Health and Well-Being Educator

Job Summary

This position will advance multi-level health promotion strategies by engaging in and coordinating community-based health coalitions, facilitating partner alignment to support health, working directly with community organizations and settings to promote health-supportive policies, systems, and environments, and delivering education on health behaviors. Health & Well-Being educators are responsible for conducting local situational analyses and have experience in program development and evaluation.

Initial programming efforts will include conducting a landscape analysis of existing programs, partnerships, and community-identified health priorities in Waukesha County. This will inform the identification of gaps and opportunities to align and strengthen evidence-based health promotion strategies in collaboration with local health partners, county health divisions, schools, health organizations, and community members.

County Location

The main office for this position is located in Waukesha, WI and the primary programming focus is Waukesha County; however, some programming may also be conducted over a broader geographical area.

In Person

It is anticipated this position requires work be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location.

Evening/Weekend Work

This position may be required to work occasional nights and weekends to meet the program needs and priorities of the communities served.

Travel Expectations

It is expected that employees will make individual arrangements for transportation adequate to meet position responsibilities and essential job functions.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Delivers outreach program content and materials to community members
• Develops and evaluates curriculum and programs and provides recommendations for improvement
• Leads the implementation of programs, policies, and procedures through oversight of day-to-day activities for program staff and student and community volunteers
• Communicate plans, activities and achievements to Area Extension Director, Program Managers, partners and relevant stakeholders
• Identifies, promotes, and maintains external partnerships to support the outreach program
• May assist with the monitoring of outreach program budget spending
• Schedules and secures resources and communicates logistics in support of an outreach program
• Secures educational program revenue annually to support office revenue requirements
• Researches, develops, and facilitates outreach program content and materials