Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer – SFPUC – (0941) - (155715)

Company Description

• Application Opening: Thursday, June 12, 2025
• Application Deadline: Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM, PST
• Compensation Range: Annual Salary $189,878 - $242,398
• Recruitment ID: PBT-0941-155715 / RTF0155714- 01093846

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

Job Description

Under the general direction of the General Manager, the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (CDEIO) Officer is responsible for providing executive-level support to the General Manager through the execution of a broad and complex set of assignments as delegated. With the goal of achieving equitable and inclusive outcomes and cultural change, the CDEIO will lead high- profile projects that directly impact core operations through collaboration with SFPUC Executive Management and staff across all Enterprises and Bureaus and deliver sustainable solutions to some of SFPUC’s biggest challenges.

The CDEIO will collaborate with SFPUC’s Executive Management and staff to collectively undertake the aspirational charge of dismantling the unjust structural and institutional systems that perpetuate inequities and barriers to opportunity for our employees and for the people we serve. The CDEIO will develop solutions to proactively eliminate inequities, and to advance the equity-focused, inclusive design and delivery of programs and projects for SFPUC that achieve fair and just outcomes.  The CDEIO will manage a team of three 1824 Racial Equity Analysts.

The CDEIO will work collaboratively with SFPUC’s Executive Management, cross-functional staff throughout the organization, labor partners, educational institutions, foundations, community-based organizations, and other public and private partners to develop creative tools, strategies, and initiatives to improve (1) short-term performance and (2) long-term organizational health by maximizing the equitable inclusion and participation of all people and organizations.   

The CDEIO will serve as a SFPUC Racial Equity Lead within the organization with SFPUC’s Chief People Officer (“CPO”) and externally to other city departments and partners in collaboration with the Assistant General Manager of External Affairs (“AGM of EA”). The CDEIO will implement SFPUC’s Racial Equity Action Plans and develop racial equity indicators to measure current conditions, impact, results from changes made within programs or policy, and performance measures to evaluate efficacy - tools that will demonstrate how a City department addresses racial disparities within as well as in external programs. The CDEIO will be responsible for complying with and responding to the requirements and mandates of the City’s Office of Racial Equity (“ORE”).  A key component of the Racial Equity Action Plans is SFPUC’s workforce.

The CDEIO will also report publicly to the SFPUC Commission, ORE, and other stakeholders on a regular basis as required by law, resolution, and in response to requests. 

The CDEIO will generally support the ongoing commitment of the SFPUC to comply with applicable laws and to support ongoing efforts to manage agency operations and workforce in a fair, respectful, and inclusive manner. 

Essential Duties

• Collaborate across SFPUC’s Enterpris