A Brief Overview
The Peer Health Outreach Coordinator manages a large team of student staff and volunteers within Health Promotions in order to develop, deliver, and evaluate a variety of programs and services for students. The role will provide expert guidance to faculty, staff, students, and external partners with the goal of promoting the health and wellness of Queen’s students.

This position establishes priorities and schedules students, acts as a mentor, and provides ongoing feedback to students. This position builds partnerships and collaborates with departments and with community partners to implement academic resources and initiatives that support student success. This position plans, develops, and delivers programs, training, services, and events that enrich student life, enhance the student experience, and facilitate student success. This position also assists in developing, implementing, and evaluating academic success programs.

• • Establishes priorities and schedules students, acts as a mentor, and provides ongoing feedback to students.

• • Builds partnerships and collaborates with departments and with community partners to implement programs and initiatives that support student success.

• • Plans, develops, and delivers programs, training, services, and events that enrich student life, enhance the student experience, and facilitate student success.

• • Implements assessment, evaluation, and reporting processes to continually improve the programs and services offered to students.

• • Assists in developing, implementing, and evaluating academic success programs.

• • Creates lesson plans and support material for transition programs and camps.

• • Provide guidance to staff with developing and setting up course content, including audio, video, and graphic materials.

• • Creates promotional and educational materials.

• • Coordinates and uploads social messaging and website content.

• Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

Job Knowledge and Requirements

• • Practical and applied knowledge of specialized methods and processes that are typically acquired through a combination of technical or academic qualification and/or work experience.

• • Provide consultation and advice on non-straightforward and/or complex issues.

• • Interaction with others typically requires interpersonal skills and the ability to understand and influence.

• • Adapt messages to meet the needs of the intended audience.

• • Build relationships, trust and credibility.

• • Manage own work and may train and review the work of casual employees, work study students and/or volunteers, to see commitments through to completion.

• • Contribute to setting work priorities and direction, supporting the team in achieving goals and objectives.

• • Participate in project team meetings and develop individual project plans.

• • Lead procedural or technological change within a unit.
  • Identify new problems and seek information and input to fully understand the cause of problems.

• • Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of work processes.

• • Draw logical conclusions and provides opinions and recommendations.

• • Research equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion resources and best practices relevant to the job and unit operations in order to inform evidence-based planning.

• Commitment to principles of equity, diversity, accessibility, inclusion, Indigenization and human rights for equity deserving groups.