Chief People Officer

Founded in 1950, St. Anthony's is the most comprehensive safety net service center in San Francisco, directly providing food, clothing, medical care, addiction recovery services, access to technology, job training, and other critical resources to the community. Every day we support and are supported by thousands of San Franciscans. Everyone who comes through our doors joins the St. Anthony's team and helps us create a future where all people flourish.

St. Anthony’s work is rooted in Franciscan values, which include honoring the dignity and distinctiveness of each person, compassionately accompanying others on their journey, and acting in solidarity with those in need.

The Chief People Officer (CPO) builds and stewards the systems, culture, and leadership capability that allow St. Anthony Foundation to do its work. The role is accountable for how SAF attracts, develops, compensates, retains, roughly 250 people who serve some of the most vulnerable residents of San Francisco. This includes shepherding workforce development of the approximately 30% of staff who are former guests.

Specifically, the CPO leads the People team in the areas of workforce planning, talent acquisition and development, succession planning, employee engagement and retention, employee relations, compensation and benefits, performance management, compliance, HR operations, safety, and workers' compensation. The CPO provides strategic leadership and oversight of these functions through the team, maintaining accountability for their effectiveness, performance, and outcomes. In addition, the CPO is intimately involved in operations, finance, and IT functions.

This is a builder role. The CPO will inherit important capabilities that are still developing and will be expected to establish the systems, team capacity, management practices, and accountability required for a mature People function. Over the next three years the Chief People Officer is expected to design and build: documented systems and processes, workforce analytics that inform decisions, a leadership development and succession architecture, and a culture practice that makes the Foundation’s Franciscan commitments legible in how it treats its own staff.

Strategic leadership and executive partnership

• Develop and lead a multi-year people, talent, and workforce strategy that translates the Foundation’s strategic plan into the workforce, leadership, organizational capabilities, and culture required to achieve it.
• Advise the Chief Executive Officer, the Executive Management Team, and the Board on workforce strategy, organizational design, succession, executive recruitment, leadership capability, and workforce risk.
• Personally serve as a candid thought partner to the Chief Executive Officer on difficult people and organizational decisions.
• Bring the Executive Management Team a forward view of workforce needs rather than a backward report, on a defined cadence.
• Represent the Foundation in workforce, educational, employment, and professional partnerships that strengthen talent pipelines and organizational reputation.

Culture and leadership development

• Translate the Foundation’s Franciscan mission and Statement of Values into practiced organizational behavior: how people are hired, developed, evaluated, corrected, and let go.
• Steward the Foundation’s leadership language and formation work, so that what St. Anthony’s believes about human dignity is legible in how it treats its own staff and its mission.
• Own leadership development strategy for the Foundation, delivered through the Learning and Development function rather than personally.
• Personally coach executives and directors on leadership effectiveness, accountability, and difficult…