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Job Description
Job Summary
The purpose of this position is to manage, grow, and be a high impact economic development project manager -as well as to coordinate with other Department staff on the attraction, retention, expansion, and redevelopment of existing corporate headquarters, advanced technology enterprises, and research and development facilities.
A critical component to this role will have a shared responsibility in Grand Prairie’s industrial, manufacturing, and supply chain vertical.
This is accomplished by performing certain site visits with businesses, prospects, brokers, and developers, outreach to companies via phone, email, text and other in-person events; addressing prospect concerns relating to City services and other outside business services including workforce development and talent pipeline growth; helping manage and nurture Grand Prairie’s network of industrial brokers, industrial property owners, industrial developers and consultants that work in the advanced manufacturing vertical.
Other duties include responding to requests for information; assisting the Director with structuring business attraction/expansion/redevelopment incentives, including creative TIF financing, Chapter 380 incentive agreement structuring; exploring ways to foster major employer renovation and expansion and interfacing with other City departments and citizens.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the City of Grand Prairie’s economic landscape, interact with influential leaders, and make a lasting impact on the community’s prosperity. If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for economic development and relationship building, this is the position for you.
Prior strong experience in real estate, finance, or economic development is required.
Essential Job Functions- Performs selected retention visits and meetings (some outside the City) by contacting company contacts to retain one-on-one interface with the City; scheduling meetings; driving to businesses; identifying expansion, relocation and redevelopment prospects; serving as a liaison between businesses and the City departments.
- Facilitating programs by attending meetings; fostering any introductions and deals; implementing bi-monthly networking breakfast; helping implement tours for brokers; and producing annual meetings for a Grand Prairie Economic Development Foundation.
- Maintains an extensive confidential business retention database by documenting calls, visits, and correspondences with companies; documenting lease renewals to assist businesses with expansion or relocation possibilities; and locating suitable alternative facilities in Grand Prairie.
- Writing correspondence(s); communicating by phone; and handling phone complaints from businesses and citizens with prompt follow up.
- Identifies concerns and issues by working with corresponding City departments and outside services to amicably resolve problems.
- May involve meeting with other City Departments to consider design review, interior design considerations and layouts (particularly to foster expansion and renovation), including but not limited to work with departmental personnel, vendors, contractors, architects, or others to consider design options, materials, furniture, and decorations to aesthetically align design with buildings across the city (especially as it relates to the far north SH 360, the IH-30/Belt Line Road corridor, President George Bush Turnpike corridor and far south SH 360) as well as redevelopment of existing projects and developments.
- All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
- Regular and dependable attendance is required.
Minimum Qualifications- Education: Bachelor's degree required; Master’s preferred. Preference is a degree and/or coursework in geography, political science, commercial and/or real estate related programs.
- Experience: Over three years up to including five years experience in real estate, finance, or economic development is required . History or experience working with CRM software helpful.
- Licenses: Valid Driver's License required
The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits
Closing Date/Time: 8/29/2025 5:00 PM Central -
Special Instructions
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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City of Grand Prairie
Show moreWelcome to the City of Grand Prairie! We Live Life Grand here – about 200,640 residents call Grand Prairie home, and we’re still growing. Grand Prairie is the 16th largest city in Texas and the 125th largest city in the United States, but we still have small town values. We are rated the #1 Best Place to Retire in the U.S., 2nd Happiest City in Texas, 5th Best City for First-Time Home Buyers in Texas, 7th Safest Large City in Texas, and in the Top 50 U.S. Best Place to
Raise a Family!We have attractions that draw almost 10 million visitors a year to:
- Epic Waters Indoor Water Park showcasing 80,000 square feet of year-round water fun referred to as a “cruise ship on land”
- The Summit Active Adult Center with state-of-the-art fitness training, indoor infinity edge pool with lap lanes and exercise vortex, theater, game room, sauna
- PlayGrand Adventures (10-acre, all-accessible playground) is an exciting opportunity to provide a safe and fun playground experience for all ages and abilities (open late 2019)
- Firehouse Gastro Park restaurant downtown (conversion of historic Firehouse #1)
- Lone Star Park Thoroughbred Horse Race Track
- The Theatre at Grand Prairie concert venue
- Historic Uptown Theater in downtown
- IKEA, Living Spaces and the Premium Outlet Mall
- Traders Village
- Lake Joe Pool
- Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! And Palace of Wax
- Epic Central Park, a 172-acre park with five lakes, a Grand Lawn amphitheater, trails and a water and light show
- Chicken N’ Pickle
- Bolder Adventure Park
- The Epic Arts, Fitness and Entertainment Center with $1 million in cardio and strength training equipment, indoor walking/jogging track, group fitness and more
Grand Prairie recently welcomed more than 50 new restaurants and retail stores along SH 161, and development continues at a brisk pace. The city offers a vibrant lifestyle, with the best parks in the nation, more amenities than most, affordable to affluent housing and friendly neighbors.
City employees work hard to ensure Grand Prairie is known as an organization that creates Raving Fans by delivering world-class service. Our employee family and elected officials constantly live our values, aggressively move toward our vision and are always looking for ways to make the business of running a city even better.The hard work, positive input and optimism of all our city employees all play a key role in our success. We look forward to you joining our
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