Assistant Director, Health Promotion Strategy Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine (Clinician Educator)

About the role

The Assistant Director, Health Promotion Strategy within the Office for Health Promotion Strategy, serves as a key member of the USC Well-being Collective. This role works collaboratively with campus and community partners to strengthen a culture driven by well-being.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate collective efforts to create a health-promoting campus at the University of Southern California.
• Broaden knowledge of well-being as a systems-level outcome of social, economic, and environmental conditions.
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to inform health promotion strategies, applying evidence-based theories and frameworks.
• Maintain relevant knowledge on evidence-based frameworks, trends in post-secondary education, and at USC specifically, best practices, government legislation, and non-government organization guidelines.
• Contribute to the strategic and operational plans, and specific initiatives, for the USC Well-being Collective by providing evidence-based expertise and analysis of existing assets or contexts.
• Using available data, identify, plan, and write external and peer-reviewed publications.
• Remain current on emerging best/wise practice; recommend outcomes for a publication agenda.
• Manage projects, ensuring progression of work towards stated outcomes. Establish scopes of work, timelines, and communicate regularly.
• Maintain partnerships through consistent, proactive communication, including with faculty members, departmental administrators, staff members, and students.
• Manage projects, ensuring progression of work towards stated outcomes. Establish scopes of work, timelines, and communicate regularly.
• Engage in regular assessment/quality improvement. Provide recommendations to the Director, Health Promotion Strategy on strategic changes to current initiatives and priorities for publications.
• Respond to requests for information, data and presentations.
• Oversee administration of budget, HR requirements, and hiring and management of professional, student worker and graduate intern staff.
• Provide training on visual learning, infographics, print and electronic presentations and other topics as needed.
• Participate and contribute to departmental goals, key performance indicators, strategic planning, deliverables.
• Engage in professional development for continuous learning and skills development.

Requirements

• A Master’s degree in Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology or similar field.
• A minimum of three years of experience working in higher education, governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, or similar setting.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with an ability to think strategically.
• Excellent writing skills, with knowledge of the process of peer-reviewed professional publication.
• Demonstrated ability to understand data, extract actionable insight, and communicate key findings in plain language.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills that foster collaboration with staff, faculty, students and community members.
• Demonstrated project management skills; and Flexibility and ability to navigate the complexities of systemic change.

Qualifications

• Experience in higher education, governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, or similar setting.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Ability to understand and communicate data insights.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Project management experience.

Skills

• Data analysis and interpretation.
• Strategic planning and implementation.
• Collaboration and partnership building.
• Writing and publication.
• Project management.

Benefits

The University of Southern California offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $80,000 – 95,000.

Schedule

This is a full-time position with standard work hours.