Job Class: 0993 Director

Salary Range: $148,215 - $198,901/annually

Appointment Type: Permanent Exempt (what does this mean?)

Length of Appointment: PEX not to exceed three (3) years. This position is excluded by the Charter from competitive Civil Service examination process and shall serve at the discretion of the appointing officer.

Calendar: Full Time / Full Year

The Director of Transportation leads the District's student transportation program to ensure safe, reliable, equitable, and cost-effective transportation services for all SFUSD students, including general education, special education, and extracurricular programming.

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 Director of Transportation, you will:
• Provide leadership and overall management of the District's transportation services and operations
• Develop and implement transportation policies, procedures, and long-range service plans
• Oversee routing, scheduling, vendor performance, safety monitoring, and service delivery
• Supervise professional, technical, and administrative transportation staff
• Manage transportation vendor contracts and service agreements
• Oversee preparation and management of the Transportation Department budget
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local transportation and safety laws
• Serve as the primary liaison with city, county, and state agencies
• Prepare Board of Education reports and agenda items
• Lead emergency response and continuity planning for transportation services
• Perform other related duties as assigned

The strongest candidates will have:
• A proven record of effectively planning, organizing and using resources to take action and achieve goals
• Success leading effective teams and individual
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with District staff and colleagues
• Knowledge of facilities management best practices in a public school district sector setting
• A proven record of managing organizational change and initiating key innovations
• Strong systems thinking necessary to interpret data to inform goals and strategy, as well as develop new systems and processes
• Ability to work effectively across multiple functions and roles within a complex organizations
• 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)
• Experience working with operations management (work order) software
• Ability to work effectively in difficult situations that involve confidential and sensitive matters

Minimum Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree (B.A. / B.S) from an accredited college or university in public administration, transportation management, business administration, or a closely related field
• Four (4) years of professional-level experience in transportation management or a related field that covers fleet logistics, route optimization software, regulatory compliance, carrier negotiations, and budget administration
• Strategic leadership and management experience; in a K-12 public educational setting preferred

Substitution

Education requirements may be substituted for additional professional-level experience on a year for-year basis.

What We Offer

SFUSD offers a competitive salary of $148,215 - $198,901/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
• Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from SFUSD and CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept SFUSD and CCSF mail from the following addresses ([redacted].edu, [redacted].org, [redacted].org, [redacted].com, [redacted].com, [redacted].org, [redacted].org, [redacted].org, [redacted].com, [redacted].org, [redacted].org, [redacted].org, [redacted].org, [redacted].edu, [redacted].info, and [redacted].com).

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.