The PSU Center for Student Health and Counseling (SHAC) is a nationally accredited healthcare facility that offers medical, counseling, dental, health promotion/education, and confidential advocacy services to students of Portland State University. The center consists of over 100 clinical and administrative staff, and there are currently 16,800 students eligible to use SHAC services.

SHAC strives for inclusive and equitable hiring practices. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our healthcare team. All SHAC staff participating on search committees have completed PSU's Inclusive Hiring Workshop.

The Marketing, Outreach, and Communications Coordinator in the Center for Student Health & Counseling (SHAC) at Portland State University (PSU) provides strategic direction, planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive marketing and communication strategies and initiatives utilizing best practices for SHAC within the university setting.

This position is also responsible for envisioning events and promotions that best support and promote the services and mission of SHAC; identifying learning outcomes for events and implementing appropriate assessment; recruiting, mentoring and coaching SHAC staff-volunteers; overseeing all event planning, logistics and implementation; and handling all publicity related to each event.

This position will initiate, build and maintain relationships with faculty, departments and community partners through co-sponsoring and co-planning events, formal and informal communication, and by direct outreach. This includes event coordination, coalition building, meeting facilitation, communication, assessment, and adhering to the allocated SHAC marketing budget.

This position handles all SHAC publicity, including event promotion, as well as overseeing the design of all SHAC promotional materials, forms, website design and presentation, and social media accounts. This position will use appropriate evaluative strategies to measure the efficacy of SHAC's marketing and promotional outreach. Successful completion of a background check is required.

In accordance with the AAUP collective bargaining agreement this position is open only to current PSU AAUP academic professionals. Article 17 Section 11 refers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19oNDP2hCMsKTq20713GYnnxxiv_vExXu/view

Bachelor's Degree with 3+ years of experience in an appropriate area of specialization.

Master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization such as marketing, communications, advertising, public relations, health communication or related field.

Media platforms, Adobe Creative Suite, website editing, and other digital communication and marketing tools

Contributes to a culture of environmental stewardship, practices resource conservation, and actively works toward achieving long-term sustainability goals.

The starting salary rate for this position will be between $58,596 $72,468. The starting salary may be negotiable above this range, however, it will be dependent upon the knowledge, experience, skills and abilities of the chosen candidate, the budget of the hiring department, and approval from HR.

PSU's excellent benefits package includes 95% premium paid healthcare; a generous retirement and vacation package; and reduced tuition rates for employee, spouse or dependent at any of the Oregon Public Universities. Please visit our total compensation calculator to see the full value of our benefits package: https://www.pdx.edu/human-resources/psu-total-compensation-calculator