Breaking the Cycle Prevention Fellow - Dept. of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (TEX 1824 Principal Administrative Analyst)

City and County of San Francisco•San Francisco, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) is seeking a Prevention Fellow to accelerate high-impact initiatives under the Mayor’s Breaking the Cycle agenda. The Fellow will be based at HSH but will work across City Departments to strengthen San Francisco’s upstream response to homelessness by optimizing prevention investments, integrate predictive analytics into service delivery, and design program models that reduce inflow into chronic homelessness. HSH strives to make homelessness in San Francisco rare, brief, and one time by providing coordinated, compassionate, and high-quality services. The Department assists homeless and at-risk youth, adults, and families to prevent homelessness and end it for people in San Francisco. Services include outreach, homelessness prevention, emergency shelter, drop-in centers, transitional housing, supportive housing, short-term rental subsidies, and support services. San Francisco is a pioneer in homeless services and a leader in providing supportive housing as a permanent exit from homelessness. Founded in 2016, HSH is a national leader in the movement to end homelessness by developing a coordinated, equity-driven, client-focused system of compassionate services while piloting innovative models and implementing best practice solutions with measurable results. HSH’s Homelessness Response System (HRS) funds, oversees and implements a system of care that shelters, houses, and serves approximately 15,000 people daily. Major programs include street outreach and service connection through the Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT); a 3,600+ bed shelter system for transitional age youth, adults and families including shelters for members of the LGBTQ community; rapid rehousing rental subsidies for families, adults, older adults, and transitional aged youth; the Problem Solving and flexible financial assistance programs; and robust supportive housing programs with over 14,500 units which provide housing and services to formerly homeless transitional age youth, individuals, and families.

Requirements

Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; AND Five (5) years full-time equivalent experience performing professional-level analytical work. Qualifying professional-level analytical work includes analysis, development, administration, and reporting in major programs and functions of an organization in the areas of budgets, contracts, grants, policy, or other functional areas related to the duties of positions in the 182X Class series.
Additional qualifying experience as described above may substitute for the required degree on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of two (2) years. One year is equivalent to thirty (30) semester or forty-five (45) quarter units.
Possession of a graduate degree (Master's degree or higher) from an accredited college or university with major coursework in specialized subject matter areas such as public or business administration, management, business law, contract law, public policy, urban studies, economics, statistical analysis, finance, accounting or other fields of study closely related to the essential functions of positions in the 182X Class series may be substituted for one (1) year of required experience.

Nice To Haves

Professional experience in homelessness systems, public finance, healthcare, or related fields.
Experience working with quantitative data and translating analytics into operational decisions.
Strong stakeholder management skills and demonstrated ability to navigate complex public systems and partner with philanthropy/external partners.

Responsibilities

Lead development of a citywide homelessness prevention strategy aligned with Breaking the Cycle priorities.
Analyze current prevention spending across departments and recommend optimization strategies to better target high-risk populations.
Identify structural barriers that limit prevention effectiveness and propose policy or programmatic adjustments.
Design scalable prevention program models that reduce inflow into chronic homelessness.
Support pilot initiatives and proof-of-concept programs that test targeted prevention approaches.
Partner closely with California Policy Lab to interpret predictive risk modeling and translate analytics into actionable prevention workflows.
Design operational processes for identifying and proactively engaging individuals at highest risk of homelessness.
Develop decision frameworks that align predictive risk thresholds with intervention levels and funding allocation.
Collaborate with City data and program teams to integrate predictive insights into frontline prevention programs.
Establish performance metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess prevention impact over time.
Project manage BTC prevention projects.
Work across HSH and partner City departments to align prevention programming and funding streams.
Partner with philanthropy to optimize City prevention efforts.
Support development of budget proposals and reallocation strategies that prioritize high-impact prevention investments.
Facilitate interdepartmental working groups focused on prevention integration.
Prepare executive briefings, presentations, and implementation roadmaps for mayoral and departmental leadership.