Senior Performance Analyst

The Controller is the City’s chief financial officer. Our team includes financial, technology, analytical and other professionals who work hard to secure the City’s financial integrity and promote efficient, effective and accountable government. We hold ourselves to high standards and strive to be a model for good government. We value the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and lived experiences of our teams and clients in everything we do. We work in a collaborative and inclusive environment, promote equal opportunity, and invest in the professional development and wellbeing of our team members. You can expect to work alongside colleagues who are committed to serving the public with integrity and want to see positive impacts from their work. We are looking for smart, motivated individuals who want to make a difference and use government to play a role in solving our City’s problems, including working with departments to address long-standing and harmful disparities in our communities. For a career with purpose and professional growth, join us in the Controller’s Office.

Appointment Type: Temporary Provisional. This is not a permanent appointment. A provisional appointee must participate and be successful in a Civil Service examination for this classification and be selected through an open competitive process in order to be considered for permanent appointment. Provisional appointments may not exceed three (3) years. Provisional appointees serve at the discretion of the appointing officer.

Within the Controller’s Office, City Performance is made up of 38 individuals committed to public service. Our team members come from different professional backgrounds, bringing a variety of skill sets, policy area expertise, and interests to work collaboratively to improve local government.

We work directly with City departments across a range of subject areas, including transportation, public health, human services, homelessness, capital planning, public safety and government operations.

Our work with City departments includes a mix of data analysis and visualization, facilitation and inter-departmental collaboration, project management, process improvement, performance measurement and management, and contracting.

View our fiscal year 2021-22 workplan and our published reports to learn more.

Under general supervision of a Project Manager, Senior Performance Analysts work with peers, junior analysts and departmental partners across our unit’s broad portfolio of analysis, implementation and performance management projects to improve public services in San Francisco.

Since analysts work on a variety of projects, every day is different. You'll balance three to four projects at a time that might all focus on a key issue area like transportation or homelessness, or you may work on a variety of the most pressing City issues. Your tasks will have a similar variety. You'll plan and assist in facilitating in-person and virtual meetings, spend time working independently on data analysis or writing, or collaborate with a team of analysts and managers on process mapping.

All positions are in the Controller's Office only.

City Performance has a hybrid/remote weekly schedule. Staff work 3 days per week in person at our offices in City Hall and may work 2 days per week remote.

We expect this provisional recruitment to result in offers of employment as early as April 2023.

Applications are due: Continuous, with first review of applicants beginning March 6, 2023

Training: Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in business or public administration, accounting, finance, statistics, the social sciences, English, or a related field.

Experience: Two (2) years of experience performing complex policy analysis, project management, public administration, or consulting; functional understanding of local government operations.

Substitution: A master's degree in business or public administration, accounting, finance, statistics, or a related field may be substituted for one (1) year of the required experience.

The selection process will include evaluation of applications in relation to minimum requirements. Candidates whose qualifications most closely meet the needs of the Department will move forward in the recruitment process.