Semel Healthy Campus Initiative GSR Opportunity

MindWell Graduate Student Researcher

(Up to 50% Time - 20 hours/week)

Job Description: Semel HCI Graduate Student Researcher for the MindWell Pod 

Summary Statement 

The goal of the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative (HCI) Center at UCLA is to improve the health and well-being of the UCLA community through the development of new ideas and expansion of existing programs in education, service, and research. Semel HCI aims to enhance well-being through the work of thematic groups, called “pods”: BEWell, BreatheWell, EatWell, EngageWell, MoveWell, MindWell, and ResearchWell. Learn more here: https://www.healthy.ucla.edu/ 

MindWell Pod 

The MindWell pod promotes psychological well-being, resilience, mental health and positive psychology at UCLA. MindWell achieves this by sharing and promoting resources and content on these topics, developing interventions, activities and events to enhance psychological well-being for the UCLA community, as well as directing students, staff and faculty to tangible resources to help improve psychological well-being and mental health. Learn more here: https://mindwell.healthy.ucla.edu/

This position will be for the Fall 2022 until Spring 2023 - October 1st, 2022 until June 30, 2023 

Supervision 

The MindWell GSR is supervised by Pod Co-Leaders, Dr. Nicole Green (Executive Director of UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services) and Dr. Robert Bilder (Chief, Division of Psychology; UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine; Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA), to coordinate events, problem solve, develop written and audio-visual content, and conduct research. 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Meetings:
• Weekly meetings with Pod Co-Leaders
• Participate in biweekly GSR meetings 
• Attend Semel HCI Steering Committee meetings 
• Event Planning:
• Coordinate logistics of monthly pod meetings including scheduling meeting dates/times and arranging for appropriate logistics  
• Plan MindWell’s yearly celebration of Eudaimonia 
• Maintenance of Google Account:
• Overseeing email communications, and maintaining and updating email listserv, google groups and google drive files
• Website Maintenance/Social Media:
• Ensure the website reflects up-to-date information about events, links and other highlighted resources 
• Submit content to Social Media Coordinator about events/announcements for Twitter, Facebook, & Instagram once a week
• Writing: 
• Write the MindWell section of the annual Semel HCI Progress Report with and under the direction of Pod Leaders
• Develop website content including but not limited to blogs on psychological well-being 
• Research: 
• Coordinate and support pod research efforts, assist with the design of evaluation plans and with the IRB application process (if needed) 
• All GSRs are required to undertake a research project under the mentorship and supervision of their Faculty Pod Leader which advances their personal goals as well as the goals of their pod 
• Team player: 
• Discuss and collaborate with other pods on events, projects, and other tasks 
• Table events for other pods and Semel HCI 
• Communication and Outreach: 
• Communicate professionally via email or in-person with stakeholders 
• Develop, share, and update pod outreach materials (i.e. handouts, flyers) 

Qualifications

• Full-time UCLA graduate student 
• Self-motivated, self-starter, takes initiative and comfortable with working independently 
• The ideal candidate will have strong interest and/or demonstrated experience in: 
• Psychological well-being, mental health, positive psychology 
• Reducing stigma associated with mental illness 
• Interventions to enhance well-being at individual, group and community levels 
• Event organization and planning 
• Design and implementation of new programs 
• Creation and delivery of information content, including written and audio-visual, to university campus stakeholders (students, staff, faculty) 
• Bachelor’s Degree in health-related discipline; Psychology major/minor would be a plus! 
• Experience in organization of meetings, events, information campaigns etc. 
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills 
• Experience in research (reviewing scientific literature, extracting key findings) would be a plus 

Please email and submit your resume and cover letter to MindWell (mindwell@ucla.edu) if you have any questions or would like to be considered for the role.