Do you have a passion for health and wellness? Build your professional experience while developing your leadership skills to create positive change at SF State!
Be a Student Leader today!
Health Promotion & Wellness (HPW) Student Leader Program is a paid opportunity. Positions are open to currently enrolled SF State students and are NOT Work-Study jobs. There are multiple roles within different health topics at HPW. This program provides meaningful professional development training, networking, skill-building, work experience, and health education opportunities for SF State students. HPW Student Leaders' facilitate workshops, conduct presentations, develop new programs, lead marketing campaigns, and plan health and wellness events.
Requirements for all positions:
- Open to all current Undergraduate & Graduate students
- Must be in a good academic standing
- Commit to the entire academic year (August-May)
- Commit to working up to 15 hours a week ($20.00 per hour)
- Attend mandatory Friday Trainings from 10 am - 12 pm
- Attend a mandatory three (3) day orientation
Note: There may be delays with our Student Leader hiring this semester due to our move to the new Gator Student Health Center building in March. We plan to complete our hiring and inform all applicants no later than Friday, May 16th. Thank you for your patience and please let us know if you have any questions.
Student Leader Positions
Volunteer Coordinator
Working closely with the Lead Health Education Coordinator, you will have the opportunity to lead the HPW Ambassador Program, a student volunteer program that provides opportunities for SF State students to assist with health and wellness volunteer activities. You will manage the daily operations of the program as well as plan networking and social events. Promote and increase a sense of community on campus!
What you will do:
- Plan, coordinate, and lead activities and events for the Ambassador Program such as orientations, info sessions, volunteer activities, social events, and recognition events
- Lead personnel management (manage ambassador email account, respond to inquiries about the program and keep track of Ambassadors participation & hours)
- Manage the Canvas collaborative site by adding activities, reading activity reflections, creating zoom links, sending out emails, and etc.
- Collaborate with HPW team (pro-staff, student leaders, lead ambassadors and ambassadors) on HPW projects and outreach events
- Outreach to the SF State campus about the Ambassador Program and other HPW activities and events through in-person tabling and presentations
- Support staff with data collections, reporting, program logistics and other HPW projects
What it takes to be successful in this role:
- You are committed to learning and growing personally and professionally
- You take initiative and would like to develop your leadership skills
- You can manage multiple projects at the same time
- You enjoy or would like to develop your presentation, facilitation, and event planning skills
- You are organized, have strong writing skills and good communicator (ex: emails, phone, etc.)
- You are flexible, can adapt to changes easily and work independently or together as a team
- You are skilled or have some experience with software programs such as Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel & PowerPoint), Canva, GatorXperience, MailChimp and iLearn
- You have some experience with volunteer coordination and/or administrative work, but not required
- You are passionate about health & wellness, community service, volunteer work and community building
Sexual Health Education Assistant
By working with the Sexual Health Education Coordinator and fellow student leaders, you will develop and provide sexual health education, programming, and outreach to help foster and maintain a sex positive culture at San Francisco State University. You will also provide students with knowledge about and access to sexual health information and resources, both on and off campus.
What you will do:
- Assist in developing and facilitating sexual health workshops
- Develop inclusive sexual health education materials, including social media messaging, videos, and handouts
- Assist in ongoing assessment and evaluation to measure impact of sexual health programming and gauge campus interest and feedback for future programming
- Assist in distributing sexual health supplies to the campus, such as fulfilling requests for safer sex supplies, running and maintaining the Condom Cart, refilling campus condom dispensers, and distributing menstrual health supplies
- Collaborate with others within Health Promotion & Wellness, as well as campus partners and student organizations, on workshops, events, and other outreach opportunities
What it takes to be successful in this role:
- You are passionate or have an interest in inclusive sexual health education and reproductive justice
- You are prepared to work both independently and as part of a team on short-term and long-term projects
- You are comfortable talking about or discussing topics related to sexual health, sexuality, and sex
- You are open to and embrace diversity and inclusivity
- You are interested in developing your communication skills, both written and spoken, and practicing facilitating presentations and workshops
Web Assistant
Working directly with the Health Communications Coordinator, you will have the opportunity to maintain departmental websites, create and design new webpages, and assess and redesign old webpages. You will also have an opportunity to add GatorHealth & Well-being events to the SFSU University Calendar, and the SFSU Mobile App.
