Health Educator

Health Educator (2822) – San Francisco Department of Public Health

Under general supervision, the Health Educator leads public health education initiatives; plans, conducts and evaluates special and continuing programs; may supervise subordinates and performs related duties as required.

• Acts as health education specialist across departmental divisions, including policy development, systems change, coalition building, community mobilization, and education of providers, community members and individuals.
• Supervises Assistant Health Educators, interns or other related staff as needed.
• Provides backbone staffing to DPH and community coalitions focused on culturally relevant health prevention and promotion projects, activities, and programs.
• Plans, organizes, conducts, and evaluates training programs for DPH employees, the SF Health Network, and community partners.
• Develops communications plans utilizing relevant and effective communication strategies; produces, updates printed and electronic materials.
• Keeps informed of current trends in public health, community relations; represents department in professional and community affairs.
• Partners with and provides technical assistance to community organizations to support objectives and programs of DPH; attends and addresses meetings; acts as technical advisor; arranges meetings and obtains speakers; recruits volunteers for DPH programs.
• Analyzes and utilizes data for policy analysis, program planning and evaluation, and other related work.
• Prepares strategic plans, reports to funders, grant proposals, position papers, quality improvement (QI) activities, and other key documents.
• Confers with supervisor and branch leadership regarding assignments, problems, and progress.
• Attends branch, division, and department level staff meetings.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH) with a concentration in Health Education accredited by CEPH, OR
• Completion of 4 courses (minimum 10 semester units) in program planning/evaluation, community assessment/intervention, public health education/social behavior theory, community organization/promotion, group process, training fundamentals, culture/ethnic diversity, eliminating health disparities/inequities, community-based research methods; AND
• 6 months (1040 hours) of health educator experience during or post-Master’s program in a public or community health setting.

• Bilingual proficiency may be required; only candidates who pass the bilingual proficiency test will be considered.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of protected-category status.

Application Opening – Friday, January 2, 2026
Final date to receive applications – Continuous until Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Salary – $116,064–$141,102 annually
Recruitment
-2819-H00144