Assistant Director: Health Promotion and Wellness Services

The Assistant Director, Health Promotion & Wellness Services serves as a member of the Leadership Team within Health Promotion and Wellness Services (HPWS) at University Health Services with a focus on sexual wellbeing and violence prevention. This role is responsible for upholding the University’s commitment to providing comprehensive, evidence-based, culturally competent, and trauma-informed sexual violence prevention education initiatives, oversight of comprehensive safer sex campaigns, and innovation of programs designed to increase students’ skills in building and enhancing healthy relationships.

The Assistant Director (AD) will provide primary supervision of the staff within sexual wellbeing, sexual violence prevention education, and social/relational wellbeing initiatives within HPWS.

The Assistant Director is expected to support the Director of Health Promotion and Wellness Services in supervision, evaluation, and creative innovation of programmatic offerings. This role is expected to gather reports and share findings from activities related to the prevention of sexual violence, dating violence, and stalking by University of Oregon students, as required by local and federal mandates. This role may also assist in the management of grant funds and programming distribution of safer sex supplies, STI screening clinics, and other initiatives supporting sexual and relational health.

The AD will be supporting the work of student leaders in sexual violence prevention education on campus, working closely with student employees, interns, and other stakeholders- requiring strong skills in organization, leadership, coalition building, collaboration, mentorship and shared governance. This role works closely with campus colleagues including the Confidential Advocacy Program, Community & Belonging, Orientation & Family Programs, Office of the Dean of Students, University Athletics, Title IX, and other campus partners engaged in health promotion work.

The goal of the AD's work is to ignite campus dialogue by offering educational programs that are designed to reduce unwanted sexual experiences and to create / enhance healthy relationships through an intersectional, culturally relevant framework.

This position reports to the Director of Health Promotion & Wellness Services and supervises the Program Coordinator for Sexual Violence Prevention Education, the Sexual Wellbeing Specialist, and any additional staffing within Health Promotion and Wellbeing Services.

This position requires successful completion of a criminal background check and routine screening of Medicaid and Medicare Exclusion Lists. Employee loses eligibility for employment if on the List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) and/or System of Award Management (SAM). In addition, employee must be in compliance with UHS policies regarding tuberculosis screening, measles and mumps (MMR), seasonal flu, hepatitis B, and other immunization requirements.

• Master’s degree in counseling, social work, public health, prevention science, family and human services, college student personnel, student affairs administration, or related field.
• Two years of direct professional experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating programs to promote health and/or prevent violence in individuals and communities.

• Strong, effective communication skills, including excellent listening skills.
• Interpersonal skills to engage effectively with people from diverse social, cultural, racial, gender identity and expression, economic and educational backgrounds.
• Strong facilitation skills to motivate and encourage others towards environmental and behavioral change utilizing best practices.
• Ability to build and sustain successful coalitions and committees that focus on sexual violence prevention efforts.
• Experience with and/or commitment to working effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds, in support of an inclusive and welcoming environment.

• Direct professional experience in sexual violence prevention and/or sexual health programming within an institution of higher education.
• Experience with critical review of professional literature related to sexual violence prevention and sexual health promotion - especially among college-aged populations.
• Experience in campus, community, or public health research in program planning and evaluation.
• Organizational and time management skills, including setting priorities, achieving program and department goals, and performing multiple work assignments simultaneously with acute attention to detail.
• Strong acumen for collaboration and community building, with the agility to establish and maintain strong working relationships with individuals and units across the university and community.
• Experience developing and implementing environmental and policy change activities, grant writing and/or executing grant-funded initiatives.
• Experience providing direct services to support…