Outreach Specialist

Job Summary:
This position is located in the Department of Health Services (DHS), Division of Public Health (DPH), Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health (BEOH), Hazard Assessment Section and is maintained through a contract and ongoing partnership with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health's Department of Population Health Sciences (PHS).

BEOH is committed to ensuring each person can breathe clean air, drink clean water, and grow up, live, and work in healthy spaces. BEOH leads with prevention, focusing on safe environments and healthy communities and working collectively with partners to recognize, evaluate and control environmental public health hazards.

This position will lead outreach activities for BEOH's Radon and Indoor Air Program, including developing and implementing communications strategies, and building and maintaining robust statewide public health partnerships related to radon and indoor air.
Responsibilities: Delivers and assists with planning outreach program activities, strengthens partnerships, ensures adherence to policy, and assists with program administration to promote stable and productive relationships between the university and local community. Strives to expand and ensure access to programs, facilities, and educational services to diverse audiences. May assist with tracking and managing the outreach program budget.

• 25% Identifies, promotes, and maintains external partnerships to support the outreach program
• 15% Schedules and secures resources and communicates logistics in support of an outreach program
• 15% Delivers outreach program content and materials to community members
• 10% Researches, develops, and facilitates outreach program content and materials
• 5% Develops and evaluates curriculum and programs and provides recommendations for improvement
• 10% Leads the implementation of programs, policies, and procedures through oversight of day-to-day activities for program staff and student and community volunteers
• 10% Plan, coordinate and evaluate statewide meetings and conferences related to radon and indoor air quality
• 10% Solicit, collect, analyze and disseminate stakeholder feedback on policies related to housing and radon abatement contractor certification

Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion
Education:
Preferred
Bachelor's Degreein public health, health communication, journalism, marketing, environmental studies, or social sciences field.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of two years of experience required working in a field related to public health and/or housing.
- Knowledge of the principles, practices, and objectives of public health with a focus on environmental health, risk communication, and/or chronic diseases

Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Adobe Create Cloud and Drupal content management system is a plus.
- Experience writing and editing content for print, web, social media, multi-media, and presentations (webinar and in-person).
- Experience with work related to health equity, health disparities in communities of color, and housing as a social determinant of health.
- Evidence of collaborative work with multiple stakeholders in public health.

Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to develop, implement and evaluate communications plans and social media campaigns for public health initiatives.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience working with many different audiences (such as epidemiologists, researchers, policymakers and the public).
- Ability to establish and maintain effective collaborative relationships with a wide-variety of statewide, regional and local agencies, organizations, community groups and individuals.
- Ability to use standard Microsoft Office applications.
Work Type:
Full or Part Time: 80% - 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
Appointment Type, Duration:
Ongoing/Renewable
Salary:
Minimum $64,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
The minimum salary for the position is $64,000 but is negotiable based on experience and qualifications. Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at (https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/).

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Additional Information:
Travel is required. Must provide a valid driver's license. Employees may use their own transportation or receive approval for University Car Fleet usage. Employment is conditional pending the results of a Pre-hire Driver Authorization Check. See https://businessservices.wisc.edu/managing-risk/driver-authorization-and-insurance/driver-authorization/#become-authorized-driver(click on Become an authorized driver; then click on Required criteria).

University sponsorship is not available for this position, including transfers of sponsorship. The selected applicant will be responsible for ensuring their continuous eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without the need of an employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment. This position is an ongoing position that will require continuous work eligibility. UW-Madison is not an E-Verify employer, and therefore, is not eligible to employ F1 STEM OPT Extension participants. If you are selected for this position you must provide proof of work authorization and eligibility to work.
How to Apply:
To apply for this position, please click on the "Apply Now" button. You will be asked to upload a current resume/CV and a cover letter briefly describing your qualifications and experience.
Contact:
Brittany Brown
brittany.brown@wisc.edu
608-265-2978
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.
Official Title:
Outreach Specialist(OE009)
Department(s):
A53-MEDICAL SCHOOL/POP HEALTH SCI/POP HLTH
Employment Class:
Academic Staff-Renewable
Job Number:
305033-AS