Police Researcher Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Salary : $86,269.37 - $121,894.90 Annually
Location : 10440 W Oakland Park Blvd. Sunrise, FL, FL
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2026-176
Department: POLICE
Division: ADMINISTRATION
Opening Date: 06/30/2026
Closing Date: 7/30/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
Bargaining Unit: SUPR
Description
ABOUT OUR CITY
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. Whether you're helping residents, shaping policy, or improving city operations, you'll be part of a team that's passionate about service excellence and community pride.
We take pride in being home to the back-to-back NHL Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers, a vibrant arts and entertainment district, and a diverse community that truly embodies what it means to Live, Work, and Play in Sunrise.
Effective January 2026, the City is has launched an Alternative Work Schedule designed to further support employee work-life balance - providing eligible staff with two three-day weekends per month through an every-other-Friday-off model. This initiative reflects our continued focus on flexibility and employee well-being.
NATURE OF WORK
This is responsible professional level work involving the development, coordination, administration, and evaluation of diversified projects, as assigned, for the City of Sunrise Police Department.
An employee in this class performs various administrative duties assisting department management in carrying out operations, managing assigned projects and programs, and performs duties which may include cost analysis and control, purchasing and inventory, methods and procedural studies, grant and report preparation, and conducting research and works supporting the operational functions for the assigned City department. Responsibilities include researching, planning, implementing and identifying emerging trends that may affect policing and include consulting with supervisors and command staff to determine their needs and priorities, evaluating on-going programs, planning and development of new projects or the revision of existing programs and maintaining contact with various police resources and programs. Emphasis of the work is on the planning, coordination and supervision of assigned projects as well as the introduction of innovative practices and technology within the Police Department. Duties include compiling statistical data and information, coordination intradepartmental programs, analyzing or devising performance methods, researching funding opportunities, and formulating recommendations to superiors. Incumbent is responsible for consulting with supervisors to determine their needs and priorities, evaluating on-going projects and programs, recommending additional activities to supervisors and management. Supervision is received from a professional superior who periodically reviews project activities through written reports, conferences and personal inspection for timely progress and quality of results in meeting management goals and objectives.
Examples of Duties
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• 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.
• Participates in, or conducts an analysis of a law enforcement agency, department, division or major program, review fiscal, economic, political, demographic and other social issues affecting the programs and assists in the articulation of a proposed long-range course of action/improvement.
• 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.
• Performs other related duties as requested or required.

Requirements
EDUCATION

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree
• Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, Public Administration or related field.

EXPERIENCE

• 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.

Supplemental Information
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Considerable knowledge of research techniques and sources and availability of data related to current law enforcement trends and various information.
• Considerable knowledge of internet resources and sources of available information useful in gathering data and statistical information for research purposes for various projects and reporting as requested or required.
• Considerable knowledge of the principles of survey question construction, sampling statistics and design and the interpretation of survey results.
• Considerable knowledge of the concepts of community policing and problem solving.
• Considerable knowledge of computer systems, in a windows environment and knowledge of MS office software.
• Knowledge of sound planning techniques.
• Knowledge of modern office procedures, systems and equipment.
• Ability to analyze a variety of problems, present sound recommendations for their solutions and prepare workable procedures.
• Ability to evaluate statistical data and present facts and conclusions clearly in written and verbal form.
• Ability to understand and comply with complex verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to approach problems objectively and arrive at logical conclusions.
• Ability to prepare complete and comprehensive narratives and statistical reports.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with officers, supervisors, officials, recruits and the public as necessary.

BENEFITS PACKAGE SUMMARY
SUPERVISORY/PROFESSIONAL
HIRED ON OR AFTER 10/1/18
The description of benefits for which, an employee may be eligible have been generally summarized in this information sheet for your convenience; however, you must refer to all applicable City ordinances, collective bargaining agreements and/or plan documents for specific terms and conditions. These benefits may be affected by future changes in policy, collective bargaining, City ordinances and/or legislative actions. The City reserves the right to increase, modify, decrease or eliminate benefits at any time. No benefit is created or maintained simply based on this document, and its contents do not give rise to any contractual rights related to continuing employment or receipt of benefits between the City of Sunrise and its employees. The information contained herein supersedes any prior benefit sheet(s).
The City of Sunrise is an economic powerhouse in western Broward County encompassing more than 18 square miles. As the host of Sawgrass International Corporate Park - the largest business park in South Florida - Sunrise has its own flourishing job market and currently employs approximately 1,100 employees and numbers continue to rise.
The City takes a very active role in business development, recruitment and prides itself on creating job opportunities for its residents. There are very few communities of similar size that welcome the tens of millions of visitors that we do here in Sunrise, or that can boast the magnitude of regional assets found in our City.
Our City shines and we understand in order to shine brighter; we must continue to recognize our employees as one of our most valuable assets. The City of Sunrise takes great pride in recruiting future employees and developing and retaining current ones by offering our comprehensive compensation and benefits package throughout an employee's career.
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

Retirement:

• Employee Contribution = 8%
• Vesting = 10 Years
• Average Final Compensation (AFC) = 2.5% of pensionable earnings for each year of creditable service
• Maximum Benefit = 80% of AFC, not to exceed $80,000.
• Normal Retirement = Age 62 and ten (10) years of creditable service.
• Early Retirement = Age 57 and ten (10) years of creditable service, 3% annual reduction for each year prior to normal retirement age.
• 13th check based on monthly retirement, payable if the pension plan funding status is equal to or greater than 100%. Paid in December each year following retirement.
• Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) = 4 years/48 months maximum.
• DROP Interest Rate = 4%, compounded annually.

Longevity:
Based on successful completion of full-time, continuous service with the City, employee shall receive the following:
Years of Creditable Service Longevity Benefit*
10 Years 2.5%
15 Years 2.5%
20 Years 5.0%
* Longevity Benefit calculated on employee's base rate of pay
Paid Holidays:
Employees receive the following City-paid holidays:
• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King Day
• Memorial Day
• Juneteenth
• 4th of July, Independence Day
• Labor Day
• Veterans' Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Frida