Health Educator, Wellbeing Initiatives; Limited Term

Health Educator, Wellbeing Initiatives (Limited Term)
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The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

Health Educator, Wellbeing Initiatives (Limited Term)

Coordinator B

Reporting to the Associate Director, Health Education, the Health Educator will develop, implement, and maintain a variety of population-specific, theory-based health promotion and education initiatives that are responsive to current trends in higher education and evolving student needs. The Health Educator will collaborate with key stakeholders across campus to develop opportunities in support of our mission to infuse wellness throughout the Penn experience through inclusive, innovative, and impactful initiatives.

This will be accomplished through planning, coordinating, implementing, and assessing students'' physical and emotional health, academic success, and personal growth. Penn''s eight domains of wellness include:
Physical, emotional, social, spiritual, intellectual, occupation, environmental, and financial wellness. The Health Educator will embrace our core values of compassion, accessibility, respect and empowerment (CARE) throughout their work.

Please note this is a limited term position through May 31, 2027.

Job Responsibilities

• Support all Wellness activities related to health promotion, outreach, prevention and intervention efforts, needs assessment, program development, program implementation, , program evaluation, student orientation activities, and orienting student workers to education and outreach facilitation processes. This includes but is not limited to:
• Facilitating existing, student-focused Wellbeing programs for groups and individuals across the Penn community
• Supporting the planning, coordination, and facilitation of events and activities for incoming students and New Student Orientation (NSO)
• Managing logistics for events and programs
• Managing evaluation of Wellbeing programs, including survey design and distribution, focus group design and facilitation, and data analysis.
• Contributing to monthly metrics, program evaluations, and annual reports
• Meeting with stakeholders across campus to create opportunities to integrate health and wellness programming for specific student populations
• Supporting health communication efforts (e.g. print, social media, website content)
• Orienting student workers to education and outreach facilitation and processes.

- Collaborate with students, campus stakeholders, and the Associate Director, Health Education, students, and campus stakeholders to lead the design and implementation of initiatives that align with Wellness at Penn strategic priorities and address emerging trends in higher education.

- Support efforts to strengthen outreach and education capacity by streamlining systems and processes, including refining systems for outreach request management and metric tracking, and developing and maintaining standard operating procedures for outreach facilitation, Wellness Vending Machine operations, supply inventory, and related functions.

- Support department research activities, present at local and national conferences, and/or identify grant opportunities related to health and wellness initiatives and promoting health and wellbeing among college students.

- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• BA/BS or 2 to 3 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, are required, Master''s degree in education, public health or related field preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work with highly diverse audiences, including students, faculty members, staff, and university…