Jobs at MOHCD

The Deputy Director’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as a member of MOHCD’s Senior Leadership Team, providing executive leadership on agency priorities, strategic initiatives, and organizational management.
• Provide executive leadership and strategic direction for the 25-person Portfolio Management Division, ensuring alignment with MOHCD’s mission, priorities, and affordable housing objectives.
• Supervise Director-level managers responsible for major programs and ensure effective coordination across all functional areas.
• Establish division-wide goals, performance expectations, and operational priorities and efficiencies while fostering collaboration across all Portfolio Management functions.
• Develop and implement equitable policies that strengthen long-term stewardship of the City’s affordable housing portfolio and improve organizational effectiveness while balancing the needs of the communities living in affordable housing.
• Expand, standardize, and improve communication regarding City sponsored affordable housing operations, regulations and requirements among project sponsors, tenants and owners.
• Oversee the long-term financial and physical performance of the City’s publicly assisted affordable housing portfolio and direct strategies that preserve affordability, protect public investment, and promote high-quality housing.
• Provide executive oversight of affordable housing occupancy, marketing, lease-up, resident placement, housing lotteries, housing preference implementation, and DAHLIA operations to ensure equitable, transparent, and efficient administration of City affordable housing programs.
• Direct policies governing inclusionary policy implementation, asset management, regulatory compliance, occupancy administration, resident selection, and portfolio preservation.
• Oversee multifamily portfolio-related financing, recapitalization, rehabilitation planning, reserve management, and other long-term preservation initiatives.
• Coordinate with affordable housing and private developers, property management companies, lenders, realtors, investors, regulatory agencies, community-based organizations, and other City departments to advance transparent affordable housing policy and operational excellence.
• Represent MOHCD before the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, City commissions, community organizations, industry partners, and the public on portfolio performance, housing placements and operations, and inclusionary policy, as necessary.
• Identify emerging operational, financial, legislative, and regulatory issues affecting the City’s affordable housing portfolio and its residents and recommend strategic policy and management solutions.
• Promote innovation, accountability, equity, and continuous improvement across all Portfolio Management programs and operations.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

See details and apply by Tuesday, September 29, 2026 – 11:59pm.

The Deputy Director’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Serve as a member of MOHCD’s Senior Leadership Team, providing executive leadership on agency priorities, strategic initiatives, and organizational management.
• Provide executive leadership for the City’s multifamily housing production, acquisition, preservation, housing finance, and homeownership programs.
• Establish strategic direction and organizational priorities for the Division.
• Supervise Director-level managers responsible for major housing program operations and ensure effective coordination across all functional areas.
• Manage MOHCD’s affordable housing pipeline by coordinating multifamily pipeline budget review meetings, maintaining up to date the multifamily budget projections, and overseeing the strategic allocation of local, state, and federal funding resources supporting affordable homeownership and multifamily housing production and preservation.
• Develop and implement policies, funding strategies, and innovative financing approaches that expand affordable housing production, preservation, and homeownership opportunities.
• Oversee the review and approval process for new construction, acquisition, preservation, housing finance, and homeownership funding recommendations, ensuring timely executive review and successful approval by the Citywide Loan Committee and Board of Supervisors.
• Serve as MOHCD’s executive lead for joint development agreements and coordinate affordable housing planning efforts with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure and other City agencies.
• Foster strategic partnerships with City departments, elected officials, affordable housing developers, lenders, realtors, nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, and regional, state, and federal partners to advance the City’s housing goals.
• Recommend and implement policies, procedures, and strategic initiatives that improve organizational performance, operational effectiveness, and equitable access to affordable housing and homeownership opportunities.
• Oversee division budgets, contracts, funding allocations, and administrative resources to ensure responsible stewardship of public funds.
• Represent MOHCD before the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, City commissions, community organizations, industry partners, and the public on affordable housing policy, financing, and homeownership initiatives, as necessary.
• Identify emerging housing needs and recommend innovative financing strategies, public-private partnerships, and policy solutions that advance the City’s affordable housing and homeownership objectives.
• Champion equity, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across all Multifamily Housing and Homeownership Programs.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

See details and apply by Tuesday, September 29, 2026 – 11:59pm.

