Deputy Director - Portfolio Management - 0904-Mayoral Staff XVI

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Deputy Director’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as a member of MOHCD’s Senior Leadership Team, providing executive leadership on agency priorities, strategic initiatives, and organizational management.
• Provide executive leadership and strategic direction for the 25-person Portfolio Management Division, ensuring alignment with MOHCD’s mission, priorities, and affordable housing objectives.
• Supervise Director-level managers responsible for major programs and ensure effective coordination across all functional areas.
• Establish division-wide goals, performance expectations, and operational priorities and efficiencies while fostering collaboration across all Portfolio Management functions.
• Develop and implement equitable policies that strengthen long-term stewardship of the City’s affordable housing portfolio and improve organizational effectiveness while balancing the needs of the communities living in affordable housing.
• Expand, standardize, and improve communication regarding City sponsored affordable housing operations, regulations and requirements among project sponsors, tenants and owners.
• Oversee the long-term financial and physical performance of the City’s publicly assisted affordable housing portfolio and direct strategies that preserve affordability, protect public investment, and promote high-quality housing.
• Provide executive oversight of affordable housing occupancy, marketing, lease-up, resident placement, housing lotteries, housing preference implementation, and DAHLIA operations to ensure equitable, transparent, and efficient administration of City affordable housing programs.
• Direct policies governing inclusionary policy implementation, asset management, regulatory compliance, occupancy administration, resident selection, and portfolio preservation.
• Oversee multifamily portfolio-related financing, recapitalization, rehabilitation planning, reserve management, and other long-term preservation initiatives.
• Coordinate with affordable housing and private developers, property management companies, lenders, realtors, investors, regulatory agencies, community-based organizations, and other City departments to advance transparent affordable housing policy and operational excellence.
• Represent MOHCD before the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, City commissions, community organizations, industry partners, and the public on portfolio performance, housing placements and operations, and inclusionary policy, as necessary.
• Identify emerging operational, financial, legislative, and regulatory issues affecting the City’s affordable housing portfolio and its residents and recommend strategic policy and management solutions.
• Promote innovation, accountability, equity, and continuous improvement across all Portfolio Management programs and operations.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Provide strong leadership, manage subordinate staff, exercise effective judgment in critical/emergency situations, analyze complicated and sensitive issues, and communicate and provide options clearly to the Mayor, Mayoral staff, commissions, boards, committees, other agencies and the public. Apply the principles of public administration, financial and personnel management and effectively interpret all applicable laws, ordinances and codes. Exercise independent analysis, adaptability and judgment on specialized proposals with difficult, complicated options. Effectively present Mayor's policies and opinions to outside entities such as the public, boards, commissions and government agencies. Maintain harmonious relationship with managers, City officials, unions, employees and the public.

Special Requirements:

Qualifications including a requirement for specialized knowledge, skills, abilities, education, experience, or licenses may be established for individual positions.

Online application available: Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Filling Deadline - Tuesday, September 29, 2026 - 11:59 pm

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

• Information About The Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

HOW TO APPLY

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All City and County of San Francisco employees are designated Disaster Service Workers through state and local law (California Government Code Section 3100-3109). Employment with the City requires the affirmation of a loyalty oath to this effect. Employees are required to complete all Disaster Service Worker-related training as assigned, and to return to work as ordered in the event of an emergency.

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.