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There are a few ranger positions - Urban and Mountain, Urban has Night Ops and Daytime Park Rangers, Mountain has Daytime Park Rangers and Red Rocks Rangers.

As a Red Rocks Ranger you will typically work nights, you are there for every concert. You typically are removing wild life from the venue, ensuring patron safety and satisfaction. You roam the park in a truck provided by the company to look for rules and regulation infractions. Overall a chill job dealing with concert goers that may be under the influence of a wide array of substances. 

You learn to deal with people and not so much the natural resources protection or management. If you're a people person who enjoys helping people then  this a great job for you with purpose.

Management here is hit or miss, just by one wrong uniform thing is enough to get you on the uniform committees bad side. Your supervisor could be your age or younger which might rub you or them wrong because of your experiences. Overall they act like they care for you but in reality they're just looking at you to cover hours that no one else in Urban wanted. They will use your work in their name (Education Tables), they won't tell you about how you've been doing and will just cut you loose the minute you walk in. 

The work place culture is alright, but if you don't fit in you will be the blacksheep of the work place. You must change your interests to match theirs if you want to fit in and have friends.

Overall not the worst place I have worked there but definitely not the friendliest. Would I recommend you to work here if you're trying to work anything? Yes, I do think its a decent place to work especially since they pay pretty decently for what you do. 

Denver Department of Finance is a very progressive employer that offers flexible work schedules, as well as above average benefits and working conditions.  In my job I spent a significant amount of time in the offices of other companies and I have to say that I always felt very lucky to work for Denver when comparing office comfort.  The office areas are very modern and well kept, the management has always been very good about providing good quality office furniture, the security in the building includes staff and metal detectors.  While the pay at the City of Denver is only in the mid-range of the pay scale for professionals such as myself, the benefits are good, the working conditions are great, and they are located at the Webb Building in upper downtown Denver and has very nice views from the 10th floor of the mountain range, the Civic Center Park, and is one block from the pedestrian mall with all the amenities of a big downtown locale.

The current management team in my Department is highly skilled and professional and very responsive to input, and they care very much about employee development and happiness.

Working for a Govt Agency as a professional Tax Auditor can be very stressful as you are in a negative relationship with everyone you contact, and you are also answerable to the City to meet fairly rigorous efficiency and quantitative expectations.  The upside is that you meet many professionals outside your employer's office and make many important contacts during your work.  

My 25.5 years to date at this employer have been very rewarding to me both developmentally as a professional and in the quality of life afforded me in this wonderful City.

This review is about DDPHE, specifically Public Health Inspections, rather than the City and County of Denver as a whole. PHI is a colossal disaster. Poor management, favoritism, nepotism - you name it and it happens in PHI. The turnover rate is astronomical both in residential and food safety. Employees are micromanaged over everything, including tracking how every day is spent down to the minute. The culture is toxic and negative. The workload is ridiculous even for the hardest worker. Little to no advancement opportunities available, especially if you aren’t one of management’s selected favorites. To be frank, I’ve been working for a long time. I’ve had some not so great jobs that I take in stride, but I’ve never seen anything close to what goes on in PHI. It’s genuinely abysmal. Management pretends to act so bewildered when people constantly quit, as if they can’t even wrap their heads around why people leave. They ask employees to express their concerns, yet time after time nothing changes. Then they turn around and target the employees who were brave enough to even speak up. It’s clear that they don’t really care and have no desire to take the real actions required to make PHI a worthwhile place to build a career. It’s a shame because they do important work that is of great value to the public. The City itself might be a great place to work, but I’d caution against joining PHI unless it’s to get some experience and then get out quick. Leaving this job was the best thing I ever did for myself.

The City of Denver -specifically the Denver Police Department- exemplifies the definition of favoritism. It's not what you know in this organization, it's who you know, or who you are sleeping with, that will get you ahead (or hinder you) in your career. The Police Department and Dispatch somehow end up with the worst people obtaining leadership positions, with the best being tamped down for fear they will make the incompetent appear even more incompetent.

Harassment and discrimination against race, sexual orientation and gender is still rampant here, and unless you have video proof, your claims will likely go nowhere. They will do anything to bury information that could get into the news as Bad Press, and when the news does get wind of something, there will ultimately be a sacrificial employee that the city throws in front of the bus in order to save themselves from the embarrassment of the truth being exposed. As an employee, you are expendable, no matter how important you are.

The city's pay system is fair on paper, but even their time-clock punch-ins are easily manipulated and using the "rule of 15" they can deny you overtime pay that has been earned. The payout for extra time worked by shift workers is not given at the legal rate when paid out at the end of the fiscal year. This place is a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen, and you can bet we will all sign on as participants when it does.

City & County of Denver is a good place to work for the reason that opportunity to advance is very good, depending on the department. Some departments have less turnover because they are small department and employees are not eligible for retirement yet. I have been with the City for almost eight years, and I have promoted three times during this time.  But in these promotions  I have had to move to other city agencies  which has been  a good experience and has helped me to learn about city operations. In all of my experiences, in supervisory and non-supervisory capacities, I enjoy working with the various department and dedicated employees. Of course there are a few employees that have the "government worker" attitude but most employees I have encountered are dedicated, smart, and are good in their field. 
The hardest part about working  for CCD is it is  a large Council-Mayor government structure and therefore operations and funding approval is a bit slower than Council-City Manager structure. If you are not familiar with this municipal government structure, it can be frustrating, initially. 

