POSITION SUMMARY:

Accountable for student recruiting, increasing the diversity of the student body, retention activities for minority students, preparation and dissemination of information on the public health profession and on educational and career training opportunities available through the SPH degree programs, and preparation of substantive reports for both internal and external consumption.

POSITION KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1. Assists faculty with efforts to increase its proportion of ethnic minorities.
2. Designs, prepares and distributes informational materials on the School of Public Health.
3. Designs and produces displays for professional meetings.
4. Prepares reports on minority affairs for internal and external consumption.
5. Participates in activities of academic and professional organizations and the U.T. System
6. Serves as one of two liaisons between SPH and alumni.
7. Makes presentations on educational and career opportunities in public health to various groups.
8. Organizes and coordinates SPH campus visits by students and faculty from area schools.
9. Counsels prospective students, and represents the School at college and university graduate/professional school days.
10. Efforts to increase the enrollment of ethnic minorities include the above activities performed at institutions with significant minority enrollment; review of all minority applications; and, where appropriate, services as an advocate during the admissions process.
11. Assists faculty search committees by contacting appropriate individuals, institutions, and organizations to obtain the names of potential minority candidates, and by providing information on minority oriented publications for placement of advertisements.
12. Serves as the Chair of the Minority Affairs Council (MAC) and, as such, plans and coordinates support services designed to increase retention and graduation rates of minority students. These services include organizing fall and spring semester seminars on academic skills and on minority related public health issues; providing staff support for the design and implementation of credit courses on multicultural health and policy issues; organizing social events which allow minority students and SPH faculty to interact in a non-classroom setting; and raising funds to cover annual minority scholarship.
13. Coordinates the bi-annual revision of the School catalogue; prepares and revises, as necessary, the public health chapter of the Texas Association of Advisors to the Health Professions Handbook; designs and produces discipline and module brochures; and ensures the production of specialty print material as needed.
14. Designs and produces exhibits for the professional association annual meetings; coordinates booth rental, transportation, and staffing of exhibit booth; and for extends invitations to SPH alumni for related events. 
15. Reviews SPH minority affairs sections of the HSC Strategic Plan, the Texas Plan, UTHHSC management reports, and the UT System recruiting and minority recruiting report. 
16. Handles Alumni Association finances, assists with the alumni newsletter and with the annual Alumni Association Reunion and Forum.
17. Responsible for the design, execution and effectiveness of a system of internal controls which provides reasonable assurance that operations are effective and efficient, assets are safeguarded, financial information is reliable and compliant with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
18. Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree in Public Health or its equivalent; Master degree preferred.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:

List minimum experience, which candidates will need to be considered for the position.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

For classified positions, insert one of the 5 lifting statements that were requested by UT Health Services for sedentary, light, medium, heavy or very heavy work. Human Resources, compensation area will assist.

SECURITY SENSITIVE: 

This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education
Code § 51.215.