Assistant Director for Mental Health Promotion

About the role

The Assistant Director for Mental Health Promotion & Education is charged with enhancing, promoting, and developing resources, skills, programs, and opportunities related to mental health and emotional well-being for all Miami (Oxford) students.

This position reports to the Director for Student Wellness and will work collaboratively with the Assistant Director for Sexual Assault Prevention, the Assistant Director for Harm Reduction, and the Assistant Director for Peer Education and Engagement within the Office of Student Wellness (OSW).

Responsibilities

• Create, implement, and assess comprehensive, evidence-based educational programming on mental health education that has a high likelihood of achieving measurable improvements in health behaviors and/or student success.
• Increase student awareness and knowledge of behaviors, skills, and opportunities to inspire their emotional development and ability/willingness to effectively care for themselves and others.
• Cultivate a campus environment focused on the reduction of stigma around mental health and help-seeking behaviors.
• In partnership with OSW and Student Counseling Service (SCS) staff, coordinate the peer delivery of Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) suicide prevention training events.
• Advise and/or consult with student organizations related to mental health (e.g. MiamiHope, Active Minds, etc.).
• Strategically collaborate with departments across campus, especially faculty, SCS, Student Health Services, the Dean of Students Office, Miller Center for Student Disability Services, and Residence Life.
• Utilize findings from institutional surveys to improve programming and target education toward topics that are most relevant for Miami students.
• Oversee assessment efforts pertaining to mental health programming and prevention efforts. This includes developing a methodology for establishing baseline data and trends in student mental health, and using this data as part of evaluating programmatic success.
• This also includes establishing timelines for assessment, defining measurable objectives, creating data collection instruments (qualitative and quantitative), and synthesizing data into reports.
• Coverage of mental health promotion programs ranging in size from small group workshops to large campus-wide events. Examples include: suicide prevention, stress management, stigma reduction, help-seeking, body positivity, campus-wide forums, large-scale trainings, mental health screening days, etc.
• Serve on and/or chair office, divisional, or institutional committees, especially those pertaining to mental health and emotional wellness (e.g., suicide prevention team).
• Manage programming budget specific to mental health education and prevention.
• Occasional nights and weekends, as needed.
• Participate as a full team member of OSW, contributing to shared initiatives, and supporting all members of the team to celebrate shared success.
• Demonstrate university citizenship through service that supports office, divisional, and institutional priorities (eg. teaching Student Life supported transition courses, committee membership, event attendance).
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of OSW.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in health education, public health, social work, counseling, or a related field and at least two (2) years of experience with health promotion and prevention programming; OR a Masters Degree in health education, public health, social work, counseling, or a related field and at least one (1) year of experience with health promotion and prevention programming.
• Mental health licensure is not required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience working with a traditional college age population for 1 or more years.
• Experience working with a peer education delivery model.
• Demonstrated experience with program assessment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, and evaluate educational programming both independently and through collaboration across departments.