Deputy Director, Multifamily Housing and Homeownership Programs - 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 for the City’s multifamily housing production, acquisition, preservation, housing finance, and homeownership programs.
• Establish strategic direction and organizational priorities for the Division.
• Supervise Director-level managers responsible for major housing program operations and ensure effective coordination across all functional areas.
• Manage MOHCD’s affordable housing pipeline by coordinating multifamily pipeline budget review meetings, maintaining up to date the multifamily budget projections, and overseeing the strategic allocation of local, state, and federal funding resources supporting affordable homeownership and multifamily housing production and preservation.
• Develop and implement policies, funding strategies, and innovative financing approaches that expand affordable housing production, preservation, and homeownership opportunities.
• Oversee the review and approval process for new construction, acquisition, preservation, housing finance, and homeownership funding recommendations, ensuring timely executive review and successful approval by the Citywide Loan Committee and Board of Supervisors.
• Serve as MOHCD’s executive lead for joint development agreements and coordinate affordable housing planning efforts with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure and other City agencies.
• Foster strategic partnerships with City departments, elected officials, affordable housing developers, lenders, realtors, nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, and regional, state, and federal partners to advance the City’s housing goals.
• Recommend and implement policies, procedures, and strategic initiatives that improve organizational performance, operational effectiveness, and equitable access to affordable housing and homeownership opportunities.
• Oversee division budgets, contracts, funding allocations, and administrative resources to ensure responsible stewardship of public funds.
• Represent MOHCD before the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, City commissions, community organizations, industry partners, and the public on affordable housing policy, financing, and homeownership initiatives, as necessary.
• Identify emerging housing needs and recommend innovative financing strategies, public-private partnerships, and policy solutions that advance the City’s affordable housing and homeownership objectives.
• Champion equity, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across all Multifamily Housing and Homeownership Programs.
• 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 - extended until - Wednesday, October 14, 2026.

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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Exam Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the exam analyst at Karen Henderson - [email protected]

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.

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.