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HEALTH EQUITY AND WELL-BEING SPECIALIST

Job no: 251177-AS
Work type: Partial Remote, Staff-Full Time
Department: G SERV/HUMAN RES/EEIDW
Location: Madison
Categories: Community and Employee Health, Education, and Wellness



Job Summary:

About the Office of Human Resources:
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) serves employees on campus in the development, implementation and evaluation of comprehensive personnel, employee learning, and employment relations matters. Through consultation, communication, and support, OHR assists campus in all human resources needs and demands of the changing higher education environment. https://hr.wisc.edu/about/

About the Office of Equity, Inclusion & Employee Well-being:
The Office of Equity, Inclusion & Employee Well-being is a new unit within OHR that provides high level consultation, support, and resources to schools, colleges, divisions, and units on campus working to create healthy, equitable, and inclusive policies, systems, and environments for employees to engage, grow, and thrive on campus. This unit is grounded in our current context, one that is deeply embedded in the historical realities of systemic racism. This unit provides us the opportunity to engage with the tensions and intersections of racial equity as it relates to the employee experience by creating and transforming our campus as a space rooted in equity and well-being for all employees.

About the Health Equity & Well-being Specialist role:
This position is responsible for providing consultation, convening stakeholders, assessing needs, and identifying gaps to guide/lead the campus employee well-being strategy to enhance the health outcomes, experiences, and well-being of UW-Madison employees through population-level and public health approaches.

About the Job:

Population Health Specialist (HS082)

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

Qualifications:

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:
- 3 years of professional, personal and/or lived experiences in one or more of the following areas:
- Health equity
- Public and/or population health
- Employee and/or workplace well-being
- Social justice and/or racial equity
- Racial healing and/or healing justice

Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities:
- Demonstrated knowledge and/or experience in health equity, public health, employee well-being, social justice, racial equity, racial healing, AND/OR healing justice.
- Demonstrated knowledge and/or experience in strategic planning and visioning.
- Demonstrated knowledge of policy, system, and environment (PSE)-level approaches to creating and sustaining equitable work structures and spaces.
- Demonstrated ability and/or experience facilitating dialogue with diverse stakeholder groups with differing perspectives.
- Demonstrated ability and/or experience collaborating and developing/sustaining campus and community partnerships.
- Strong interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills
- Strong change management and project management skills
- Strong assessment and continuous planning skills
- Strong analytic, critical thinking and problem-solving skills

COVID-19 Considerations:

UW-Madison continues to follow necessary health and safety protocols to protect our campus from COVID-19. All employees remain subject to the COVID-19 Workplace Safety Policy: https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-5086 . Please visit https://covidresponse.wisc.edu for the most up-to-date information.

Additional Information:

To provide additional clarity and to create a shared understanding of this role, below are definitions of key working terms pertinent to this position:

Health equity
- Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthier. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care. In short, health equity can be understood not just as the absence of inequity but rather a fair, just distribution of the resources and opportunities needed to achieve well-being. (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Well-being
- Well-being is an active pursuit to understand and fulfill individual human needs, which allows people to flourish and realize their full potential. Every person has unique, fluid well-being aspirations, and successful initiatives require working towards positive, equitable outcomes for our campus community around seven intersecting elements of well-being.

Social justice
- Social justice is both a goal and a process. The goal of social justice is full and equitable participation of people from all social identity groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. The process for attaining the goal of social justice should also be democratic and participatory, respectful of human diversity and group differences, and inclusive and affirming of human agency and capacity for working collaboratively with others to create change. (Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, Edited by Maurianne Adams and Lee Anne Bell, with Diane Goodman and Khyati Joshi)

Racial equity
- Conditions, processes, and practices that would be achieved if one's racial identity no longer predicted, in a statistical sense, how one fares. Racial equity is a component of racial justice, which can include elimination of policies, practices, attitudes, cultural messages that reinforce differential outcomes by race. (Adapted from Racial Equity Tools, racialequitytools.org)

Racial healing
- Racial healing is a process to begin to unlearn the stereotyped messages you internalize about your own race and the race of others. Racial healing recognizes the need to honestly acknowledge the historical and current impact and trauma of racism and address the present consequences. (Adapted from The Racial Healing Handbook, by Anneliese Singh and W.K. Kellogg Foundation)

Healing justice
- A framework and/or strategy to address collective harm, trauma, and systemic oppression to sustain our emotional, physical, spiritual, and environmental well-being. (Adapted from Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, http://kindredsouthernhjcollective.org/ )

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.

Department(s):

A022031-GENERAL SERVICES/OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES/EEIDW

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

This position requires some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable

Salary:

Minimum $65,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications

How to Apply:

Click the "" button to start the application process.

Submit a resume AND cover letter detailing your knowledge, experience, and background in the following areas:
- Experience leading health equity, public or population health, employee or workplace well-being, social justice or racial equity, racial healing, or healing justice strategies/efforts
- Demonstrated understanding and/or experience in prioritizing equity in their work/practice
- Experience collaborating and working with multiple, diverse stakeholders and sustaining partnerships
- Demonstrated understanding and/or experience operationalizing policy, system, environment (PSE) approaches

Contact:

Dan Roen
dan.roen@wisc.edu
608-263-2767
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See RELAY_SERVICE for further information. )





Official Title:

Population Health Specialist(HS082)

Employment Class:

Academic Staff-Renewable

Job Number:

251177-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).

The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department .

Applications Open: Jan 26 2022 Central Standard Time
Applications Close: Mar 7 2022 11:55 PM Central Standard Time

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