PROVISIONAL to PERMANENT - DIRECTOR OF IT ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES (1825) - Citywide (159711)

Company Description

THIS IS A CITYWIDE RECRUITMENT FOR CURRENT CITY EMPLOYEES ONLY.

This is a Provisional to Permanent position in accordance with Class-Based Test (CBT) Civil Service Rules.

Only currently active, provisional employees of the City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco Unified School District, or San Francisco City College, working within the 1825 Principal Administrative Analyst II classification will be placed on the eligible list for consideration of future permanent positions.

San Francisco is a vibrant and dynamic city, on the forefront of economic growth & innovation, urban development, arts & entertainment, as well as social issues & change. This rich tapestry of culture and ideas is sustained by our City's commitment to heighten the quality of life for the diverse population of San Franciscans and residents of the greater Bay Area. Our employees play an important role not only in making our City what it is today, but also in shaping the future of San Francisco.

• Application Opening: December 2, 2025
• Application Filing Deadline: December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM {PDT)
• Recruitment ID: ETP-1825-159711/ RTF0159710-01122546

Job Description

Under administrative direction, the Class 1825 Principal Administrative Analyst II is responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and may supervise staff engaged in difficult, complex, sensitive, detailed, and/or consequential analytical work including complex quantitative and qualitative analysis in the areas of budget, contracts, financial/fiscal, economic, legislative, and administrative policies. Class 1825 Principal Administrative Analyst II is a unique level in the Administrative Analyst series.

1. Working independently, researches, analyzes, forecasts and makes policy recommendations on unique special projects with significant financial impact or highly visible public issues including administrative policies, practices, and procedures; may direct mission-critical financial or operational activities; responds to informational requests, including those of a highly sensitive nature, and may represent the department to the Mayor's Office, Board of Supervisors, Controller's Office, other city officials, outside agencies and the public; acts as executive assistant and provides administrative analysis including complex forecast modeling to high-level managers or a department head.
2. Plans, develops and directs the production of highly complex departmental budget(s); advises management in the budget development and management process, including formulating policy, monitoring, reporting and interpreting budget documents; may negotiate budget proposals within the department and with the Mayor's Office, Board of Supervisors, and other agencies; prepares or supervises staff in the preparation of budget line-item narratives, complex analyses, recommendations and justification based on complex statistical analyses for annual, supplemental and multiyear requests.
3. Establishes, administers, monitors, coordinates and acts as liaison regarding application for and management of extremely complex, multiple source capital projects and/or grants; ensures compliance of fund reallocations with funding agency requirements; analyzes trends in expenditures and revenues for multi-year budgets; prepares financial/statistical reports for management, Mayor's Office, Board of Supervisors, Controller's Office and other funding agencies; coordinates and monitors departmental reporting to funding agencies including the subvention of funds to contracting organizations and justifies that funds are used as required.
4. Plans, develops, performs and directs work involving extremely complex economic and/or financial analysis including finance and utility rate analysis and modeling, cost/benefit analysis, and capital planning for senior management; determines appropriate methodology and performs difficult financial analyses, including financial forecasting, revenue and/or expense projections, capital requirements, calculation of debt capacity and evaluation of financing alternatives utilizing specialized analytical software to produce complex analysis or data; makes written and oral recommendations on difficult administrative and fiscal issues.
5. Analyzes, evaluates, interprets, and implements new and existing governmental accounting pronouncements and technical guidance; identifies problems with, and develops and implements changes to current financial policies and procedures; may coordinate and oversee the annual financial audit including preparation of audit schedules and governmental accounting standards, and local, state, and federal regulations.
6. Identifies and analyzes highly complex existing, newly enacted and proposed local, state, federal legislation policies and procedures pr