Description
Duties & Responsibilities
Consulting/Advising
Provide individual teaching instruction and counsel to students on matters related to sexuality and sexual health.
Consult with and provide information to appropriate MHC on matters related to sexuality education of referred students, including medical record documentation. Refer students, when appropriate, to campus or community agencies, medical facilities etc.
Consult with the Women's Health Unit on the development of their unit's health education sexual health materials including teaching/education on; birth control methods/education, pregnancy test education and referral Issues.
Consult with Health Educators, Women's Health and other MHC Units in the teaching/development of sexuality education materials and effective teaching/advising methods.
Consult with Student Affairs, academic units, and other appropriate local health agencies on sexual and peer related activities.
Serve as a source of providing education/information for students, staff and faculty on matters related to sexual health and peer related programs.
Consult and maintain ongoing communication in sexual health, peer programs with other institutions of higher education including community units.
Coordinate and advise Health Education Peer related groups in conjunction with appropriate Health Educators.
Assist with staff education/training for Student Affairs, training of trainers for MHC Wellness Student Peer Leaders and serve on appropriate MHC, campus and local committees.
Participate in national, state and local conferences and meetings and share information with Health Education Unit and MHC staff as appropriate
Develop or locate appropriate sexual health and peer related educational materials for teaching/advising related responsibilities and act as a resource person for the Health Education Unit and MHC.
Coordinate and Supervise the Health Advocate program and train Teaching Assistants (TAs) for the Health Advocates and Sexuality/Peer programs. The TAs will be assisting the Coordinator with teaching/lecture related requests mostly from Residence Halls, Sororities, Fraternities and from Campus RSOs.
Programming
Develop, coordinate and evaluate sexuality education programs that are designed to promote healthy lifestyle decisions. Formats include teaching, advising and promoting illness prevention programs on sexual health to students in residence halls, Greek houses, club and ethnic group organizations, guest lectures, organize special events, displays and create educational materials.
Coordinate the Peer Education programs within the Health Education Unit by facilitating ongoing communication between Health Educators and maintaining consistency with regards to marketing student recruitment, curriculum development/evaluation and setting up teaching plans with campus academic units and Sororities/Fraternities.
Develop and coordinate programs on sexual health related issues including handouts, flyers, posters and other related materials.
Maintain unit sexuality and peer education materials and work with appropriate Health Education staff, MHC staff and other groups/individuals at UIUC for distribution of these materials at designated locations including website, newsletters, etc.
Plan and execute special events as well as collaborate with appropriate Campus Academic Units, MHC Health Educators in assisting with academic class teaching requests (guest lecture), campus-wide orientation programs, health fairs, conferences, and also participate in appropriate campus committees.
Execute special programs as requested by the Director of Health Education including unit's quality and data related projects.
Administration
In consultation with the Director of Health Education, recruit, train, teach and evaluate Graduate Assistant(s) and student peers and actively assist with unit's staff retreats and graduate student assistants training.
Educate, train, supervise and direct graduate assistants, student interns or student peers and coordinate in consultation with director of health education, the training, education and supervision of MHC Wellness Peer Programs.
Keep accurate records of students seen In programs presented and work In progress.
Provide oral and written reports upon request.
Attend the Health Education Unit staff meetings, and appropriate MHC and Student Affairs meetings.
Meet regularly with the Director of Health Education to Inform of changes, developments and program progress.
Participate in continuing education programs and professional growth experiences. Conduct ongoing Performance Improvement activities as part of the unit and MHC Q.I. program. Actively assist with development of the annual goals/objectives for the Health Education Unit and participate In the strategic planning process.
Contribute appropriate teaching and education materials to Health Education and MHC web sites.
Execute all University policies and procedures including those of Student Affairs, MHC and the Health Education Unit.
Responsible and accountable to support and ensure a culture of safety, quality and risk management including compliance with ethics.
Assume appropriate related additional duties to further the mission of the unit.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
Master's degree in Health Education or a related field.
Two (2) years of work experience in the development of health education programs in community, clinical and/or campus settings.
Preferred Qualifications
Experienced teaching skills, supervisory skills, computer knowledge and experience in data collection and analysis, as well as good public relations and communication skills.
