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Student Affairs at Auburn University is excited to begin the search for an Assistant Director, Wellness Services! This role collaborates with the Director to implements strategic initiatives and provides oversight for the daily operations of Wellness Services. Supervises, manages, and evaluates professional staff members. Oversees the alcohol and drug prevention and intervention initiatives.
Cover letter with resume submission is required. Please combine into one document.
Responsibilities:
- Manages the daily operations of Wellness Services Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) education, Bystander Intervention, Student Wellness programming and Outreach, ensuring these services function effectively and efficiently. Ensures all policies and procedures are maintained and followed, and ensure Wellness Services meet the needs of Auburn University’s student body as they related to health and wellness. Supervises, manages, and evaluates professional staff members and multiple graduate students.
- Provides administrative supervision and leadership to the alcohol and drug intervention efforts, including meeting with individual students as appropriate. Identifies and solves operational challenges as they arise. Analyzes various data sets in order to implement new programming and make recommendations to enhance current offerings.
- Leads the Auburn Recovery Community (ARC) programming.
- Develops and coordinates effective educational outreach, marketing, and training strategies and materials.
- Collaborates with other campus partners to implement and develop prevention and education programming.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree Higher Education Administration, Counseling, Psychology, or related field.
- 3 years of experience in providing college student health services or counseling services.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience working in a health, education, or high-education setting is desired.
- Knowledge about college student behaviors, office management and other administrative processes are also desired.
- Experience working with addiction and/or counseling is desired.
- Experience in Higher Education is Desired.
Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of health education including organizational programming in a collegiate setting.
- Ability to handle personnel management and administration.
- Strong communication, critical thinking, organization skills as well as the ability to lead when the director is not available are crucial.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively when required as part of a multidisciplinary team, and demonstrate commitment to high professional practices and diversity issues.
Why Work at Auburn:
- Life-Changing Impact: Our work changes lives through research, instruction, and outreach, making a lasting impact on our students, our communities, and the world.
- Culture of Excellence:We are committed to leveraging our strengths, resources, collaboration, and innovation as a top employer in higher education.
- We’re Here for You:Auburn offers generous benefits, educational opportunities, and a culture of support and work/life balance.
- Sweet Home Alabama:The Auburn/Opelika area offers southern charm, vibrant downtown scenes, top-ranked schools, and easy access to Atlanta, Birmingham, and the Gulf of Mexico beaches.
- A Place for Everyone: Auburn is committed to fostering an environment where all faculty, staff, and students are welcomed, valued, respected, and engaged.
- Ready to lead and shape the future of higher education? Apply today! War Eagle!
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continuously changes to accommodate today's needs, while still respecting the traditions and spirit of Auburn. As we grow and change, Auburn will always continue its tradition of excellence.
The main campus had an enrollment during fall of 2007 of 24,137. Auburn University offers degrees in 13 schools and colleges at the undergraduate,
graduate and professional levels.
Auburn University is known not only for its academic excellence, but for its impact on Alabama as well. A recent study
determined AU had nearly $ 4 billion
economic impact on the state of Alabama, including a $ 1.5 billion impact on the economy and a $ 2.4 billion impact in "human capital." AU's Technical Assistance Center, a collaborative Engineering / Business outreach unit, performs hundreds of projects annually for state industry, generating millions of dollars in increased efficiencies and saving or creating hundreds of jobs statewide.
Auburn University has developed into one of the largest universities in the South, remaining in the educational forefront with its traditional blend of arts and applied science, and changing with the needs of today while living with a respect for the traditions and spirit that are Auburn.