Behavioral Health Initiatives Coordinator, Student Care Network

Vanderbilt University•Nashville, TN

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Student Care Network (SCN) Campus Behavioral Health Initiatives Coordinator is a key member of the Student Care Network Central Team within Vanderbilt University’s Division of Student Affairs. The Coordinator supports strategic campus-wide initiatives through health promotion, prevention, and early intervention, collaborating with SCN offices and campus partners to coordinate programs, resources, and outreach that enhance student success and wellbeing. The role combines public health knowledge, health education, program coordination, partnership development, and a commitment to student wellbeing. The Coordinator supports SCN operations and campus-wide wellbeing initiatives; builds partnerships across the university; and contributes to program research, assessment, and continuous improvement. The position also participates in divisional and institutional committees, task forces, working groups, and events, and helps ensure operations comply with relevant university policies and procedures. The role has no supervisory responsibility and reports administratively and functionally to the Associate Director for Campus Behavioral Health Initiatives. This is a regular, full-time, benefits-eligible, exempt, onsite role. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required for training and outreach outside standard business hours. The position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Three to four years of experience designing, implementing, coordinating, and/or assessing wellbeing, health education, mental health, public health, or related programs. Qualifying experience may come from professional experience, coursework, internships, assistantships, or other applied experiences.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Education, Social Work, Counseling, or a related mental health field.
CHES, M-CHES, or CPH certification; candidates without certification are encouraged to apply, as certification may be obtained during employment.
Knowledge of health promotion, prevention science, behavior change theories, and population-based approaches to improving health outcomes.
Ability to communicate health and wellbeing concepts through presentations, trainings, educational materials, and outreach initiatives.
Experience applying public health, health promotion, prevention, or population-level approaches to improve wellbeing outcomes.
Experience using data, learning outcomes, and assessment findings to evaluate programs and inform program development.
Experience coordinating programs and initiatives, including timelines, logistics, communications, and campus partnerships.
Experience working in a higher education environment.
Ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with campus and community partners to support wellbeing initiatives.
Experience developing and delivering health education programs, facilitating presentations and trainings, and engaging diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

Assist with maintaining the SCN programs and trainings request process; review, assign, and track requests across SCN offices and facilitate requests within the Campus Behavioral Health Initiatives portfolio.
Coordinate and maintain SCN network-specific calendars to improve program visibility, cross-campus coordination, partnership identification, and alignment of wellbeing efforts.
Support the planning, coordination, and implementation of SCN trainings, programs, and events, including contracts, vendor and campus-partner logistics, materials, and operational needs.
Coordinate donor-funded wellbeing initiatives in alignment with funding priorities and assist with collecting outcomes, impact information, and materials for donor reporting.
Coordinate and support evidence-informed campus wellbeing and health promotion initiatives that foster connection and belonging, increase resource awareness, encourage help-seeking, and integrate suicide prevention education and awareness.
Design programs around defined learning objectives and available data, using assessment findings, campus trends, and evidence-informed practices to improve effectiveness and inform future initiatives.
Serve as a liaison with Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS), connecting its outreach, educational programming, and clinical expertise with SCN programming and campus-wide initiatives.
Collaborate with SCN offices and campus partners to collect, co-develop, coordinate, and review training content, presentations, and educational resources.
Work with student organizations and campus partners to expand access to wellbeing resources, funding opportunities, educational programming, and evidence-informed prevention and health promotion strategies.
Build relationships with student-led mental health and wellbeing organizations and SCN Peer Guides to gather feedback, promote student-led initiatives, and connect peer programming with SCN priorities.
Maintain an active collaborative relationship with the Peer Education Coordinator.
Support assessment and evaluation processes by monitoring outcomes and measures, coordinating data collection, and using assessment findings, participant feedback, research, and emerging trends to inform continuous improvement.
Research and summarize emerging practices and national trends in campus wellbeing, mental health promotion and education, public health, psychology, and related disciplines.
Serve on divisional and institutional committees, task forces, and working groups, and participate in divisional initiatives and events such as Move-In Day and division meetings and gatherings.
Maintain working knowledge of university policies, procedures, and systems related to travel, procurement, expenses, and time reporting.
Support divisional colleagues and contribute to shared goals and strategic priorities.