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Student Wellness 

The Student Wellness Manager develops programs to teach the University community about conditions that affect your well-being; promote wellness by helping people adopt healthy behaviors; stay current on new research and community issues related to community welfare; plan, organize and direct strategic goals to implement and evaluate wellness initiatives.

• Oversee the daily operation of health promotion services and programs
• Lead and promote the health services and programs for University
• Provide knowledge and guidance to leadership to promote health initiatives
• Maintain high standards for research-based initiatives and best practices
• Prepare and maintain accurate records of programs, evaluative responses, and create monthly reports
• Directly supervise, train, and evaluate staff
• Ensure that staff are educated and follow University policies related to HIPAA, FERPA, etc.
• Provide leadership to support the development of services and programs at all University campuses
• Develop and oversee cost centers/budgets
• Serve on leadership and University committees and/or taskforces

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 12
• Minimum – $76,700.00
• MidPoint – $95,900.00
• Maximum – $115,100.00