Healthy Academic Environments Program Manager

University Health Services is seeking a Healthy Academic Environments Program Manager a new role dedicated to supporting the UW-Madison teaching community. This position is situated within the Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Team at UHS and will work closely with the Division of Teaching and Learning to create conditions that support student mental health. The Healthy Academic Environments Program Manager will engage UW-Madisons teaching and learning community and academic partners in order to integrate prevention focused strategies across academic environments.

This role will provide support and build capacity by:

• Delivering evaluating and improving prevention and mental health promotion training and resources tailored for members of the campus teaching community (faculty instructors teaching assistants etc.)

• Cultivating interest among campus academic units in health-promoting policies systems and environments

• Interpreting and sharing population-level student health data with academic partners

• Maintaining expertise on evidence-based strategies for promoting student health in academic environments and developing supporting materials to guide stakeholder action to improve policies systems and environments

• Collaborating with teaching and learning community partners to identify opportunities to enhance academic environments

• Supporting teaching and learning communities in deploying and evaluating health promotion strategies tailored for an academic environment

• Representing UHS in teaching and learning improvement efforts to support appropriate integration of health and well-being strategies and messages

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

• Developing and maintaining a liaison relationship with the Division of Teaching & Learning and Center for Teaching Learning & Mentoring

• May supervise student employees and/or graduate assistants

This position reports to the Assistant Director for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention.

Typical remote work arrangements require on-site work at our Madison WI campus at least 60% with a schedule determined by supervisors assistant directors and/or the director. Remote work privileges can be granted by the director or assistant directors and approval is dependent on operational need which may require in-person or on-site staff presence. All staff consistently working remotely must meet campus requirements for remote work and have required documentation in place. (Policy UW-5087)

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

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

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

• Serve as a liaison to the Division of Teaching & Learning in order to build referral pathways and communication channels with academic-facing staff.

• 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

University Health Services Campus Health Initiatives & Prevention

University Health Services (UHS) is the student health center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We are dedicated to promoting protecting and improving student health and wellbeing. UHS supports student health through both clinical care and by advancing upstream prevention and campus health initiatives.

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.

Division of Teaching and Learning is a collective of 10 units focused on ensuring every UW-Madison student finds inclusive learning environments that make possible the personal and intellectual growth promised in the Wisconsin Experience. We aim to do our work in a spirit of service to our students and in partnership with colleagues in schools colleges departments and programs across campus.

The starting salary for the position is $75000 and is negotiable based on experience and qualifications.

An employee in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation holidays and sick leave; competitive insurance and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Information can be found at Qualifications:

• Experience delivering training or educational programs to adult learners

• Demonstrated knowledge of population-level prevention strategies and evidencebased frameworks.

• Experience designing and facilitating training on topics that support students mental health.

• Subject matter expertise in any of the following areas: mental health population health approaches teaching and pedagogical principles

• Experience interpreting and communicating data to non-technical audiences including the ability to translate health data into actionable insights.

• Experience working in a higher education setting with (or as) faculty instructors teaching assistants or professional staff

• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships with diverse stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams.

• Strong communication skills able to produce accurate well-organized and audience-appropriate written materials.

• Effective organizational skills and attention to detail.

Bachelors degree required

Masters or PhD preferred

A broad range of relevant areas of specialization will be considered including public health education health sciences social work psychology counseling teaching and learning and other related fields.

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The following is required for your application to be considered complete:

• Cover letter describing how your experience relates to the listed required and preferred job qualifications

• Resume detailing your educational and professional background

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This position is a twoyear fixedterm appointment with the possibility of renewal contingent upon funding availability.

Successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States a lawful permanent resident a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

UW-Madison is not an E-Verify employer and therefore is not eligible to employ F1 STEM OPT Extension participants.

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