Mental Health Promotion Specialist

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Full/Part Time
Schedule
Salary
32007781 Full Time 8AM - 5PM $64,300 - $114,300

The Well is UC Riverside's health promotion department focused on student holistic well-being, housed within the Health, Well-being, and Safety Organization. The Mental Health Promotion Specialist will perform highly skilled and complex work, planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based health promotion strategies, and advocating for well-being policies/practices in their topic areas, programs, and services for University of California Riverside students. Programmatic elements include training and educational workshops aimed at decreasing the stigma associated with seeking mental health services and increasing awareness, intervention, referral, and help-seeking behaviors. The Mental Health Promotion Specialist will also play a leadership role in planning, developing, implementing, evaluating, and reporting on multifaceted, campus-wide mental health education and promotion efforts as part of The Well and the UCR's Health Well-being and Safety Organization. This includes, but is not limited to, presentations, lectures, campaigns, awareness week events, workshops, training programs, and special events for the University community, based on identified needs. The Mental Health Promotion Specialist will also be responsible for overseeing a peer group and a graduate student, including student staff hiring, supervision, and training, managing a program budget, staying current on mental health trends and needs of college students, and researching evidence-based mental health promotion programs and best practices. In addition, The Mental Health Promotion Specialist in collaboration with Health Well-being and Safety will help support mental health equity initiatives including Mental Health Allies and Collective Impact Team efforts. The successful applicant will demonstrate their high level of understanding of mental health and psychological services but also demonstrate their knowledge of connecting with students who identify as historically underrepresented BIPOC students, African Diaspora, API, Latinx, international, first-generation, undocumented, veterans, students with disabilities, graduate students and LGBTQI+ communities as examples and working from a healthy equity/JEDI lens.

A presentation will be required as a part of this interview process.

The full salary range for the Mental Health Promotion Specialist is $64,300 - $114,300 annually. However, the expected pay scale for this position is up to $73,000 annually. We base salary offers on a variety of considerations, such as education, licensure and certifications, experience, and other business and organizational needs.

Applicants must have current work authorization when accepting a UCR staff position. Currently, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa for staff.

As a university employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Thorough knowledge of the design and delivery of related programs.
Skills associated with both the development and delivery of health education programs and services.
Effective interpersonal skills to interact effectively with diverse client groups.
Ability to analyze, interpret and respond to client needs.
Thorough knowledge of the health promotion and education field.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Effective organizational skills.

In the Heart of Inland Southern California, UC Riverside is located on nearly 1,200 acres near Box Springs Mountain in Southern California; the park-like campus provides convenient access to the vibrant and growing Inland region. The campus is a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities' air, water, energy, transportation, politics, the arts, history, and culture. UCR gives every student, faculty and staff member the resources to explore, engage, imagine and excel.

UC Riverside is recognized as one of the most ethnically diverse research universities in the country boasting several key rankings of which we are extremely proud.

• UC Riverside is proud to be ranked No. 12 among all U.S. universities, according to Money Magazine's 2020 rankings, and among the top 1 percent of universities worldwide, according to the 2019-20 Center for World University rankings.
  


• UC Riverside is the top university in the United States for social mobility. - U.S. News 2020
  


• UCR is a member of the University Innovation Alliance, the leading national coalition of public research universities committed to improving student success for low-income, first-generation, and students of color.
  


• Among top-tier universities, UC Riverside ranks No. 2 in financial aid. - Business Insider 2019
  


• Ranked No. 2 in the world for research, UCR's Department of Entomology maintains one of the largest collections of insect specimens the nation. - Center for World University Rankings
  


• UCR's distinguished faculty boasts 2 Nobel Laureates, and 13 members of the National Academies of Science and Medicine.
  

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For information about our generous employee benefits package, visit: Employee Benefits Overview