SAN Francisco HEALTH Network Director; -Administrator, Department of Public Health

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The Department of Public Health prioritizesequitableand 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
• Recruitment
  -1166-RTF
• 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 Healthis 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 animpact-driven executive leader energized by that scale.

This is a defining leadership opportunity: toset 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 roleowns system-level outcomes, including bothcare 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 abuilder role. The mandate is toturn strategy into results, integrating a complex set of services intoone coordinated, high-performing safety-net system with clear priorities, disciplined…