Job Class: 0310 Assistant Superintendent

Salary Range: $184,869 - $230,956/annually

Length of Appointment: July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026

Calendar: Full Time / Full Year

Who We Are

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is the seventh largest school district in California, serving more than 50,000 students who speak more than 44 documented languages across 121 schools in the city of San Francisco every year. We aim for every student who attends SFUSD schools to discover his or her spark, along with a strong sense of self and purpose, and that all students graduate from high school ready for college and career, and equipped with the skills, capacities and dispositions outlined in SFUSD’s Graduate Profile. Every day in our quest to achieve this mission we provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21^st century.

What It Means to Work Here

The SFUSD community is unified by our Core Values:

● Student-centered: We put students’ needs first

● Fearless: We persist through challenges

● United: We celebrate and build on each other’s strengths

● Social Justice: We stand with those most vulnerable in our community

● Diversity-driven: We respect and seek to understand each person

We are also inspired by Vision, Values and Guardrails which captures our aspirations and vision for the future of public education in San Francisco. Alongside the District’s strategic plan. SFUSD is reimagining how public education will change over the next decade to meet the dynamic future of San Francisco. As a CORE district, SFUSD is also a leader in critical systems change for more comprehensive school accountability and innovations that help strengthen the instructional core, which is the foundation of our strategic plan and Vision 2025.

Who We Want

We want talented people from diverse backgrounds and experiences, who are inspired by our mission, steeped in equity, and who are motivated to unleash our children’s potential. We want people who are strong collaborators, skilled communicators, and problem solvers who are comfortable in a community of continuous learning.

The Assistant Superintendent of Early Education and Elementary Schools serves as a key instructional leader within SFUSD, reporting to the Deputy Superintendent of Education Services and contributing to the District’s Senior Leadership Team. This role provides strategic leadership across the PK–5 continuum, ensuring alignment, coherence, and equity in teaching, learning, and leadership development from early education through elementary grades.

Essential Duties

The duties specified below are representative of the range of duties assigned to the job code/class and are not intended to be an inclusive or exhaustive list.

As the Assistant Superintendent, you will:

● Lead Early Education and Elementary schools SFUSD mission in partnership with , realizing the vision of the Graduate Profile through instructional coherence and anti-racist leadership moves.

● Supervise a cohort of Executive Directors to actively support the leadership development for early education and elementary school leaders.

● Provide visible district level leadership, support and guidance across all departments in service of the Board Adopted Vision, Values, Goals and Guardrails.

● Champion and model anti-racist leadership rooted in equity, the belief that all students can learn, and the understanding that we must interrupt inequities to ensure that each and every student receives the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century

● Provide visible district leadership across early education and elementary schools

● Partner with city agencies and community organizations to strengthen birth-to-third grade systems and access to high-quality early learning

● Support implementation of Universal PreKindergarten (UPK) and PK–3 alignment initiatives

● Collaborate with Executive Directors and centralized district departments to develop, implement, regularly evaluate, improve, and redesign instructional programs toward increasing student achievement at under-performing schools and closing the achievement and equity gap at all schools.

● Build a learning, equity, and performance-focused Early Education and Elementary LEAD team of Executive Directors that regularly engages in authentic collaborative learning to improve their own leadership capacity and success

● Ensure alignment and coherence of curriculum, assessment, and instructional practices across PreK–5, grounded in developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive practices.

● Use data systems and multiple measures to monitor progress, inform decision-making, and refine strategies to improve outcomes, particularly for historically underserved students.

● Lead the development of a high-performing LEAD team that engages in continuous improvement, shared learning, and accountability for results.

● Drive implementation of PK–5 alignment strategies that strengthen early literacy, math, and social-emotional development

● Work collaboratively with Executive Directors to ensure that school leaders have strong talent strategies in place designed to help recruit, develop and retain high quality, diverse staff that positively impact student outcomes

● Strategically build a strong, cohesive, and collaborative team among Executive Directors and others on the Elementary Team to ensure shared decision-making, commitment, and implementation of priorities and to model healthy and productive adult culture

● Develop and implement a comprehensive, equity-driven talent strategy, including supervision, evaluation, and ongoing development of Executive Directors and direct reports.

● Partner with Executive Directors to ensure school leaders recruit, develop, and retain high-quality, diverse staff aligned to improved student outcomes.

● Build strong instructional leadership systems, including coaching, professional learning, and leadership development structures that support continuous growth.

● Foster a cohesive and collaborative leadership culture grounded in shared accountability, clear priorities, and effective decision-making.