What you will do:
- Maintain Health Promotion & Wellness, Counseling & Psychological Services, Student Health Services, and GatorHealth (GHW) websites
- Create and develop new webpages and redesign old webpages with engaging layouts
- Monitor web accessibility for all sites
- Create accessible PDFs
- Develop and update GHW content for the SFSU Mobile App
- Develop and update GHW content for the SFSU University Calendar
- Track website key performance indicators (KPIs) and contribute to end of semester reports
- Assess and review all content before pushing live edits to websites
- Collaborate with HPW and GHW Teams on web and mobile app projects
What it takes to be successful in this role:
- You are committed to learning and growing personally and professionally
- You enjoy thinking of creative ways to design concise webpages that have lots of information
- You have experience creating and/or maintain a website with multiple pages and layouts
- You know and/or have experience with Program Management software, Google Analytics and UI/UX designs
- You have a strong attention to detail
- You like working independently without direct supervision on a day to day basis
- You are organized, like meeting deadlines, and a good communicator
- You have an interest in health and wellness
Marketing Coordinator
Working directly with the Health Communications Coordinator, you will have the opportunity to come up with creative ways to develop social media content for positive health behaviors. You will have the opportunity to develop marketing materials for HPW workshops and events, which includes social media marketing, designing email newsletters, and monitoring social media analytics. There will be opportunities for you to support general GatorHealth & Well-being (GHW) outreach campaigns by taking event photos and collaborating with GatorHealth & Well-being student staff to create wellness content for the SF State community.
What you will do:
- Develop and design engaging social media content that promotes healthy behaviors
- Create and maintain a bi-weekly email newsletter
- Actively promote events, workshops, and programs through social media and occasional in-person tabling events
- Schedule and monitor content on the HPW social media accounts
- Edit videos with provided video editing training
- Track social media key performance indicators (KPIs) and contribute to end of semester reports
- Collaborate with HPW Team and GHW on occasional social media projects.
What it takes to be successful in this role:
- You are committed to learning and growing personally and professionally
- You are interested in creating social media content and can effectively research positive health behaviors
- You enjoy thinking of creative ways to design
- You have experience using Canva and blogging websites
- You have made engaging IG Reels/ TikTok or have a passion to learn how to create IG Reels/ TikTok
- You like to stay up-to-date with what’s trending on social media
- You like working independently without direct supervision on a day to day basis
- You are organized, like meeting deadlines, and a good communicator
- You have an interest in health and wellness
Graphic Designer
Working directly with the Health Communications Coordinator, you will have the opportunity to create marketing materials, graphics, infographics, booklets, and digital assets for all of the Health Promotion & Wellness topic areas. There will be opportunities for you to support general GatorHealth & Well-being (GHW) outreach campaigns by taking event photos or collaborating on smaller GHW projects.
What you will do:
- Create, produce, and edit design projects that promote programs, events, workshops, campaigns, and resources
- Develop interesting and relevant design concepts, graphics and layouts
- Learn and create accessible PDFs
- Collaborate with HPW Team on design projects
What it takes to be successful in this role:
- You are committed to learning and growing personally and professionally
- You enjoy thinking of creative ways to design
- You have experience using graphic design programs such as Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), and Canva
- You are able to share a design portfolio with previous work examples or design homework assignments
- You like to stay up-to-date with the latest design trends
- You like working independently without direct supervision on a day to day basis
- You are organized, like meeting deadlines, and a good communicator
- You have an interest in health and wellness
Health Education Student Assistant, Mental Health
Working directly with the Mental Health Education Coordinator and fellow student leaders, you will assist and implement health education programs, events, and campaigns that spread awareness of various mental health topics. Focus topic areas are self-care, stress management, sleep promotion, and suicide prevention. The overall goal for mental health programming is to increase social support around mental health and mental health promotion in order to foster a community of caring, help seeking behavior, and a sense of belonging for SF State students.
What you will do:
- Lead and/or assist in mental health programs that include (but are not limited to) Wags for Wellness, Self-Care Stations, Tea Time Out, Finals/Midterms Programming and others
- Lead and/or assist in larger scale events like HPW’s Fun Fest and mental health awareness efforts.
- Facilitate mental health workshops for the campus community (student organizations, classroom presentations, staff and faculty, etc.)
- Develop mental health education content and media such as campaigns, social media posts, videos, brochures, flyers, etc.
- Assist with Active Minds, a student organization changing the conversation about mental health on campus (e.g. leadership support, liaison to HPW for collaborations)
- Collaborate with others within Health Promotion & Wellness, as well as other campus partners on community organizing/building, training and outreach opportunities
What it takes to be successful in this role:
- You want to shift culture on mental health, which honors diversity, inclusivity and cultural humility
- You are committed to learning and growing personally and professionally
- You are interested in running educational activities that build community
- You enjoy speaking and presenting in front of a group/audience
- You are organized, accountable, and are a good communicator (ex. email, phone etc.)
- You take initiative and would like to develop your leadership skills
- You work well in a team, as well as can work independently
- You enjoy creating content for different types of media (ex. Video, social media, etc.)
- You have a background, job or academic experience and passion in mental health, social justice and/or community-based work.
Nice to have (but not required): You are interested in bringing in your skills in the creative/expressive arts into this work. Experience or areas of study in mental health, psychology, public health/health education, ethnic studies, holistic health or related fields.
Student Leader Applications
The 25 - 26 Student Leader Application is now open! Contact Kim Nguyen, Lead Health Education Coordinator at kimn@sfsu.edu if you have any questions.