BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM MANAGER

Salary:

Minimum $70,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications

Job Summary:

About Extension:
UW-Madison's Division of Extension serves the people and communities of Wisconsin by addressing local, statewide and national issues, improving lives through research-based education, fostering partnerships and action, and facilitating positive impacts.

About the Health & Well-Being Institute:
The Health & Well-Being Institute works to catalyze positive change in Wisconsin residents through evidence-based and community-engaged health promotion programs to improve health, build community capacity to identify and address health inequities, engage in collective action, and achieve greater health equity.

About the position:
The Behavioral Health Outreach Program Manager provides strategic leadership, coaching, and guidance for planning, implementation, and evaluation of community-based health promotion programs focused on mental well-being and substance misuse and their social determinants of health. Current behavioral health program priorities include promoting youth mental health and adolescent well-being, including among BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth, the prevention of substance misuse, and addressing rural stress and positive coping. Position priorities include:
- Direct coaching and support to Extension educators to plan, implement, and evaluate community-engaged health promotion programs
- Strategic alignment and program development of Extension efforts to advance collective action to address behavioral health inequities
- Partnership development with key partners at national, state, regional, and local levels
- Grant development and management

Responsibilities:

Provides guidance for program planning, implementation, and evaluation, and/or supervises outreach staff. Monitors budget and appropriate funding for programming. Promotes stable and productive relationships between the university and community. Strives to expand and ensure access to programs, facilities, and educational services to diverse audiences.

• 20% Supervises the implementation of outreach-program-focused strategic planning initiatives and objectives
• 15% Develops and implements operating policies and procedures to promote the outreach program in alignment with the strategic plan
• 5% Monitors the unit or program budget and approves program expenditures
• 20% Reviews recommendations for and provides input on the design and development of new outreach programs or services
• 15% Determines outreach program needs and the personnel resource allocation plan
• 5% May exercise supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 FTE or equivalent employees
• 10% Communicates collective impacts and oversees web and Extension publication content
• 10% Maintains and develops partnerships with key internal and external partners

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Required
Master's Degree
Preferred in a related field such as public health, community health education, community psychology, sociology, or social work

Qualifications:

Required:
-At least 5 years of relevant work experience
-Experience developing, implementing, evaluating and reporting on the impact of multi-level educational programs designed to promote health
-Skills in interpreting, utilizing, and applying evidence-based information and research findings to educational programming
-Previous program or project management experience
-Demonstrated experience effectively interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds including those associated with race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, disability, sexual orientation and other aspects of human diversity
-Commitment to Extension's values of equity and social justice to support opportunities and outcomes for youth, families, and communities

Preferred:
-Experience managing budgets
-Experience obtaining funding through grants, contracts, gifts, and/or revenue generation
-Ability to supervise and manage staff
-Ability to think creatively, identify root causes, systems of influence and synthesize inter-disciplinary approaches to conceptualizing and addressing health equity work

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable


Additional Information:

Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

How to Apply:

We are eager to learn more about how your experience and passion may align with this position. Please submit a cover letter referring to your related work experience and a resume detailing your educational and professional background. Please keep in mind, applicants need to articulate all required qualifications in their cover letter and/or resume. Applicants who have preferred qualifications should share those too in the cover letter and/or resume. The application reviewers will be relying on written application materials to determine who may advance to preliminary interviews.

Contact:

Amber Canto
amber.canto@wisc.edu
608-262-0384
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Official Title:

Outreach Program Manager(OE008)

Department(s):

A473640-EXTENSION/YFH/HLTH/BEHAVIORALHEALTH

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

271024-AS



The University of Wisconsin is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website: https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/

Employment will require a criminal background check. It will also require you and your references to answer questions regarding sexual violence and sexual harassment.

The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).

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Applications Open: Nov 28 2022 Central Standard Time
Applications Close: Dec 19 2022 11:55 PM Central Standard Time