Director Of Strategic Initiatives Jobs for OPT Students

Company Description

• Work Location: 39 Treasure Island Road, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Position Status: Full-time
• Compensation information: $94.5250 - $120.6625 (hourly) / $196,612 and $250,978 (annually) (Range A)
• Working Arrangement: TIDA offers a hybrid work schedule, with administrative staff generally working from home one day per week.
• Fill Type: Permanent Exempt: This is an Exempt position excluded by the Charter from the competitive Civil Service examination process, pursuant to the City and County of San Francisco, Charter Section 10.104. It is considered "at will" and shall serve at the discretion of the Appointing Officer.
• Job Announcement Posting Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
• Job Announcement Deadline: Apply Immediately. This recruitment is considered open until filled, though candidates are encouraged to express interest early in the process. For first consideration, please submit your application by 11:59pm on Sunday, March 22, 2026.

Agency Description:

The Treasure Island Development Authority (“TIDA”) is an agency under the Office of the City Administrator.

About the Office of the City Administrator's Mission and Vision

Our vision is to lead the nation in public administration and to enable City departments to effectively deliver critical public services. We aim to help the city run better, to connect San Francisco residents and constituents to the vital public services they seek, and to create a meaningful and diverse work culture that is the place of choice for people who are invested in a career in public service.

We are committed to ensuring that the City's services are inclusive, efficient, equitable, and culturally competent for San Franciscans of all races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and sexual orientations. This commitment requires comprehensive review and thorough analysis of existing practices and policies to remove barriers to real inclusion.

We are also committed to ensuring that we have a safe, equitable, and inclusive workplace for individuals of all races. This includes creating opportunities for hiring, promotion, training, and development for all employees, including but not limited to Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).

About TIDA and the Development Program on Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island

The Treasure Island Development Authority (“TIDA”) is an agency under the Office of the City Administrator. It is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the successful large-scale redevelopment, sustainability and long-term stewardship of the former naval base on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island – transforming the former naval bases into a new vibrant, inclusive and resilient San Francisco neighborhood. This includes overseeing all phases of development and milestone tracking of residential, hotels, and commercial/retail sites beginning with subdivision and mapping actions through the permitting of individual sites to final certificates of occupancy. In so doing, TIDA works in close partnership with City departments, private developers (particularly the Treasure Island Community Development LLC (“TICD”), which is the developer consortium leading the development program under the framework of the Development Agreement), community organizations, and state and federal agencies to ensure the successful delivery of this generational project.

When concluded, the roughly $5B project will feature 8,000 new homes (with over 27% affordable); 300 acres of extensive parks, trails, open spaces and public art; new state-of-the-art City infrastructure and significant transportation improvements to promote green mobility, renewable energy and climate resilience; and new restaurants, hotels, shops and commercial areas. The current project completion date is projected for 2046.

In addition to redevelopment, TIDA oversees day-to-day Island operations (with policy direction from the Treasure Island Development Board Authority Board), including: managing commercial tenancy and residential property leases in former Navy housing; stakeholder partnerships; public safety coordination; delivery of utility and City services; coordinating on-Island events; parks and open space maintenance oversight; and community engagement efforts.

TIDA undertakes this work with an operating budget of roughly $35 million and a staff of 13 employees.

Job Description

Under general direction from the TIDA Director, the Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives is responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary team (including TIDA contractors, consultants and TIDA staff) in coordinating the successful planning and redevelopment of Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island. This includes development agreement implementation; infrastructure and affordable housing construction; transportation program development and system implementation; environmental and land remediation; parks and open space planning and construction; development and implementation of resiliency strategies; and inclusive and equitable urban and land use planning policies informed by transparent and meaningful public engagement and TIDA Board policy priorities.

This position is one of two deputy positions in TIDA (with the other being the Chief Operating Officer, who has general responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day island operations and managing TIDA’s finances and administrative programs).

Reporting directly to the TIDA Director, the Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives’ responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Managing and directing TIDA’s engineering, planning and communications staff to ensure high performance, accountability, professional development and effective collaboration in achieving TIDA’s redevelopment goals, priority initiatives and milestones.

• Monitoring project milestones and performance indicators; and overseeing progress on project delivery pursuant to and in compliance with the Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) and related plans.

• Facilitating the efficient and effective review and approval of infrastructure plans and permits (including subdivision mapping actions and construction management oversight of new public infrastructure) and coordinating new infrastructure acceptance and transfer of assets to responsible City departments.

• Collaborating closely with the principal developer (TICD) on infrastructure delivery, construction management, interagency coordination, funding goals and resource allocations; and serving as the primary liaison between TICD and the public agencies responsible to implement project delivery.

• Working with the TIDA Director and the Chief Operating Officer to support public transit planning, construction and integration (including on-island transportation as well as ferry service) in collaboration with local and regional agencies.

• Partnering closely with the TIDA Director, the Chief Operating Officer and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development to coordinate and drive the successful delivery of new affordable housing.

• Working with the TIDA Director to develop and advance TIDA’s public affairs, legislative and political strategy, with a focus on being proactive, solutions-oriented, transparent, inclusive and community-focused.

• Supporting TIDA’s efforts on strengthening community engagement frameworks to deliver community benefits, including housing production and workforce goals.

