Student Wellness Coordinator

Location: Northfield, VT Category: Staff Posted On: Fri Oct Job Description:

Fulfills the mission of Norwich University by collaborating with Counseling and Wellness Center (CWC) staff and other campus departments to design and implement student-focused wellness initiatives. Occasionally provides administrative and coordinated program support to the Director and staff of the Counseling & Wellness Center, taking and transcribing meeting notes, and following through with other assigned tasks as needed.

This position can be between 24 to 30 hours per week, for 40 weeks per year.

Essential Functions

• Builds and maintains positive working relationships with student-facing campus departments to assess the need for training and collaboration with the CWC
• Designs and implements/disseminates training materials to staff, faculty, and student groups regarding student emotional health and wellness, with a focus on suicide prevention and substance abuse prevention
• Collaborates with clinical staff to design psychoeducational groups, workshops, events, etc. for students, related to emotional health and wellness, and crisis prevention
• Coordinates logistics of CWC events, including room reservations, acquisition of materials needed for events, set up and clean up before and after events, and other tasks as needed to ensure that events run smoothly
• Facilitates marketing of CWC events, including managing social media pages, creating and disseminating virtual content and posters, tabling, attending student-facing campus events, speaking to groups of students, faculty, and/or staff, and other marketing activities as appropriate
• Works with the Health Promotion class and student interns to implement programming
• Assists the office in its internal assessment of its services and effectiveness
• Maintains ongoing evaluation of necessity and utilization of wellness programs through the CWC and consults with Director and CWC staff regarding additions or deletions to offerings, collecting data about programs attendance, process and outcome evaluations
• Supports clinical staff in developing and implementing new student orientation programs and student leader training opportunities
• Assists in implementation of nationally standardized assessments, i.e. Healthy Minds Study
• Assists in assessment of GLS Grant deliverables
• Oversees work-study or internship student schedules and tasks as needed

Other Functions

• Maintains confidentiality of sensitive or private information.
• Communicates with employees, students, and others in a respectful and clear manner.
• Serves on University committees, councils, workgroups, or other designated bodies as assigned.
• Achieves, maintains proficiency in, and utilizes computers, telephones, and other job-related equipment, including related systems and software.
• Speaks, reads, and writes in English.
• Communicates by telephone, email, letter, in person, or other means or device.
• Performs other tasks as assigned by supervisor

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in public health education, health and human performance, psychology, human services or other related field.
• 1 year of experience in public health education, health and human performance, psychology, or human services or other related field preferred. Experience in another wellness related field, event coordination and logistics, and/or marketing considered.
• Experience in all levels of program planning, from conception to implementation and evaluation
• Commitment to data integrity, attention to detail and error-free reporting
• Exceptional customer service skills
• Comfort with speaking in front of large or small groups
• Able to manage multiple priorities
• Adept at utilizing social media outlets for marketing purposes
• Excellent time and project management skills.
• Able to adapt to and organize changing priorities, anticipate challenges and recommend solutions, generate and implement new ideas
• Understanding of HIPAA and FERPA, both of which pertain to the confidentiality of legally protected information
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook).
• Able to sit, squat, reach, push, pull, and manipulate related equipment; lift 15 pounds; travel outdoors to various parts of the campus
• Work some evening or weekend hours

Environmental Conditions

• Indoor work at a computer workstation
• Low level of exposure to noise, dust, fumes, vibrations, and temperature changes.

Additional Information:

Norwich University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a positive education and work environment that recognizes and respects the dignity of all students, faculty and staff. Reasonable accommodations will be made for the known disability of an otherwise qualified applicant. Please contact the Office of Human Resources at for assistance.

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring immigration sponsorship, including but not limited to non-immigrant visas such as H1B, STEM, or F1, now or in the future. A post offer, pre-employment background check will be required of the successful candidate.

Salary : $40,000 - $60,000