[Hiring] Campus Wellness Specialist @NavGurukul

Role Description

Student wellbeing at NavGurukul is not a side programme; it is central to what makes this model work. Students live, eat, and learn on campus together. Their health, sense of belonging, and ability to navigate stress directly shapes how they learn and grow.

You will travel across all 8 campuses, build direct relationships with students, and work with campus teams to create wellness systems that are practical, evidence-based, and sustainable. This is a ground-up, high-ownership role.

What You Will Do

• Student Wellbeing on Campus
  • Visit all 8 campuses regularly to understand student wellbeing needs and build direct, trusted relationships.
  • Offer unbiased listening spaces and use non-violent communication (NVC) techniques to support students through emotional challenges.
  • Design and run peer-support circles, reflection sessions, and wellness workshops tailored to each campus context.
  • Identify students in distress, including those quietly struggling, and connect them to appropriate resources through clear, low-barrier pathways.
  • Respond to emotional crises with sound judgment, drawing on legal, medical, and psychosocial considerations as needed.
• Campus Team Capacity Building
  • Train campus mentors and staff to identify and respond confidently to student wellbeing situations.
  • Support campus leads navigating complex student situations, co-regulating with them, not just advising from a distance.
  • Develop toolkits, guides, and playbooks that campus teams can use independently, so the system outlasts your visit.
  • Begin to build structured response plans that campus teams can activate during a crisis without waiting for you.
• Ecosystem Building
  • Identify and develop relationships with relevant local partners: hospitals, mental health professionals, local NGOs, community organisations, and government bodies.
  • Understand how different organisations can contribute to student wellbeing and coordinate collaborative referral pathways.
  • Maintain these relationships over time and help campus teams engage with them effectively.
• Systems and Learning
  • Build lightweight tracking systems to monitor student wellbeing across campuses over time.
  • Document patterns, insights, and what works, building NavGurukul's institutional knowledge on wellness.
  • Design and iterate on a NavGurukul wellness framework grounded in ground-level evidence.
• Community and Belonging
  • Facilitate community-building activities that strengthen student belonging and connection.
  • Support students in navigating interpersonal conflicts constructively.
  • Help campus teams build inclusive cultures that celebrate student diversity.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in social work, counselling, community development, public health, education, or student support.
• Demonstrated experience designing or facilitating group sessions, workshops, or peer programmes.
• Ability to work with young people from marginalised or first-generation backgrounds with genuine empathy.
• Comfort with frequent inter-campus travel; this is non-negotiable.
• Background in community psychology, social work, or emotional systems building is an advantage.
• Familiarity with mental health first aid, NVC, or trauma-informed approaches is a plus.

Compensation & Culture

• CTC is depending on experience. Travel and accommodation fully covered during campus visits.
• Compensation: Travel and accommodation across campuses is fully covered because that's where the work lives.
• At NavGurukul, CTC is dependent on interview evaluation.
• Everyone who joins us chooses to be part of a mission that creates real opportunities for young people who otherwise may not have access to them.
• Since we are a non-profit organization, our salaries are more modest compared to corporate roles. For some candidates, this may mean a 50–60% change from their current compensation.
• If our mission connects with you and you feel comfortable with this range, we would truly value the opportunity to work together.
• Bring more experience and a strong commitment to NavGurukul's mission, and we're happy to explore!
• We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences!