About the Role
The 0952 Deputy Director II of Restorative & Prevention Services is a key executive leadership role responsible for directing, strategic planning, and operational scaling across three vital divisions: Pretrial Services, Reentry Services, and Violence Response Services. This role provides vision, administrative direction, and executive oversight to ensure seamless, evidence-based, and client-centered care, advancing system reform, reducing recidivism, and promoting public safety.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic direction, vision, and administrative oversight for the Pretrial Services, Reentry Services, and Violence Response Services Divisions.
- Formulate, enforce, and evaluate division goals, operational standards, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and departmental policies aligned with executive directives and community safety goals.
- Serve as a key advisor to the Chief Probation Officer and represent SFAPD in executive decision-making, interagency committees, community forums, and media/public inquiries.
- Drive care-first and equity-centered systemic reforms that reduce unnecessary detention, address disproportionate impact, and foster public trust.
- Direct division managers and operational teams, ensuring daily service delivery aligns with evidence-based practices, statutory requirements, and quality control standards.
- Coordinate and leverage the Community Assessment Services Center (CASC) to establish robust referral pathways for case management, housing, workforce development, legal aid, behavioral health, and court-ordered release conditions.
- Oversee the proper application and integration of supervision technologies, electronic monitoring, criminal records systems, and data collection tools.
- Review and modernize training curricula for sworn and non-sworn staff to ensure high-quality delivery of trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, and culturally responsive services.
- Oversee the development, implementation, and monitoring of multi-million-dollar divisional budgets, resource allocations, and financial reporting.
- Manage public and CBO contracts, ensuring optimal resource utilization, operational efficiency, vendor performance, and strict regulatory compliance.
- Lead data management, performance metrics, and research efforts to evaluate program impact, inform policy decisions, enhance transparency, and prepare executive reports.
- Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Superior Court, District Attorney, Public Defender, Sheriff's Office, law enforcement, CBOs, faith-based partners, and victim advocates.
- Conduct stakeholder outreach to secure, maintain, and expand funding, grant opportunities, and strategic support for violence reduction and reentry initiatives.
Requirements
- Possession of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Criminal Justice, Social Work, Public Administration, Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, or a closely related field.
- Three (3) years of extensive management experience leading and directing a complex organization or division providing human, social, or criminal justice services (e.g., pretrial, rehabilitation, social welfare, probation, parole, corrections, law enforcement, or administrative/legal services).
- All three (3) years must include supervisory experience.
- Possession of a valid California Class 'C' Driver's License.
- Ability to work flexible hours, which may include evening meetings and weekend engagements and work duties as necessary to fulfill departmental and community representation duties.
Skills
- Evidence-based practices
- Risk assessment methodologies
- Focused deterrence
- Violence reduction strategies
- Continuity-of-care models
- Housing stabilization
- Workforce development
- Behavioral health
- Substance use interventions
- Strategic & Equity-Centered Leadership
- Organizational culture
- Care-first reform
- Systemic and implicit bias
- Professional development
- Cross-System Collaboration
- Performance management
- Outcome evaluation
- Technology integration
- Multi-million-dollar budget oversight
- Contract administration
- Resource allocation
- Court processes
- Criminal records
- Legal codes
- Bail statutes
- Supervision technologies
- Trauma-informed interventions
- Culturally responsive interventions
- Data management
- Performance metrics
- Research efforts
- Stakeholder outreach
- Funding and grant opportunities
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Permanent Exempt
- Regular
Experience Level
- Executive leadership
- Management experience
- Supervisory experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Social Work, Public Administration, Behavioral Sciences, Social Sciences, or a closely related field.
- Advanced Degree (J.D., M.S.W., M.P.A., M.P.P., or M.S.) in a relevant field.
About the Company
- The San Francisco Adult Probation Department (SFAPD) values the individuality and diversity of justice-involved adults, recognizes the unique challenges they face, and invests in their success through services designed to help them permanently exit the criminal justice system.
- SFAPD's pretrial, reentry, and rehabilitative services complement its supervision strategies by providing a unique blend of opportunity and accountability.
- The Department extends a continuum of integrated services to address clients' criminogenic needs and empower them to become productive members of the community.
- SFAPD dedicates endless energy toward enhancing public safety, seeking victim restoration, enforcing court-ordered accountability, providing structured evidence-based supervision, and operating comprehensive pretrial services on behalf of the Superior Court of San Francisco.
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.
