Behavioral Health Program Coordinator

Oregon State University; Corvallis (OR); Vor Ort; USD 65.000 - 85.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Oregon State University Division of Extension and Engagement's Health Extension program seeks a Behavioral Health Program Coordinator. This is a full-time, 12-month, professional faculty position in Corvallis, Oregon.

The role leads mental and behavioral health initiatives, collaborates with COH, Extension faculty, and public health agencies to advance health equity across Oregon. A criminal history check is required and salary is commensurate with experience.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or higher in public health, social work, education or related field.
• Leadership experience in a professional setting.
• Understanding of higher education and community partnerships and their cultures.
• Experience promoting mental health or health-related education in community settings.

Aufgaben

• Manage and supervise planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of mental and behavioral health programs.
• Share COH expertise with Health Extension peers statewide; provide training and TA to partners.
• Collaborate with state/local partners to identify and address behavioral health issues and reduce disparities.
• Lead community-based planning with Extension staff and partners to maximize impact and funding.
• Prepare analyses and data for needs assessment and program evaluation; monitor performance.
• Develop annual work plans addressing population needs and report reach/effectiveness.

Kenntnisse

Mental health promotion

Leadership

Data analysis

Customer service

Decision making

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in public health, social work, education or related field

Leadership experience

Higher education partnerships

Statistics / evaluation basics

Jobbeschreibung

Department: Division of Extension & Engagement's Health Program

Job Summary

Oregon State University Division of Extension and Engagement's Health Extension program is seeking a Behavioral Health Program Coordinator. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position.

The mission of the OSU Division of Extension and Engagement is to work with communities throughout Oregon to support lifelong learning and co-create innovative solutions to address local challenges. Together, we envision a future where Oregon's people, communities, and ecosystems prosper.

The Behavioral Health Program Coordinator position is a member of the statewide team of the OSU Extension Health program affiliated with the College of Health (COH). The Health Extension program advances lifelong health and well-being across Oregon.

Behavioral Health Program Coordinator provides leadership to the Health Extension programs focusing on mental and behavioral health and well-being. The position will collaborate with Health Extension, COH, and Extension faculty, staff, and students as well as state, local, and regional public health agencies; and community partners to accomplish program objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise the planning, selection or development, implementation, and evaluation of mental and behavioral health and well-being programs provided by Health Extension while being responsive to community needs and interests.
• Maintain, develop, and share COH expertise with Health Extension peers statewide, and provide training and technical assistance to state and local partners.
• Contribute to identifying and solving community-based problems and issues in Oregon relating to behavioral health and reducing health disparities; identify opportunities and strategies that lead to interventions that can successfully address these issues through cultivation of community collaborations.
• Actively participate in or lead community-based planning with Extension faculty & staff and community agencies & organizations to conceptualize, organize and implement relevant programs/strategies in a manner that complement existing programs and services, maximizes opportunities and collective impact, and develop financial and policymaker support for programs.
• Compile, prepare, and compose analyses, data and documents for needs assessment and program evaluation. Collect and monitor performance on all activities, in collaboration with Health Extension team; includes maintaining systems of record keeping and data management.
• Develop annual plan of work that addresses population needs and place-based issues, as well as evaluate and report the reach and effectiveness of programming efforts and activity implementation to produce intended outcomes and collective impacts. Collaborate with partner organizations to maximize collective impact and develop financial support for needed programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in public health, social work, education or related field.
• Demonstrated promotion to leadership/leadership experience in a professional setting.
• Demonstrated work ethic, professionalism, and related attributes that garner the respect of colleagues, community partners, program stakeholders, university or college administrators, and others.
• Evidence of understanding of higher education and community partnerships and their cultures.
• Professional or personal experience promoting mental health, preventing suicide, or preventing substance use in community settings, or related experience promoting health or preventing disease, more broadly (e.g., nutrition education, food resource management, physical activity education, parenting/early childhood education, environmental health or disaster preparedness education) in community settings with professional desire to serve in behavioral health leadership.
• Basic performance monitoring, evaluation, research methods, and statistical skills for working with quantitative or qualitative data sets.
• Strong decision-making skills, including ability to set priorities and manage deadlines.
• Strong commitment to excellent customer service.
• This position is designated as a critical or security-sensitive position; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a criminal history check and be determined to be position qualified as per Universit

Starting Salary

Starting salary will be commensurate with skills, education, and experience.

Contact

For additional information please contact:
Teresa Crowley
[e-mail]
541-737-1014