Deputy Director of Community Benefits - External Affairs - SFPUC (0923) - (155680)

Company Description

• Application Opening: Friday, May 23, 2025
• Application Deadline:  Friday, June 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM, PST
• Compensation Range: Annual $141,700 and $180,856
• Recruitment ID: PBT-0923-155680 / RTF0155679-01118476

Amended on 6/4/2025: The filing deadline has been further extended to June 13, 2025. Applicants who have already applied to this recruitment do not need to re-apply. 

Appointment Type: This is a Position-Based Test conducted in accordance with CSC Rule 111A.

WHO ARE WE?
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) 
Headquartered in San Francisco, we have 2,300 employees operating across eight counties serving more than 2.7 million customers in the San Francisco Bay Area – 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

Our Mission: To provide our customers with high quality, efficient, and reliable water, power, and wastewater services in a manner that values environmental and community interests and sustains the resources entrusted to our care.

Our Vision: We are an innovative utility leader, recognized for excellent results in service, safety, stewardship, and inclusiveness.

We are an award-winning and industry-leading utilities organization committed to our customers, community interests, and the environment. To learn more about our organization, please visit our website at https://www.sfpuc.gov/.

We are proud of our infrastructure and programs, but most importantly, we value our highly qualified and dedicated workforce which ensures that this vision becomes a reality.

To learn more about working at the SFPUC, visit our career site at https://www.sfpuc.gov/about-us/careers-sfpuc

About the Community Benefits Division of the External Affairs Bureau

The External Affairs Bureau at the SFPUC oversees the Agency's local, state and federal legislative and policy activities, communications and community engagement community benefits and environmental justice programs.  The Community Benefits Division develops the strategic frameworks for Agency-wide community benefits and environmental justice programs and activities, partners with community-based stakeholders and other City & County of San Francisco agencies, manages pilot programs, and evaluates community outcomes related to investments and partnerships.

In January 2011, the SFPUC adopted a Community Benefits Policy to advance the agency’s responsibility to be a good neighbor to all those impacted by its activities and promote sustainability by adoption of a triple bottom line, which balances the SFPUC’s economic, environmental and social equity goals.

Job Description

Under the direction of the SFPUC Community Benefits (CB) Director, the Deputy Director will:  

Perform a broad range of managerial, professional, and analytical work. 

Provide overall support to the CB Director as needed, including in: (i) the management of program staff with varying roles across the CB Division; (ii) hands-on technical support for CB staff working to implement key programs and initiatives in service to local communities impacted by SFPUC projects and operations; (iii) ensuring the seamless execution of CB projects, contracts and events; (iv) building and maintaining collaborative relationships within and external to CB in service of project, contract and event execution; (v) overseeing the scoping and implementation of the community benefits components of all SFPUC capital projects; (vi) internal collaboration with executive members and managerial staff of SFPUC Water, Wastewater, and Power Enterprises; and (vii) advancing the SFPUC’s core objectives, goals, and plans to achieve positive community impacts as a result of the operation of SFPUC’s Enterprises.  

Provide strategic support and direction to program staff on a variety of technical functions, including, but not limited to: developing and negotiating contract language, MOUs, and other documents navigating policies, directives, and processes that apply to CB’s work; mapping out project plans with key staff for seamless execution that include engagement of key stakeholders; building or improving programs to advance equitable outcomes for the communities served by the SFPUC; and evaluating the impact of CB’s work.   

Mitigate challenges, propose solutions, and proactively and effectively escalate critical issues to CB and EA leadersh