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Application Opening: June 5, 2024

Filing Deadline: June 26, 2024

The San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) brings together City government, schools, and community-based organizations to help our city’s children and youth, birth to age 24, and their families lead lives full of opportunity and happiness. We strive to make San Francisco a great place to grow up, and this requires resources, community engagement, collaboration, coordination, and creativity. Through our work we help children and youth to be healthy; succeed in school and prepare for the future; engage in positive activities when school is out; contribute to the growth, development and vitality of San Francisco and live in safe and supported communities.  

DCYF brings together City government, schools, and community-based organizations to help our city’s children and youth, birth to age 24, and their families lead lives full of opportunity and happiness. We strive to make San Francisco a great place to grow up, and this requires resources, community engagement, collaboration, coordination, and creativity. Through our work we help children and youth to be healthy; succeed in school and prepare for the future; engage in positive activities when school is out; contribute to the growth, development and vitality of San Francisco and live in safe and supported communities.  

DCYF manages the Student Success Fund (SSF).  The SSF was approved by San Francisco voters in November 2022 to provide vital additional resources for the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), with a dual focus on achieving grade-level success in core academic subjects and enhancing the social and emotional well-being of all SFUSD students.

Under the supervision of the Manager of Community Schools Initiatives, the Administrative Analyst conducts important, public, analytical work that has a substantive impact on schools through grants and contracts. This position’s work will include, but is not limited to, participating in and helping to manage robust voting and grant selection processes, meeting preparation, follow-up and notetaking. This position will also process and manage MOU’s; participate in comprehensive process analyses, evaluation, and reporting.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Under direction of the Manager of Community Schools Initiatives, the Administrative Analyst will:

• Provide administrative support to the Manager of Community Schools Initiatives and assist in performing difficult and detailed professional-level analysis, procedural, organizational and operational support.

• Manage the Manager of Community Schools Initiatives’ daily schedule and negotiate scheduling with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

• Screen and direct requests within the division and utilize an array of tools to manage organization of files and logistics; take notes; prepare and format reports; and plans, tracks, and reports on status of current upcoming projects.

• Support the Student Success Fund Advisory Council, as well as other community schools’ policy bodies. This includes supporting committee members, public attendees, stakeholders, etc. Also providing meeting preparation and day-of-meeting support such as sending out reminders, greeting the public, note taking, technical assistance, and ensuring accessibility both virtually and/or in person.

• Provide routine research and evaluation, document development, and summary reports.

Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and one (1) year full-time equivalent experience performing professional-level analytical work. Qualifying professional-level analytical work includes analysis, development, administration, and reporting in major programs and functions of an organization in areas such as budgets, contracts, grants, policy, or other functional areas related to the duties of positions in the 182X Class series.

Substitution:

Possession of a graduate degree (Master's degree or higher) from an accredited college or university with major coursework in specialized subject matter areas such as public or business administration, management, business law, contract law, public policy, urban studies, economics, statistical analysis, finance, accounting or other fields of study closely related to the essential functions of positions in the Class series may be substituted for the required one (1) year of experience.

Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis (up to a maximum of 2 years). Thirty (30) semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units equal one year. 

Desirable Qualifications:  

• Experience working with diverse stakeholders

• Experience working in education or with nonprofit leadership

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Strong analytical, program management, and systems-thinking skills

• Working knowledge of San Francisco’s education landscape, particularly related to the community schools’ approach 

• High comfortability in both creative and analytical work

• Strongly motivated to prioritize process as well as project goals

• Strong commitment to working on a team

Appointment Type: This is a Permanent Exempt (PEX), Category 18 position. This position is exempt from Civil Service Commission rules pursuant to the City and County of San Francisco, Charter Section 10.104, and incumbents are considered “at will” and serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.

Selection Procedures:

Minimum Qualification Supplemental Questionnaire (MQSQ): Candidates will be emailed a link to complete a Minimum Qualification Supplemental Questionnaire (MQSQ). This MQSQ is designed to evaluate if the applicant possesses the required minimum qualifications. Applicants must also complete the official application. It is essential that applicants provide complete information in identifying their education, experience and training. 

Candidates who send in a completed MQSQ by the provided deadline, and meet the minimum qualifications will be invited to participate in the Supplemental Questionnaire Evaluation.

Supplemental Questionnaire Evaluation:  Qualified candidates will be sent a link to complete an online Supplemental Questionnaire. It will contain essay questions designed to measure knowledge, skills, and/or abilities in job-related areas which have been identified as critical for this Student Success Fund position.  Failure to complete the MQSQ and the Supplemental Questionnaire by the established deadlines will result in disqualification. 

Recruitment Analyst Information:  If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the recruitment analyst, Victor Vallejo @ Victor.H.Vallejo@sfgov.org.

HOW TO APPLY

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Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up to date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com). 

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Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About The Hiring Process (https://sfdhr.org/information-about-hiring-process)

• Conviction History

• Employee Benefits Overview  (https://sfdhr.org/benefits-overview)  

• Equal Employment Opportunity (https://sfdhr.org/equal-employment-opportunity)  

• Disaster Service Worker (https://sfdhr.org/disaster-service-workers)

• ADA Accommodation

• Veterans Preference (http://sfdhr.org/information-about-hiring-process#veteranspreference)

• Seniority Credit in Promotional Exams

• Right to Work (https://sfdhr.org/information-about-hiring-process#identification)

• Copies of Application Documents

• Diversity Statement (https://sfdhr.org/information-about-hiring-process#diversitystatement)

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.