship management
• Media inquiries
• Press releases
• Digital communications
• Social media management
• Digital assets production
• Crisis communications

Neighborhood Services

Key Areas of Focus:

• 311
• Technical Assistance to mayor's office and departments for engagement planning and execution
• Constituent Services
• Love Your Block
• City Cuts
• Snow Angels
• City in the Streets
• Digital Newsletter
• EngagePGH management
• Neighborhood Services Hub

Business Diversity

Key Areas of Focus:

• EORC staffing and management
• MWDBE tracking and compliance
• MWDBE engagement

Immigrant and Refugee Affairs

Key Areas of Focus:

• Language Access
• Cultural Inclusion
• International Day Parade
• Mother Language Day
• Welcoming Communities, including audit and certification
• Technical assistance to departments on immigrant inclusion and accessibility for government services

Workforce Development, Youth, & Education

Key Areas of Focus:

• Learn & Earn – in collaboration with Pittsburgh Partnership and Partner4Work
• Youth Civic Engagement
• Internships
• Youth Commission
• Youth Civic Leadership Academy (YCLA)
• Budget/Public Service Grants
• Partnership with PPS – including CTE
• Pittsburgh Workforce Hub
• Financial Empowerment

Equal Protection

Key Areas of focus:

• Paid Sick Days Act
• Disruptive Properties Appeals – in collaboration with public safety
• Disability Rights
• ADA accommodation requests
• ADA Transition Plan
• Disability Resources Center
• Staff the City County Task Force on Disabilities
• Right To Know
• Ethics Compliance
• Policy Support
• Ban the Box
• Prevailing Wage Enforcement

last updated: 16/05/2025