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Job Category: Academic Staff
Employment Type: Regular
Job Profile: Population Health Specialist
Job Summary:
UHS Preventionis recruitinga Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Specialist to join our team. This position will work closely with registered student organizations, student leaders, and campus partners to advance mental health promotion and prevention strategies across UW-Madison. This role will provide support and build capacity by:

• Delivering, evaluating, and improving suicide prevention and mental health promotion training and resources for students and staff at UW-Madison

• Advising, supporting, and mentoring registered student organizations with missions and work related to mental health and suicide prevention

• Cultivating interest among registered student organizations inadoptinghealth-promoting policies, systems, and environments

• Maintainingexpertiseon evidence-based strategies for peer support, peer education, student advocacy, student engagement, and student development

• Collaborating with campus partners to deploy and evaluate health promotion strategies and programs for students

• Coordinating and aligning with UHS prevention, data, and communications teams

• May supervise student employees

This position reports to the Assistant Director for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention.
Schedule:
This hybrid position requires a minimum of 60% on-site work at the University of Madison campus.
This position may requireworkingoccasional evening and weekend hours during the academic year to support student programs, student organizations and campus initiatives.
Key Job Responsibilities:

• Advise registered student organizations and support UHS prevention dual registration program

• Gathers and evaluates population-level health data and engages with stakeholders to discern needs and interests and build capacity for population-level health improvement

• Applies evidence-based theories, frameworks, and assessments according to current health research and practice

• Develops, implements, organizes, and evaluates population-health initiatives based on sound data, theory, and evidence

• Provides consultation, training, and capacity-building resources for stakeholders to advance a health-promoting setting with respect to policies, learning and working environments, physical spaces, services and support, student development, and/or opportunities for social connectedness

Department:
University Health Services, Prevention & Campus Health Initiatives
At UHS our mission is to promote, protect, and improve student health and wellbeing. UHS employees are dedicated to providing high-quality medical, mental health, prevention and wellness services for UW-Madison students. These efforts contribute to students learning, leading and thriving in a healthy community. Learn more about us at uhs.wisc.edu
UHS Prevention works to build the capacity of our campus community to support and advance population-level health promotion and prevention strategies. We collaborate with partners to enhance data-informed policies, systems, environments and programs at UW-Madison. Our focus areas include suicide prevention and mental health promotion, sexual and relationship violence prevention, alcohol and other drug prevention. This role is within the Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Team.
Compensation:
The minimum salary for this position is $63,000, with final salary based on experience and qualifications.
This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund. Information can be found at https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/
UW is a qualified employer for thePublic Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)and Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF) programs.
Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of one year of professional experience advising, mentoring, coaching or supervising students in higher education or related educational setting
• Experience delivering presentations and/or facilitating groups
• Professional, academic, or volunteer experience that includes any of the following subject areas: mental health, suicide prevention, population health, public health, student development, and/or peer support.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience applying population-level prevention strategies and evidence-based frameworks.
• Experience working in a higher education setting, navigating campus policies,structures, and operations
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with program planning and evaluation
• Strong written and verbal communicationskills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree, required
• Master's degree, preferred

Degree in public health, education, health sciences, social work, psychology, counseling,teachingand learning, or a related field.
How to Apply:
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• Cover Letter
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Contact Information:
Diante Felton, dtfelton@wisc.edu608-265-5359
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Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
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