Health Promotions Coordinator, ETTH Grant; SY

Job Description

REPORTS TO:

Wellness Council Support Manager

ACADEMIC/NON-ACADEMIC:
Non-academic

The Office of Health and Wellness (OHW), leads the district's efforts to address health inequities that interfere with academic success by increasing the quantity and improving the quality of health education, physical education, physical activity, and social-emotional learning in schools, improving staff wellness, and creating a healthier school environment in which the healthy choice is the easy choice.

In a district-wide, strategic effort to address health inequities that interfere with academic success, the Boston Public Schools (BPS) Office of Health and Wellness (OHW) receives funding from the Center for Disease Control for the Empowering Teens Through Health (ETTH) Grant. The ETTH grant aims to improve the behaviors and experiences of middle and high school students and reduce disparities in sexual risk behavior, substance use, experience of violence, poor mental health, and suicidality by supporting schools to deliver high-quality health education, increase access to needed health services, including behavioral and mental health services, create safe and supportive school environments.

The Health Promotions Coordinator for the ETTH Grant resides in the Office of Health and Wellness within the Academic division of the Boston Public Schools, reporting to the Wellness Council Support Manager. The Health Promotions Coordinator is responsible for supporting and overseeing project activities to advance the mission of the grant and the priorities of OHW. The position will coordinate the development of materials, services, training opportunities, and meetings.

The Health Promotions Coordinator will liaise with other departments and agencies to share support and resources with schools. Finally, the Health Promotions Coordinator will work closely with the Survey Grant Coordinator to oversee other grant tasks including grant programmatic reporting and facilitating meetings across BPS departments and community partners.

• Plan, develop/adapt, and disseminate health campaigns and communications for grant project areas (e.g. campaigns for Condom Accessibility Teams, sexual health, mental health, substance misuse, and others aligned with the grant strategies) that can be implemented in schools across the district.
• Maintain an e-library of resources related to health and wellness that school staff can access
• Adapt, develop, and promote materials that increase awareness of internal and external health and wellness resources for students, families, and school staff

• Coordinate professional development and provide technical assistance to school-based staff related to access to youth-friendly in-school and community health resources and services.
• Ensure school staff have access to supplies and resources to successfully implement grant activities along with guidance and information on how to promote campaign effectively at the individual school level
• Assist the Data & Evaluation Manager in collecting Health Services grant reporting data

• Coordinate and facilitate the ETTH Youth Advisory Board and support the development of student-led health campaigns for the district
• Support the development of materials for student and family engagement across the grant project areas
• Develop and update materials and templates that schools can use when engaging with families about grant project areas

• Coordinate meetings with the Health Education, Health Services, and Safe and Supportive Environment grant leads and partners to discuss and plan health promotion-related…