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About the Role

The Prevention Fellow will accelerate high-impact initiatives under the Mayor’s Breaking the Cycle agenda. The Fellow will work across City Departments to strengthen San Francisco’s upstream response to homelessness by optimizing prevention investments, integrating predictive analytics into service delivery, and designing program models that reduce inflow into chronic homelessness.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of a citywide homelessness prevention strategy aligned with Breaking the Cycle priorities.
• Analyze current prevention spending across departments and recommend optimization strategies to better target high-risk populations.
• Identify structural barriers that limit prevention effectiveness and propose policy or programmatic adjustments.
• Design scalable prevention program models that reduce inflow into chronic homelessness.
• Support pilot initiatives and proof-of-concept programs that test targeted prevention approaches.
• Partner closely with California Policy Lab to interpret predictive risk modeling and translate analytics into actionable prevention workflows.
• Design operational processes for identifying and proactively engaging individuals at highest risk of homelessness.
• Develop decision frameworks that align predictive risk thresholds with intervention levels and funding allocation.
• Collaborate with City data and program teams to integrate predictive insights into frontline prevention programs.
• Establish performance metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess prevention impact over time.
• Project manage BTC prevention projects.
• Work across HSH and partner City departments to align prevention programming and funding streams.
• Partner with philanthropy to optimize City prevention efforts.
• Support development of budget proposals and reallocation strategies that prioritize high-impact prevention investments.
• Facilitate interdepartmental working groups focused on prevention integration.
• Prepare executive briefings, presentations, and implementation roadmaps for mayoral and departmental leadership.
• Gain direct exposure to mayoral priority-setting and cross-department decision-making.
• Gain applied experience integrating predictive analytics into real-world public systems.
• Gain a deep understanding of how policy design, funding strategy, data science, and service delivery intersect in homelessness prevention.

Requirements

• Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Five (5) years 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 the areas of budgets, contracts, grants, policy, or other functional areas related to the duties of positions in the 182X Class series.
• Additional qualifying experience may substitute for the required degree on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of two (2) years.
• One year is equivalent to thirty (30) semester or forty-five (45) quarter units.
• 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 182X Class series may be substituted for one (1) year of required experience.
• Professional experience in homelessness systems, public finance, healthcare, or related fields.
• Experience working with quantitative data and translating analytics into operational decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and demonstrated ability to navigate complex public systems and partner with philanthropy/external partners.

Skills

• Strategic and Operational Problem Solving
• Data, Analysis, and Systems Design
• Cross-Departmental Coordination
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Budget Alignment
• Quantitative data analysis
• Translating analytics into operational decisions
• Stakeholder management
• Navigating complex public systems
• Partnering with philanthropy/external partners

Location

• San Francisco

Work Type

• Temporary Exempt
• Regular

Experience Level

• 5 years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• Graduate degree (Master's degree or higher)

Salary/Compensations

• $146,016 - $177,528

Benefits

• Employee Benefits Overview
• Municipal Executive Association Benefits Overview

About the Company

• Through the provision of coordinated, compassionate, and high‐quality services, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) strives to make homelessness in San Francisco rare, brief, and one time.
• The Department provides assistance and support to homeless and at‐risk youth, adults, and families to prevent imminent episodes of homelessness and end homelessness for people in San Francisco.
• Services including outreach, homelessness prevention, emergency shelter, drop‐in centers, transitional housing, supportive housing, short‐term rental subsidies, and support services to help people exit homelessness.
• San Francisco is a pioneer in homeless services and a leader in providing supportive housing as a permanent exit from homelessness.
• The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), founded in 2016, is a national leader in the movement to end homelessness by developing a coordinated, equity-driven, client-focused system of compassionate services while piloting innovative models, and implementing best practice solutions with measurable results.
• HSH’s Homelessness Response System (HRS) funds, oversees and implements a system of care that shelters, houses, and serves approximately 15,000 people daily.
• Major programs include: street outreach and service connection through the Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT); 3,600+ bed shelter system for transitional age youth, adults and families including shelters for members of the LGBTQ community; rapid rehousing rental subsidies for families, adults, older adults, and transitional aged youth; the Problem Solving and flexible financial assistance programs; and robust supportive housing programs with over 14,500 units which provide housing and services to formerly homeless transitional age youth, individuals, and families.

Equal 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.