As a strategic management professional, Shirvahna Gobin calls on highly developed collaborative skills and a capacity for goal-directed problem-solving. She has been driving change for community-service organizations since 2002, when she became a service manager for the September 11th Fund. Over the course of a three-year tenure, Shirvahna Gobin created and oversaw programs to improve services for those affected by the events of 9/11.

Shirvahna Gobin moved on from this role to become director of development for The Ecologies of Learning Project at the New York Theological Seminary. She then became director of community initiatives for the Urban League for Bergen County (New Jersey), where she identified gaps in service and acted to provide needed outreach. Later, as director of cancer services for the New York State Department of Health and the American Cancer Society, she developed methods for the identification of potential study populations while coordinating outreach for screening and research services.

In 2013, Shirvahna Gobin joined the New York City Department of Correction as executive director of constituent services and intergovernmental affairs. She soon accepted promotion to the role of assistant commissioner for strategic planning, in which capacity she helped to develop the large-scale Anti-Violence Reform Agenda. Having created the Project Management Office and Operational Management Unit for implementation of the program, she now oversees all Agenda-related functions as deputy commissioner.