SAN FRANCISCO HEALTH NETWORK DIRECTOR (1166-Administrator, Department of Public Health)
About The Position
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) is seeking an impact-driven executive leader to build the future of public health care in San Francisco. 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. 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. 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.
Requirements
- Possession of a master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Hospital Administration, Nursing, Medicine, Public Health Administration, Public Administration, Public Policy, Business Administration, Behavioral Science or a closely related field.
- At least five years of experience as an administrator of a large hospital, public health network, or related organization; or five years of complex health care administrative experience.
- May require possession of valid license to practice medicine issued by the State Board of Medical Examiners or another advance level medical or healthcare licensure or certification.
Nice To Haves
- Senior executive leadership experience in a complex health care delivery system
- Demonstrated success leading large, multi-site organizations through change
- Experience in unionized and publicly governed environments strongly preferred
- Proven ability to drive performance improvement and financial sustainability
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex operations with a strong focus on cost management and revenue optimization
- Proven experience guiding an integrated delivery system to achieve high-quality, coordinated care
- System-level experience running a fully integrated delivery system, spanning care delivery and revenue, population health, and managed care, with a track record of driving better outcomes
- Proven ability to build, lead, and strengthen high-performing, multidisciplinary teams, establishing how a network of parts operates together as one system
- Demonstrated ability to break longstanding silos and build bridges across divisions while empowering growth opportunities for individual leaders
- Skilled at uniting diverse stakeholders and fostering effective collaboration within a matrixed environment
- Proven ability to improve patient outcomes and experience in a safety net setting
Responsibilities
- 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 Health, and other divisions serving shared populations
- Builds and leads a strong and integrated team, establishing how the network’s parts operate together as one system and creating a shared culture of operational excellence, effective productivity, and revenue
- Strengthens leaders and breaks silos, with a proven ability to build bridges across divisions, empower growth opportunities for individual leaders, and lead multidisciplinary teams with an upstream, population-level view
- Operates in full public view, reporting clearly on performance, equity, population health outcomes, and results to executive leadership, oversight bodies, and the public
Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
