Assistant Director for Mental Health Promotion at Miami University

Salary range: $50,000 – $55,000, commensurate with education and experience. Full-time, benefits-eligible position.

About the Role

The Assistant Director for Mental Health Promotion & Education enhances, promotes, and develops 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 collaborates 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).

Education topics include emotional wellness skill building, anxiety, depression, suicide prevention, disordered eating behaviors, self-care, stress management, distress tolerance, resiliency, developing a growth mindset, and other emerging needs. All education is research-based and tailored to college students.

The ideal candidate will have depth of knowledge regarding college student health and mental health behaviors and trends, understand and implement best practices in public health, mental health promotion, and health communications, and have a proven track record of developing and evaluating programs and initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Create, implement, and assess comprehensive, evidence-based educational programming on mental health that achieves measurable improvements in health behaviors and/or student success, grounded in Miami’s Stepped Care Model.
• Increase student awareness and knowledge of behaviors, skills, and opportunities to inspire emotional development and self-care.
• Cultivate a campus environment focused on reducing stigma around mental health and help-seeking behaviors.
• Coordinate the peer delivery of Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) suicide prevention training events in partnership with OSW and Student Counseling Service (SCS) staff.
• Advise and/or consult with student organizations related to mental health (e.g., MiamiHope, Active Minds).
• Strategically collaborate with departments across campus, including 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 most relevant for Miami students.
• Oversee assessment efforts for mental health programming, including establishing baseline data, defining measurable objectives, creating data collection instruments, and synthesizing data into reports.
• Coordinate and implement mental health promotion programs ranging from small group workshops to large campus-wide events (e.g., suicide prevention, stress management, stigma reduction, help-seeking, body positivity, campus-wide forums, large-scale trainings, mental health screening days).
• 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 the programming budget specific to mental health education and prevention.
• Work occasional nights and weekends as needed.
• Participate as a full team member of OSW, contributing to shared initiatives and supporting team success.
• Demonstrate university citizenship through service supporting office, divisional, and institutional priorities (e.g., teaching Student Life-supported transition courses, committee membership, event attendance).
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of OSW.

This position is not a clinical role and does not provide therapeutic services. The incumbent is considered a responsible employee (mandated reporter) and is not a confidential resource to students.

Requirements

• 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 Master’s 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. Years of experience may include internships, student employment, or other relevant background (part-time and student work will be prorated). Required qualifications must be completed by the start date of the position.
• 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 collaboratively across departments.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• A thorough understanding of student development, health promotion, behavior change, and population-based theories and models.
• Ability to thrive in a team-based environment that values student-centered approaches, collegiality, and a positive and enthusiastic attitude.

Benefits

This is a benefits-eligible position.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week. Occasional nights and weekends may be required.