SAN FRANCISCO HEALTH NETWORK DIRECTOR (1166-Administrator, Department of Public Health)

The Department of Public Health prioritizes equitable and inclusive access to quality healthcare for its community and values the importance of diversity in its workforce. All employees at the Department of Public Health work to advance equity, inclusion, and diversity with a specific lens and focus on race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, disability, and immigration status.  Application Opening: Friday, September 25, 2026 Application Deadline: Continuous Salary:  $304,278 to $388,284 Annually (Range A) Appointment Type:  Permanent Exempt    Recruitment ID: PEX-1166-RTF0165752-01090135 Work Arrangement: Onsite The first application review will take place on Friday, October 2nd. Interviews to be held on October 8th and 9th (preferably in person). The Mission of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is to protect and promote the health of all San Franciscans. Fulfilling this mission requires employees working across our hospitals, clinics, programs, and offices to deliver services and support the communities we serve. Individuals interested in joining DPH should expect to work in person across these settings. DPH operates one of the most complex and integrated public health systems in the nation, encompassing approximately $3.6 billion in annual funding, a workforce of nearly 9,000 employees, and services delivered through two hospitals, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Laguna Honda Hospital & Rehabilitation Center, and more than 45 primary and specialty care clinics, behavioral health programs, population health services, emergency preparedness, managed care, and a broad network of community-based partners.  SAN FRANCISCO HEALTH NETWORK DIRECTOR (1166-Administrator, Department of Public Health) Position Overview Build the future of public health care in San Francisco. San Francisco has always been a place where public health leads, not follows. The San Francisco Department of Public Health is known nationally for tackling the hardest health challenges, advancing equity, integrating care, and pushing what is possible in a public system. The San Francisco Health Network drives care delivery across the City’s public health safety-net system, in close partnership with Behavioral Health, Population Health, and other public health divisions. The Network delivers inpatient, primary, specialty, rehabilitation, home-based, and community-based care, bringing care directly to people where they are. Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is the City’s only Level I Trauma Center, serving residents who rely on San Francisco for timely, high-quality, reliable trauma care. The mandate is to run the Network as one fully integrated health delivery system, where clinics, hospitals, home-based care, and street teams operate as coordinated parts of a single system rather than a collection of separate programs. We are seeking an impact-driven executive leader energized by that scale. This is a defining leadership opportunity: to set strategy, drive execution, and deliver measurable results across one of the most complex and influential public health safety-net systems in the country. It calls for a leader who can set a clear system-wide strategy, drive productivity and outcomes across the delivery system, break longstanding silos, and bring the system into a new era that is fully integrated with population health, strengthening performance, improving outcomes, and helping set the national standard for modern public health care delivery. Role and Scope The Director of the San Francisco Health Network is the executive leader accountable for care delivery performance across the City’s public health safety-net system, designing, operating, measuring, and improving care across hospitals, clinics, care at home, street teams, and other non-traditional and community-based care settings. This is a system leader: the work is to establish how a network of parts operates together as one integrated system. This role owns system-level outcomes, including both care delivery performance and population health management. The Director drives improvement in access, throughput and patient flow; quality and safety; patient experience; workforce stability; equitable outcomes; population health results; and long-term financial sustainability. This is a builder role. The mandate is to turn strategy into results, integrating a complex set of services into one coordinated, high-performing safety-net system with clear priorities, disciplined execution, and transparent performance management. It means breaking longstanding silos, leading multidisciplinary teams with an upstream view of the populations served, and defining how the network’s parts will function together so that operational excellence, productivity, and revenue reinforce one another rather than compete. The Director: Sets the care delivery and population health strategy and drives execution for a fully integrated delivery system through clear goals, metrics, and operating cadence, aligning care delivery, revenue, and population health toward better outcomes Integrates care across settings, breaking longstanding silos, reducing fragmentation, and connecting clinics, hospitals, home-based care, HIV services, and street teams to improve outcomes across the continuum Uses data and performance insight to manage populations, surface gaps, identify disparities, prioritize interventions, and track results over time Leads execution at scale, translating departmental and public health priorities into operational improvements that produce measurable impact Aligns workforce strategy with performance goals, partnering with labor and frontline leaders in a unionized environment Improves financial sustainability through revenue integrity, productivity, and disciplined resource stewardship, without compromising access, equity, or mission Partners for outcomes with Behavioral Health, Population Healt