IT Analytics Director

Job Description

Job Description

**********Applicants must apply directly on the San Francisco Dept. of Public Health careers page, see link below******************

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• Salary: $176,878 - $274,430

The Analytics Director position resides in the DPH Information Technology (IT) Division as a direct report to the Chief Data Officer. The IT Division is a full-service organization of 300 staff that delivers business intelligence and data integration services, network and hosting infrastructure, information security, project and portfolio management, application management, client technology and support, clinical nursing informatics, user experience and change management services, and cloud collaboration services.

Responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Leads the adoption of advanced analytics and data-driven approaches to enhance patient care, operational efficiency, and financial performance.
• Works across DPH to standardize analytic tools, staff training/skill sets and data infrastructures to develop sustainable reporting environments for predictive analytics to identify risks, trends, and opportunities in patient care and resource allocation.
• Champions a data-driven culture across clinical, operational, and administrative functions.
• Develops analytics solutions to monitor and improve patient outcomes, public health initiatives, and enhance population health management.
• Partners with clinical leaders to create dashboards and tools that support evidence-based decision-making.
• Identifies and evaluates innovative solutions to enhance patient engagement, personalized care, and operational efficiencies.
• Oversees the collection, organization, and interpretation of large data sets to identify trends, patterns, and insights.
• Partners with IT to ensure the availability, integrity, and security of data systems and platforms.
• Ensures data accuracy, consistency, and accessibility while maintaining high standards for data privacy and security (e.g., HIPAA compliance).
• Collaborates with IT and data management teams to build and maintain scalable analytics infrastructure, standardizing tools, and user trainings where feasible.
• Creates a unified analytics platform that coordinates the integration of clinical, operational, and financial data from multiple sources.
• Sets strategy for how DPH collects, prepares, analyzes, and utilizes data to support improvement work and the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Participates in DPH Information Governance, either as a member or leading specific subcommittees and projects.
• Coordinates the effort to drive DPH to becoming a more data-driven organization through transparency, training, and collaboration.
• Serves as an entity leader to increase analytical capabilities and optimize the return on data – to get more out of the data than the effort taken to collect it.
• Actively participates with partner organizations and/or city agencies to standardize and implement best practices for master data management.
• Modernizes the DPH data home, including the introduction of cloud-hosted data and analytics capability to existing service offerings.
• Analyzes and manages risks and interdependencies related to business intelligence, data lifecycle management, and information governance within and across service lines in consultation with stakeholders.
• Collaborates on the creation of key performance indicator dashboards for DPH divisions.
• Manages vendor partners and contracts.
• Ensures risks associated with projects are escalated in a timely manner.
• Coordinates with legal, privacy/compliance, information security, clinical operations, and health informatics partners to develop and improve DPH policy and procedures around master data management, data sharing, and data access.
• Manages complex and often competing projects, identifies risks and mitigation strategies to reduce resource contention, impact to goals, schedule, and budget.

The Analytics Director may perform other duties as assigned/required.

How to qualify

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED)

Experience: Five (5) years of experience in healthcare IT, analytics or a related field AND three (3) years of experience with healthcare IT systems (e.g., EHRs like Epic, Cerner, Avatar).

Education: An associate degree or above from an accredited college or university.

Substitution: Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis. One (1) year is equivalent to thirty (30) semester units / forty-five (45) quarter units.

One-year fulltime employment is equivalent to 2,000 hours (2,000 hours of qualifying work experience is based on a 40-hour work week).

Company DescriptionThe Mission of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) is to protect and promote the health of all San Franciscans. SFDPH strives to achieve its mission through the work of two main Divisions – the San Francisco Health Network and Population Health.

The San Francisco Health Network is the City’s only complete system of care and has locations throughout the City, including Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, and over 15 primary care health centers.

With a broad community focus, the ultimate goal of the Population Health Division is to ensure that San Franciscans have optimal health and wellness at every stage of life, and to achieve this, the Division is comprised of various branches dedicated to core public health services for the City and County of San Francisco, such as health protection and promotion, disease and injury prevention, disaster preparedness and response, and environmental health services.

Company Description

The Mission of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) is to protect and promote the health of all San Franciscans. SFDPH strives to achieve its mission through the work of two main Divisions – the San Francisco Health Network and Population Health.\r\n\r\nThe San Francisco Health Network is the City’s only complete system of care and has locations throughout the City, including Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center, and over 15 primary care health centers.\r\n\r\nWith a broad community focus, the ultimate goal of the Population Health Division is to ensure that San Franciscans have optimal health and wellness at every stage of life, and to achieve this, the Division is comprised of various branches dedicated to core public health services for the City and County of San Francisco, such as health protection and promotion, disease and injury prevention, disaster preparedness and response, and environmental health services.