Career & Tools
UCSB's Student Mental Health Coordination Services and UCSB's Health & Wellness Department are each hiring for graduate student assistant positions. Both positions are 20 hours/week and involve work on various projects to support the respective programming of the two offices. Read on to find out more about these positions and how to submit your interest.
Health and Wellness Program
Vision Statement: Students are thriving because they learn, live and achieve in an environment where they feel a sense of belonging, connectedness, and personal impact. Students' health and well-being is embedded in the campus culture and valued as integral to everyone's success at UC Santa Barbara and post-graduation. Students are engaged in habits that strengthen their well-being, are compassionate people who advocate for the health of all individuals. Health & Wellness is committed to supporting a diverse campus environment. All of our events are open to the whole UCSB student body and we encourage everyone to participate in our services.
Health and Wellness Position: 20 hours/week to assist with various programs such as the UCSB Sleep Challenge, National College Health Assessment data analysis, outreach to graduate students regarding unmet health and wellness needs, and other research projects. See additional information below.
BASIC JOB DUTIES
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Assist Health & Wellness to develop or modify H & W programs, content, and messaging to best meet the needs of graduate students
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Outreach to graduate students to help understand unmet needs in order to inform program offerings
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Opportunity to facilitate H&W graduate student programming
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Provide some assistance to existing research projects and creation of reports to communicate results as well as inform programs:
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NCHA analysis and dissemination of results. Focus on Mental health, health equity, and wellbeing.
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UCSB Sleep Challenge- involvement in the research project and refinements to the program that meets graduate students' needs. (note: this research is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the educational modules on sleep)
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Meet with the supervisor as needed.
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Attend campus meetings and serve on campus committees.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
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Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
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Time management skills and ability to plan, and then be flexible.
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Contribute to Strategic Planning related to graduate programming.
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Collaborate with other campus partners.
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Supervisory skills working with undergraduates.
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Excellent writing, communication, and innovative thinking.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
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Strong public speaking skills
INTERNSHIP DATES and PAY RATES
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Internship (Fall 2021- end of June 10, 2022) $18/hr and 20 hours per week.
Priority for applications received by Friday, November 5
Apply on UCSB's Handshake: https://app.joinhandshake.
Questions: Sharleen O'Brien, SharleenOBrien@ucsb.edu
Student Mental Health Coordination Services
The Student Mental Health Coordination Services (SMHCS) office is the single point of contact for the campus community to report concerns about a student in distress or a student distressing others. As the department that collects all information regarding distressed student concerns, SMHCS Coordinators are able to construct a holistic picture of how referred students are functioning and connect them with appropriate campus resources. As a non-clinical office, SMHCS is able to collaborate with other departments on campus to provide coordination of care, interventions, social support, and follow-up services from a network of campus resources.
SMHCS position: 20 hours/week to assist the department with creating outreach templates, developing website updates, improvements, and content, analyzing departmental data, exploring internship models, and other projects. If interested, please contact Armando Flores, Director of Student Mental Health Coordination Services, AJFlores@ucsb.edu