● Model and cultivate a healthy adult learning environment that reflects trust, inclusion, and high expectations across teams.

● Collaborate with the Assistant Superintendent team (LEAD) and other district leaders to monitor and coordinate district level themes from differentiated school support plans.

● Collaborate across the LEAD team and district departments to ensure coherence in school support, alignment of differentiated support plans, and implementation of district priorities.

● Navigate and partner with central offices to resolve complex school site issues, including student discipline, personnel, budget, curriculum, and operations.

● Engage families, community partners, and early learning stakeholders to elevate student and family voice in decision-making and strengthen trust across communities.

● Build and maintain strong cross-sector partnerships with city agencies and community-based organizations to support early learning systems and PK–5 alignment.

● Represent the district in public and professional settings, effectively communicating priorities, progress, and challenges to diverse audiences.

The strongest candidates will have:

● Three (3) years of senior-level administrative experience in an academic and early childhood setting, preferably in a public, urban school district central office department

● Three (3) years of professional experience leading PK–5 initiatives, including demonstrated expertise in elementary education and facilitating school and organizational change

● Knowledge of San Francisco’s public schools/urban public schools and a passionate belief in SFUSD’s commitment to instructional leadership as a lever toward delivering on the SFUSD Graduate Profile

● A demonstrated capacity to interrupt systemic barriers to equity and to model equity-centered leadership.

● Well-developed cultural humility, awareness of their own identity, and understanding of internalized, interpersonal, and systemic racism and other forms of oppression

● A strong record of managing organizational change and initiating key innovations

● Strong analytic and systems thinking necessary to interpret data to inform goals and strategy, as well as build infrastructure where none exists

● Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with senior level district staff and colleagues

● Experience and success with effective written and verbal communication, facilitation and presentations to large groups and a variety of audiences (e.g., staff meetings, executive briefings, public board meetings, memos)

● Ability to work effectively in difficult situations that involve confidential and sensitive matters

Minimum Qualifications

● Valid California Administrative Credential

● Five (5) years of experience as a central office and/or site administrator

What We Offer

SFUSD offers a competitive salary of $184,869 - $230,956/annually commensurate with experience in a similar position. We offer a comprehensive benefits plan including dental and vision plans, a defined benefit pension plan, disability, life insurance, flexible spending account options and vacation time. We also offer an inclusive and equity-centered environment where we encourage staff to bring their whole selves to work.

How to Apply

● Visit https://jobs.sfusd.edu/ and create a new account to begin your application.

● You will be prompted to electronically attach a letter of interest, resume, list of professional references

and any applicable credentials or licenses

● Our Human Resources team will then review your entire application to determine your eligibility status

and contact you directly should you move forward in the process

Verification

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 http://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 from this and future job opportunities with the San Francisco Unified School District.

District Nondiscrimination Statement:
San Francisco Unified School District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, sexual harassment and bullying based on actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, reproductive health decision making, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, veteran or military status, or genetic information, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics or any other basis protected by law or regulation, in its educational program(s) or employment.

For more information about the District's non-discrimination policy, please review Board Policy 4030.

Title IX Nondiscrimination Statement and Grievance Procedures:
Any person may report sex discrimination, including sexual harassment (whether or not the person reporting is the person alleged to be the victim of conduct that could constitute sex discrimination or sexual harassment), in person, by mail, by telephone, or by electronic mail, using the contact information listed for the Title IX Coordinator, or by any other means that results in the Title IX Coordinator receiving the person's verbal or written report. Such a report may be made at any time (including during non-business hours) by using the telephone number or electronic mail address, or by mail to the office address, listed for the Title IX Coordinator.

District Title IX Coordinator:

Eva Kellogg
Office of Equity
555 Franklin Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94102
415-355-7334 or equity@sfusd.edu

For more information on the District’s Sexual Harassment policy and grievance procedures, please review Board Policy 4034.

Title IX Nondiscrimination Statement and Grievance Procedures:
Any person may report discrimination on the basis of a physical or mental disability (whether or not the person reporting is the person alleged to be the victim of conduct that could constitute discrimination on the basis of a physical or mental disability), in person, by mail, by telephone, or by electronic mail, using the contact information listed for the Section 504 Coordinator.

District Section 504 Coordinator:

Alicia Rodriguez
1515 Quintara St., San Francisco, CA, 94116
(415) 242-2615 or rodrigueza@sfusd.edu

Assistant Superintendent (0310), Early Education & Elementary Schools: LEAD Team