At a college or university, you coordinate wellness programs for the campus community — designing health-promotion programming, supporting students and staff, working with health-services and athletic-recreation partners, and the operational work behind campus wellness.
Days are a mix of programming design, event coordination, and steady cross-partner engagement — running workshops or events on nutrition, mental health, sleep, stress management, or related topics, working with student-affairs and health-services partners on shared initiatives, supporting students in informal coaching conversations. Program participation, student-engagement metrics, and partner-relationship quality tend to be the visible measures.
What surprises newer coordinators is the academic-calendar driven rhythm — campus wellness work concentrates around stressful periods (midterms, finals, transitions), and the role compresses dramatically during those windows. Variance across employers is wide: large research universities run with robust campus-wellness infrastructure; smaller colleges concentrate the work on a smaller team.
Folks who do well here tend to bring genuine care for student well-being, programming creativity, and the relational instincts that working with diverse student communities requires. CHES, NCHEC, or sector-specific wellness credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is modest pay typical of higher-education student-affairs work, balanced by meaningful impact on student communities.
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View all Personal Care roles →At a college or university, you coordinate wellness programs for the campus community — designing health-promotion programming, supporting students and staff, working with health-services and athletic-recreation partners, and the operational work behind campus wellness.
Median pay for a Campus Wellness Coordinator is about $61K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $37K to $111K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Speaking, Coordination, Active Listening, Social Perceptiveness, and Service Orientation.
Most people in this role hold a master's degree.
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 6.5% through 2034, with roughly 10,490 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Campus Director, Wellness Director, and Wellness Coach.
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