Graduate Student Employee (Health & Wellness Promotion)

Average Hours/Week: 20 hours/week

Position Dates: Approximately January 3, 2022 through January 3, 2023; renewable after year 1

Supervisor: Ryan Anderson, Assistant Program Director for Health and Wellness Intiatives

The Office of Health and Wellness Promotion is a unit within the Division of Student Affairs that serves to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and confidence of students to create an environment that supports making healthy and responsible choices. Some of our signature initiatives involve outreach presentations and events, Peer Health Educators, Sexual Health, Alcohol & Other Drug Education, Eight Dimensions of Wellness, and Collegiate Recovery Community.

The Graduate Student Employee is an essential student employee role that supports the Office of Health and Wellness Promotion to enhance the health and well-being of IUPUI students through the achievement of learning outcomes and health behavior outcomes. Specifically, the Graduate Student Employee supports education and outreach initiatives for health and wellness topics, program evaluation, data entry and other administrative functions. The Graduate Student Employee works closely with professional staff, collaborates with peers, and supervises program volunteers as needed. The Graduate Student Employee completes the work within the Office of Health and Wellness Promotion, and across campus and in the community when necessary.

 

The below breakdown of essential duties and responsibilities of the Graduate Student Employee also include applicable learning outcomes corresponding to IUPUI+ Learning Profiles.

·        Monitor and respond to office email account, including program sign ups, presentation requests, and general information requests.

·        Schedule presentation facilitators and communicate with requestors.

·        Schedule volunteer shifts for outreach events.

·        Maintain and streamline administrative processes, including creating and monitoring online registration forms, collection of tracking sheets, data collection, and database management.

·        Prepare materials for outreach events, and restock items returning from outreach events.

·        Facilitate classroom presentations on health and wellness topics.

·        Contribute to various campus health initiatives, special events, and related programming efforts.

·        Produce reports using outreach data, survey data, and evaluation metrics.

·        Update and facilitate undergraduate student employee onboarding training

·        Plan and facilitate monthly student employee group cohesion professional development experiences

·        Assist the Assistant Director with the training of Peer Educators including professional skills and leadership development

·        Participate in the fall and spring recruitment and selection of Peer Educators

·        Propose, create, schedule, implement, and evaluate a large scale campus awareness campaign on a health and wellness topic

·        Measure program effectiveness using process and outcome measures

·        Work with the Health Promotion Specialist to market and promote a large scale wellness campaign

·        Knowledge of and commitment to a holistic approach to wellness and health, including: alcohol and other drug use/abuse, sexual assault prevention, sexual health, stress management, mental health, nutrition/fitness, etc.

·        Ability to work independently in deadline-sensitive environment and consult when appropriate.

·        Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

·        Skills in multi-tasking, organization, and prioritization of project tasks.

As a result of employment, the team member will be able to demonstrate each of the IUPUI+ Learning Profiles.