Position summary

The Director of Housing Finance (the “Director”) will lead the development and implementation of the MOHCD Housing Division’s multifamily financing programs, underwriting guidelines, and state and federal funding strategy and will work closely with the Director of Homeownership to identify homeownership financing opportunities. Reporting to the Deputy Director for Multifamily Housing and Homeownership Programs, the Director will collaborate closely with the senior management team, other MOHCD managers and external partners.

The Director is a new senior position responsible for coordinating MOHCD’s major financing functions and multifamily underwriting governing debt issuance, loan structuring, loan terms, and capital markets. The Director provides subject matter expertise, innovation, coordination, collaboration, policy development, and support to evaluate opportunities and contribute to the Housing Division’s impact.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee funding procurements in alignment with the City’s available resources, funding goals and underwriting guidelines. Issue NOFAs, RFQs and RFP, administer competitive vetting process, make funding awards.
• Update and maintain funding guidelines and policies for the department
  • Lead collaborative process with staff and external stakeholders to update guiding policies on a regular cadence:
    • Multifamily Underwriting Guidelines
    • Developer Fee Policy
    • Bond Program Manual
    • Operating Fees Policy
    • Ground Lease Policy
    • 9% queue
    • Residual Receipts Policy
    • Commercial Space Policy
    • Cash Out Policy and Waivers
    • Multifamily Subordination Policy
    • LOSP Program Manual
• Oversee funding programs
  • Manage MOHCD funding programs and policies, debt issuance, lending products, and financing structures.
  • Collaborate interdepartmentally and externally to identify and execute on funding opportunities that will increase MOHCD’s access to capital.
  • Develop and deploy new funding programs as appropriate
  • Lead analysis and advocacy around state and federal funding programs with the goal of maximizing affordable housing and homeownership resources for San Francisco. Programs may include TCAC (tax credits), CDLAC (tax exempt bonds), California Department of Housing and Community Development (soft debt programs), CalHFA (bonds and soft debt, CalHome). Tasks include:
    • Review updates to guidelines, gather input, submit comments
    • Attend and monitor hearings, meetings and other discussions
    • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including affordable housing developers, advocacy groups, and local governments statewide
  • Manage San Francisco’s applications for State and Federal housing-related funding programs in collaboration with the division’s program directors, developer partners and sister agencies
    • State programs: PLHA, LHTF, Pro Housing Designation, CalHome
    • Federal programs: HUD Pro Housing, Restore Rebuild, others
• Bond Program management
  • Lead all Multifamily bond issuances, including volume cap private activity bonds
    • Create applications in portal
    • Review all applications with FA and provide technical assistance
    • Draft, review and submit for signature all bond attachments and inducements
    • Submit annual Demand survey
    • Conduct all TEFRA hearings
    • Review bond documents and work with bond counsel on closings
    • Update Bond Program Manual as needed
  • Reporting and Monitoring
    • Manage required reporting in cooperation with Portfolio Management
    • Complete mandatory reporting (e.g. California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission (CDIAC); state Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR))
    • IRS reporting and audits
    • Make process improvements and improve record keeping
    • Develop and improve bond monitoring strategy with Asset Management Team
  • Financial Advisor and Bond Counsel procurement
  • Track Bond Recycling and maintain ongoing relationship with CalHFA
  • Train Project Managers on the bond process and how to determine competitiveness of a particular project; collaborate on Loan Eval assessment
• PASS program management
  • Lead; track issuances and funds deployed
  • Liaison with OPF and CGOBOC and Capital Planning
  • Manage final issuance
  • Third-party loan administrator performance and tracking
• Provide technical assistance and support to internal and external stakeholders:
  • Participate in Credit Committee, Loan Committee, and Peer Review as appropriate
  • Lead Debt and Equity RFP review for the team; review Limited Partnership Agreements (LPAs)
  • Hold Housing Finance Office Hours as appropriate
  • Increase partner agency capacity, especially BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving organizations
• Other responsibilities
  • Cultivate a positive and inclusive work environment and develop tools to measure outcomes with respect to organizational goals.
  • Maintain a strong working knowledge of MOHCD, affordable housing finance programs, homeownership programs, economic trends, industry best practices and policies.
  • Represent MOHCD before interagency committees, City boards and commissions, other organizations, and key stakeholders.

See details and apply by Friday, September 18, 2026 – 11:59pm.