| 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. |
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| RESPONSIBILITIES: | Improves well-being of the campus community by engaging with campus and community stakeholders and using population-level data to prioritize, design, implement, and evaluate strategies to achieve measurable health improvements by creating health-supporting systems, policies, and environments. Supports and directs the work of others.
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| 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 |
| EDUCATION: | Required Master’s Degree |
| QUALIFICATIONS: | Minimum qualifications: -Professional experience working in public health, injury or violence prevention or survivor advocacy Preferred qualifications: |
| 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. |
| WORK TYPE: | Full Time: 100%
It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, on-site, at a designated campus work location. |
| APPOINTMENT TYPE, DURATION: | Ongoing/Renewable |
| SALARY: | Minimum $70,000 ANNUAL (12 months) Depending on Qualifications |
| ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: | 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.
UHS is part of Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led by the vice chancellor for student affairs. Our staff is dedicated to serving students and to helping them succeed in and out of the classroom in areas including health and well-being, identity and inclusion, leadership and engagement, and student advocacy. Student Affairs includes departments led by the dean of students; departments that provide identity-based spaces and leadership resources; the Wisconsin Union; University Health Services; and University Recreation and Wellbeing. A period of evaluation will be required, and a criminal background check will be conducted prior to hiring. |
| HOW TO APPLY: | Please click on the “Apply Now” button to start the application process. You will be required to login or create an account to continue. Please upload a cover letter and resume to apply. You will also be asked to provide the contact information for three professional references, one of which should be a current or former supervisor |
| CONTACT: | Sara Carrillo |