Director of Environmental Health (San Francisco) Job at San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA

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  • San Francisco Department of Public Health
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Overview

The Director of Environmental Health (0941 Manager VI) oversees and directs all activities of the City and County of San Franciscos Environmental Health Branch (EHB). This position reports to the Deputy Director for Public Health Services, Population Health Division and works in close collaboration with the County Health Officer/Director of Population Health Division. The Director provides effective leadership for the branch by developing a shared vision, purpose, values, and strategy with managers and staff. The Director positively engages, empowers, and inspires branch team members to pursue and achieve strategic goals and objectives.

The Director of Environmental Health (0941 Manager VI) performs the following essential job functions:

  • Develops policies and procedures for all Environmental Health Programs; leads SFDPHs environmental health strategy to ensure health protection
  • Directs the operations and staff of all the environmental health regulatory programs for SFDPH including Food Safety, Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste, Healthy Housing, Solid Waste, Water Quality, Local Oversight Program and Site Mitigation for contaminated sites, Massage Parlors, Body Art, Tobacco Sales, Medical Cannabis Dispensaries, and the Air, Noise, and Radiation Program. The Director also supervises the County Agricultural Commissioner, Weights and Measures, Childrens Environmental Health Promotion, Food Systems Programs, and the Program for Health, Equity and Sustainability (PHES)
  • Supervises Environmental Health managers and staff engaged in Operations (budget, payments, purchases, and building), Information Technology, and Disaster Planning; addresses personnel and union related issues
  • Ensures continuous quality improvement, and performance and service excellence at all levels of the branch; reviews and approves training
  • Determines and ensures proper staffing levels for each program within the branch
  • Oversees high-quality environmental health assessments, health impact assessments, and data/knowledge management, synthesis, and translation to guide and inform environmental health protection efforts, policy development, and regulatory and enforcement actions
  • Participates in budget development; reviews and approves the branch budget, expenditures
  • Ensures that Environmental Health fees are set to pay for the costs of each program, and that all fees are collected and deposited using the proper codes
  • Oversees EHBs expenditure and revenue budgets of approximately $26,000,000 annually, with approximately 150 staff employees and additional contracted staff
  • Works with SFDPH Office of Policy and Planning, the Board of Supervisors, and the City Attorneys Office to draft and pass city legislation that involves environmental health issues; participates in California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health meetings and conference calls
  • Updates the Director of Health and the Health Officer of urgent environmental health concerns with potential city-wide impacts
  • Partners with community organizations, private citizens, private industry, environmental justice advocates, and other city departments on environmental health matters
  • Interacts extensively with numerous and diverse stakeholders on controversial, high stakes, and emotionally charged environmental and human health issues that require having extensive experience in conflict resolution, negotiation, change management, and ethical leadership.

The Director of Environmental Health (0941 Manager VI) may perform other duties as assigned/required.

Qualifications

Required Minimum Qualifications

  • License/Certification : Registered Environmental Health Specialist (REHS) certificate issued by California Department of Public Health, AND
  • Experience : Five (5) years of verifiable management experience supervising employees performing food, housing, general sanitation, or other related inspection work. Experience must also include three (3) years working in an environmental health agency*.

Experience Substitution: Possession of a Masters degree in Public Health, Health Science, Public Administration, or a related field from an accredited college or university may substitute for one (1) year of the required experience working in an environmental health agency.

Details

  • Seniority level : Director
  • Employment type : Full-time
  • Job function : Science
  • Industries : Hospitals and Health Care
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Job Tags

Full time, Work at office, Local area,

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