ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION

University Health Services (UHS) is looking for an experienced, passionate leader for violence prevention on the UW-Madison campus. UHS strives to promote, protect, and restore health and well-being. We are an integrated health care facility that fully integrates our prevention, medical, and mental health services. Within UHS, the Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives teams committed to creating a healthy and safe campus and community using public health tools of data, communications, capacity building and policy, systems and environmental change. This work is informed by our values of empowerment, authenticity, creativity, data-informed practice, and equity. This Assistant Director for Violence Prevention will be one of three Assistant Directors focusing on violence prevention, high risk drinking prevention and mental health promotion. While your work will focus on reducing relationship and sexual violence and misconduct on our campus and in our community, as a team, we are all working together to reduce the root causes of many of our campus' health concerns including power, privilege, racism, and discrimination. Your team members will work across all our issue areas in functional teams focusing on data, communications, coalition building, training and education, policy and health equity.

This position's primary responsibilities will include:

-Supervise a team focusing on capacity building, policy advocacy and development, data, and communications.
-Serve as campus leader for violence prevention through membership on campus committees and workgroups, available for consultation to campus and community partners, and representation at public events focused on violence prevention.
-Participate in the coordination of work ongoing at UHS related to survivor services and violence prevention, including medical and mental health services and advocacy.
-Provide leadership for the Prevention and Campus Health Initiative teams by developing and aligning with a strategic direction for our work, ensuring continuous quality improvement in our efforts, and aligning our work with our efforts towards health equity.