Wellness Training Coordinator

Position Title Wellness Training Coordinator About the University

Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

About the Department Health Promotion & Resilience supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

Our Mission

The Mission of Health Promotion & Resilience is to facilitate student success and psychological well-being through culturally sensitive services, outreach, and consultation. We support the professional development of our staff and strive to embody the wellness we promote within the campus community.

Diversity Statement

Health Promotion & Resilience fosters a community that values and respects diversity.  An inclusive definition of diversity recognizes the variety of personal and social experiences that make individuals and communities different from one another.  These differences include race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, size, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations, genetic information, veteran status, and the many other ways one might identify.

About the Position Under the direction and supervision of the Director of the Assistant Director of Outreach & Health Promotion, this position serves as the primary coordinator of research, program evaluation, and digital training. This position is responsible for performing outcome analyses for clinical services, evaluating outreach and health promotion programming, and maintaining accurate data on Health Promotion & Resilience operations. This position also facilitates all activities and functions necessary to plan, implement, and evaluate the web-based sexual violence awareness and prevention training required for all new, matriculated students to Western and designated groups of ongoing students. This position independently advises all students training participants, staff, faculty, parents, and the public regarding training content, policies, procedures, and the requirement.

This position upholds the university’s mission of treating all community members with respect and dignity, as well as pursuing justice and equity in their practices.

The Washington state job classification for this position is Program Coordinator.

Required Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Demonstrated commitment to supporting a workplace culture in which diversity is honored, respected, and celebrated.
• Ability to identify and collaborate to remove inequities, barriers to access, and forms of oppression in programming or services related to this position.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively within a team and independently.
• Strong customer service skills