Behavioral Health Initiative Outreach Coordinator

Job Summary:

The Behavioral Health Initiative Outreach Coordinator plays a crucial role in supporting the Behavioral Health Initiative at Southern Oregon University. This position works collaboratively with various programs across the university to shepherd students through degree pathways, prepare them for careers in behavioral and mental health, and facilitate outward-facing professional development opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the BHI Director in seeking public and private funding, communicating opportunities to faculty, staff, and administration, and participating in the development and submission of proposals and grant applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development of programmatic systems and maintain programmatic details for BHI programs.
• Assist with fiscal planning and tracking spending progress, monitoring activities for grant alignment.
• Meet with local and regional grant partners to plan and implement project goals.
• Plan events and professional development workshops and advise non-degree-seeking students on academic credit options, including potential education pathways, and assist them in navigating the University systems and policies.
• Craft and send timely programmatic communications to workshop and micro-credential participants and lead advising and orientation sessions.
• Assist in the development of program marketing and planning materials.
• Act as a liaison between community instructors and SOU, handling irregular contract requests and travel reimbursements.
• Participate in writing project summaries and reports.
• Provide all support for scheduling, registration, and implementation of professional workshops.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a behavioral health or related field.
• Experience working with grants and external funding.
• Experience working in a university environment.
• Demonstrated experience working with external behavioral health partners.
• Demonstrated evidence of creative problem-solving skills.

Preferred Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience working in a higher education environment or for a behavioral health provider.
• 2+ years of experience working in grants and contracts.

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively communicate information in a clear and understandable manner, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrated customer service experience requiring a very high level of diplomacy and professionalism to effectively handle a broad range of sensitive interpersonal situations.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and consistently apply a wide variety of complex policies and procedures where specific guidelines may not always exist.
• Expressed ability to work with frequent changes in policies and procedures, under pressure of deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively assess work operations and anticipate potential problems; ability to develop and implement strategies for preventing/resolving problems.
• Great ability to effectively perform work of a highly sensitive and confidential nature that requires access to information. Must be able to exercise sound judgment and discretion, tact, and diplomacy.
• Takes initiative in independently planning, organizing, and performing work assignments within broadly defined parameters.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a high level of productivity and accuracy/attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the demonstrated ability to set own priorities to coordinate multiple assignments with fluctuating and time-sensitive deadlines.
• Excellent computer skills and proficiency with a variety of computer applications including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, online systems, social media platforms, Internet as well as online calendaring and email.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate, establish, and foster communication and teamwork by maintaining a positive, cooperative, productive work atmosphere in and outside the University with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships within a diverse population and with those from various cultural backgrounds.
• Willingness to and work effectively in a heavily bureaucratic environment which requires regular interaction with a number of levels within the organization and multiple outside agencies.
• Working knowledge or ability to quickly learn, university infrastructure, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrated skills in an institutional/educational environment utilizing a customer-oriented and service-centered attitude.

Physical Demands:

• Normal office activities such as sitting/standing at a desk, using a computer, answering phones, and communicating in person both in writing and via phone with others.

Special Conditions:

• Must be willing to travel and attend training programs off-site for occasional professional development.
• Must be able to work additional hours and adjust working hours to meet special jobs. May be called back periodically to perform work as needed on an emergency basis.
• Must be able to successfully pass a pre-employment background check.
• This position classification has been defined as exempt and is not subject to the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
• The person holding this position is considered a mandatory reporter under the Oregon Revised Statutes and is required to comply with the requirements set forth by the Oregon Department of Human Services.

SOU is an equal access AA/EOE committed to achieving a diverse and inclusive workforce

Diversity Statement:
Southern Oregon University is a welcoming community committed to inclusive excellence and the celebration of diversity. Without diversity, our educational process is diminished. Working together in support of our commitment to diversity, we strengthen and enrich our role as learners, educators and members of a tightly connected global community. We encourage those who share in our commitment to diversity, to join our community and we expect all our employees to demonstrate an ability and desire to create an inclusive campus community.

SOU Land Acknowledgement
We want to take this moment to acknowledge that Southern Oregon University is located within the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples who lived here since time immemorial. These Tribes were displaced during rapid Euro-American colonization, the Gold Rush, and armed conflict between 1851 and 1856. In the 1850s, discovery of gold and settlement brought thousands of Euro-Americans to their lands, leading to warfare, epidemics, starvation, and villages being burned. In 1853 the first of several treaties were signed, confederating these Tribes and others together - who would then be referred to as the Rogue River Tribe. These treaties ceded most of their homelands to the United States, and in return they were guaranteed a permanent homeland reserved for them. At the end of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, these Tribes and many other Tribes from western Oregon were removed to the Siletz Reservation and the Grand Ronde Reservation. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon ) and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians ) are living descendants of the Takelma, Shasta, and Latgawa peoples of this area. We [you may say I or the name of a program/department] encourage YOU to learn about the land you reside on, and to join us in advocating for the inherent sovereignty of Indigenous people.

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