On the other hand , a very neat thing about CCD is the current Mayor (Hancock) wants to know what employees are thinking.  Therefore he provides an opportunity to schedule a meeting with him, and he actually do listen and heed employee suggestions.
Overall, it is a good place to work.

Definite class distinction in some units  because of wealthy directors coming from snazzy Law Firms that just don’t get it,  and never will.  This is a government gig, get it through your head,  rich entitled people do not belong in government jobs,  all they do is destroyed units.
 Not diverse, very white.
Beware new and interested applicants to the city attorney’s office.  This office uses citizens as temps putting them through the probation period and then dropping them for no cause a few days prior to their probation term being completed.  This is horrible for a government office to take tax payer money and dupe citizens into thinking they are retaining stable employment only to drop them a day shy of six months and begin the process all over again with another group of unknowing victims.  If you are entering or applying for the city attorney’s office ask the section during your interview about the retention rate, ask them how long the current people have been there, look past that one token employee they claim has been there for 7 years, what happened to the person who was in the position you’re interviewing for, why are you repeatedly being told “they just didn’t work out” or “it just wasn’t the right fit”, why so much turnover CAO, why??  
Ask these questions now, so that the Denver city attorney’s office does not turn you into just another unemployment statistic.

It is so fulfilling to provide assistance to needy adults, families and children.  It is an amazing fulling experience to know you were a part of so many success stories.  The front line staff is amazing, they have such compassion and respect for the clients.  Employees support each other and work well together to achieve incredible results. 
Regarding the Family and Adult Division do not apply.
The management team for the Family and Adult Division.and a majority of the supervisors were all promoted or hired because they either knew the division director or worked with her in the past.  If you don't agree with everything the division direct says or she doesn't like you for what ever reason she will make the job so difficult you are forced to quit.  It is a punitive environment, expectations change all the time but are not communicated. Staff are reprimanded unnecessarily regularly.

Denver Hunman Services does have other Divisions that are amazing to work for like CORE and Child Support where management is supportive to staff and recognizes them for the hard work they put in everyday..

The business stakeholders mistakenly believe they are competent to make technical decisions and then hold the technical stakeholders accountable for the results of those poor decisions. In short, the business and technical stakeholders are at war with each other and the politics are vicious.

Be prepared to try to explain very complex technical dynamics to people who have no idea what you're talking about but hold the decision-making authority for low level technical decisions. It's completely idiotic. 

If you're a contractor, you'll make a lot of money working here. If not, then odds are you are not every technically competent. If you were, you wouldn't take the low salaries they offer or the ineptness you have deal with on a daily basis. 

One thing you won't find out about until after you're hired as a contractor is their expectation that you'll be on 24/7 production support every 4 weeks or so. The response time required (15m) means you have to stay home for the week (M-Sun) you're on call. 

3 contractors on my team quit after 3 months over the course of the 2 years I was working there out of frustration with everyone's inability to get things done or willingness to change the way they did business.

Working as a Right of Way Enforcement Agent for the city was a horrible experience. We were very thoroughly trained on laws/ordinances and court, but they provided **zero** training on de-escalation, self defense, etc. Their reasoning, it seemed, was that if they didn’t train you on something and kept vague policies, they’d always be able to throw you under the bus. In totality, I wrote well over a million dollars a year in citations for the City, but got paid a wage which was  not sufficient to afford housing close to work or to even afford a parking spot at work! To make things worse, our staffing level was horrible, so there was constantly mandatory overtime. I worked 5x 8.5 hour shifts, but many weeks had to work 6 shifts or a be forced to work a 19 hour shift. Also, our dispatchers were incompetent so you’d be send out on complaints that were 3,4,7 days old. Oh, and if someone was being violent or pulled a weapon on you, the supervisors wouldn’t allow us to ask for DPD to come with lights and sirens. So, I never got backup in less than 15-minutes.

If I were to change anything, it would be allowing us to work four ten hour shifts or three twelves, and providing us with reliable backup from DPD. 

The city has a lot of talented personnel who would like to see organizational change, but whose managers are largely clueless about how to make that happen. As you might expect in large bureaucracies, the nearly 30 agencies of the city have little communication between themselves, and that's sometimes true within sub-departments of a single agency. The city, like other organizations, confuses "Leadership" and "Management", with the result that nothing substantial takes place. The city's 50+ mayoral appointees are sometimes strongly committed to the performance of their departments/activities, and sometimes not. Customer service is a principle the city has determined to be a top priority, but nobody, from the Mayor's Office on down, seems to make any headway--no internally developed curriculum, no master plan, no nothing. It's too bad, because I believe the city has all the intrinsic elements to move ahead with broad organizational change, but none of the organizational elements to guarantee its success. What a waste!

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
City planner 4 salaries reported	$106,539 per year
Case worker 5 salaries reported	$69,742 per year
Deputy sheriff 5 salaries reported	$79,367 per year
Building engineer 2 salaries reported	$39.48 per hour
Administrator 4 salaries reported	$111,456 per year

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