• Supporting TIDA’s work with the Department of Navy and State regulators on the Navy’s environmental remediation efforts and to the effectuate transfer of land (the formal naval base).

• Representing TIDA in public forums, at community engagements and before regulatory agencies to present on and advocate for TIDA initiatives and priorities.

• Managing and maintaining effective relationships with City agencies, state and federal regulatory agencies and partners; community stakeholders and leaders; horizontal and vertical developers; and technical and legal consultants.

• Collaborating with City departments, developers and community stakeholders to align TIDA’s strategic goals with broader municipal priorities.

• Ensuring compliance with federal, state and local laws, regulations and requirements.

• Participating in budget development, and managing and monitoring division resources to anticipate future needs and effectively achieve goals within budget allocations.

The ideal candidate is an effective communicator and strategic leader with expertise in project management and demonstrated success in the delivery of a complex (multi-phased and mixed use) multi-stakeholder redevelopment program involving multiple regulatory agencies and inclusive community participation. They are able to work with all stakeholders and are particularly effective in anticipating, identifying and successfully navigating areas of potential conflict or concern and surfacing issues for resolution or action to expedite development program delivery and avoid delays and cost escalations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university AND

Experience: Four (4) or more years of demonstrated managerial experience in directly designing, planning, regulating, permitting, or directly coordinating the construction/delivery of:

• Large-scale mixed-use or public-private partnership (P3) redevelopment or development projects; or
• Large-scale capital projects or transportation projects including multiple right-of-way components, and the involvement and approval of multiple public agencies.

All four (4) years of this experience must have included the direct supervision of professional staff engaged in the above activities.

Substitution: Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for up to two years of the required education on a year-for-year basis (30 semester/ 45 quarter units equals one year).

Desirable Qualifications:

• Direct experience in leading or coordinating the delivery of mixed-use development or redevelopment projects requiring the involvement of and approval by various public agencies with complex permitting requirements, preferably in the Bay Area but ideally in San Francisco.

• Direct experience in leading or coordinating the delivery of large-scale public-private partnership development or redevelopment projects requiring the involvement of and approval by various public agencies with complex permitting, preferably in the Bay Area but ideally in San Francisco.

• Direct experience in leading or coordinating the delivery of large-scale municipal infrastructure or transportation projects including components that required the approval of and acceptance by at least one other public agency, preferably in the Bay Area but ideally in San Francisco.

• Direct experience in and knowledge of zoning, design review, environmental review and permitting requirements for mixed-use redevelopment or development projects, preferably in the Bay Area and ideally also requiring approval from San Francisco public agencies.

• Deep knowledge of environmental remediation standards, practices and regulatory approval requirements; ideally including experience working directly with Federal, State and San Francisco regulatory agencies.

• Experience in successfully advocating before regulatory agencies and legislative bodies to obtain required approvals for large-scale redevelopment or development projects, preferably in the Bay Area but ideally in San Francisco.

• Experience presenting on complex information and/or sensitive issues in meetings with various stakeholders (including members of the community), and making presentations to elected or appointed boards or commissions on such matters, preferably in the Bay Area but ideally in San Francisco.

• Knowledge of and experience in urban sustainability and resiliency best practices.

• Experience in planning, designing, delivering or overseeing the maintenance of open spaces and parks informed by community participation and inclusive policies.

• Success in economic development planning informed by inclusive priorities.

How to apply:

This recruitment is considered open until filled, though candidates are encouraged to express interest early in the process. For first consideration, please submit your application by 11:59pm on Sunday, March 22, 2026.

Please submit a cover letter and resume explaining why and how you believe you are the ideal candidate; and please specifically indicate which of the minimum qualifications you meet and how, and specifically whether and how you meet each of the specified desirable qualifications. Your cover letter will likely need to be more than one page.

Additional Information

• 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

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

Late or incomplete submissions will not be considered. Mailed, hand delivered or faxed documents/applications will not be accepted.

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).

Verification of Education and Experience:

Applicants may be required to submit verification of qualifying education and experience at any point during the recruitment and selection process. If education verification is required, information on how to verify education requirements, including verifying foreign education credits or degree equivalency, can be found at https://sfdhr.org/how-verify-education-requirements.

Note: Falsifying one’s education, training, or work experience or attempted deception on the application may result in disqualification for this and future job opportunities with the City and County of San Francisco.

All work experience, education, training, and other information substantiating how you meet the minimum qualifications must be included on your SmartRecruiters application by the filing deadline. Information must be entered into the SmartRecruiters applicant tracking system under the headings for Experience and Education. Leaving these sections blank and attaching a resume in lieu of completing the Experience and Education sections may cause your application to be rejected.

Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of a completed City and County of San Francisco application.

Applications completed improperly may be cause for ineligibility or disqualification.

Selection Procedures:

Applications will be reviewed in relation to the minimum qualifications and the needs of the Department. Applicants meeting the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement to an interview. Depending on the number of applicants, the Department may establish and implement additional screening mechanisms to comparatively evaluate the qualifications of candidates. If this becomes necessary, only those applicants whose qualifications most closely meet the needs of the Department will be invited for an interview.

Note: Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed to advance through all of the steps in the selection process.

You may contact Jason Wong via email at jason.wong3@sfgov.org with questions regarding this opportunity.

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.