SAN FRANCISCO HEALTH NETWORK DIRECTOR (1166-Administrator, Department of Public Health)
About The Position
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.
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
