Job Class: 0230 Certificated Executive Director

Salary Range: $150,147 - $197,576/annually

Length of Appointment: July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027

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.

As the Executive Director for LEAD you will drive equity-focused implementation and innovation as part of SFUSD’s instructional leadership team and you will report to the Assistant Superintendent of your assigned division (Early Education, Elementary, Middle, High School). The Executive Director of Principal Leadership and Support provides coaching capacity and will support the implementation of SFUSD’s strategic plan.

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 Executive Director you will:

● Under the leadership of the Assistant Superintendent and in alignment with sites’ School Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA) AND WASC, support school principals with a focus on dramatically improving outcomes for African American students, English Learners, and other underserved student groups, and improving student achievement overall

● In alignment with site leaders’ Leadership Action Plan (LAP), provide site-level coaching to support administrators in achieving their goals

● Provide regular updates and thought partnership to the Assistant Superintendent regarding site leadership efforts

● Lead a cohort of school sites, supervising and actively supporting the leadership development for school leaders assigned to your cohort.

● Provide visible district-level leadership, support, and guidance across all assigned school sites; take part in school community and family engagements; attend instructional leadership team and school site council meetings as appropriate to communicate district priorities.

● 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

● Collaborate with school site leaders 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 cohort leadership team of principals that regularly engages in authentic collaborative learning to improve their own leadership capacity and success

● Using an equity lens, develop and implement a strong talent strategy, including regular one-to-one meetings, to supervise and evaluate the performance of assigned personnel who report directly to the Executive Director

● Strategically build a strong, cohesive, and collaborative team among cohort principals and assistant principals to ensure commitment to and implementation of priorities and to model healthy and productive adult culture

● Promote Instructional Coherence to the Deeper Learning Framework, SFUSD Instructional Rubric and Instructional Guides to increase the achievement of African American/Black, English Language Learners and Students with Individualized Education Plans.

● Support site leaders to design, deliver and monitor progress of adult learning, and schoolwide systems to support professional growth, reflection, and teacher collaboration for continuous improvement

● Support site leaders to monitor site systems & day to day operations including resource management, school culture, and deepening consistency of policy development and implementation

● Work in direct partnership with the College and Career Readiness Team to support academic opportunities for students and shift systems and structures to improve access for students from marginalized communities

● Serve as proxy for the Assistant Superintendent when the Assistant Superintendent is unable to attend a meeting

● Serve on workgroups that range across instructional and operational teams in service of school site support.

● Respond to site based emergencies, when delegated and communicate through district policies and protocols to ensure shared understanding of emergency response

The strongest candidates will have:

● Strategic leadership and management experience in a PK-12 urban public educational setting, particularly high school and/or college and career readiness related experience

● 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 Vision Value Goals and Guardrails

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

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

● A proven record of effectively planning, organizing and using resources to take action and achieve goals

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

● A track record of effective collaboration across departmental and organizational boundaries

● A strong customer service mindset

● Success leading effective teams and individuals

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

Minimum Qualifications

● Possession of a valid California Administrative credential or eligibility for a California Administrative Credential

● Five (5) years of experience as a site administrator or three (3) years of experience supervising site leaders

What We Offer

SFUSD offers a competitive salary of $150,147 - $197,576/annually commensurate with experience in a similar position. This position is a one-year contract which may be renewed on an annual basis. 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

Certificated Executive Director, High School (0230): Leadership, Equity, Achievement & Design (LEAD)