Wellness Advisor

At Concordia Plans we care for those who serve by providing excellent retirement, healthcare, and benefit services. The Wellness Advisor position scope includes advising and developing tailored multi-year wellness strategies that support workers’ physical, mental, emotional and financial health, while also enhancing productivity and engagement.

Concordia Plans has a reputation for outstanding culture, most recently winning the 2024 Top Workplaces USA award, with additional special awards for Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits and Purpose & Values. This honor goes to the country’s best employers with high performing people-first cultures. Our recent history of employment excellence also includes being awarded the 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, the Top Workplaces 2021 - 2024 St. Louis Post-Dispatch awards and the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition’s 2020 Business Health Culture Award. Established more than 50 years ago providing service in 6,000 communities throughout the United States, we are mission focused professionals united to care for those caring for our community.

At Concordia Plans we are focused and flexible. Embracing the new normal, pioneering ways to continue to support work life balance in our family first culture. We offer competitive compensation with a benefit package, including a pension plan, 403(b), health insurance at no cost to the employee, and much more. We offer a hybrid environment with three days on-site for leadership positions. With this exciting opportunity you can combine experience, talent, and passion as part of our team at Concordia Plans serving the workers of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod.

General Summary

The Wellness Advisor will be responsible for advising and developing tailored multi-year wellness strategies that support workers’ physical, mental, emotional and financial health, while also enhancing productivity and engagement. This role will work closely with LCMS Districts to develop scorecards, analyze data, recommend and set multi-year strategies and provide ongoing support to ensure programs are effective, measurable, and aligned with each District’s goals.

Essential Job Functions

• Responsible for wellness program strategy
• Partner with Districts to assess their health and financial data and identify gaps or areas for improvement.
• Develop customized health and wellness strategy using the Concordia Plans resources through the CHP and CRP based on the District goals, Ministry needs, and industry best practices.
• Responsible for strategy implementation and support
• Collaborate with Districts and other stakeholders to build and execute communication and education strategies to promote wellness programs and drive employee engagement.
• Develop or obtain educational materials, wellness guides, and promotional content to support wellness initiatives and increase participation.
• Support District needs at larger District wide events, conventions, meetings.
• Stay informed on emerging wellness trends, regulatory changes, and new technologies that can enhance wellness programs.
• Proactively researches and identifies wellness opportunities throughout the Synod.
• Serves as the primary resource for District contacts.
• Provides data analysis and program evaluation
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of wellness programs and their impact on employee health and organizational outcomes.
• Use data analytics tools to assess the success of wellness programs, including participation rates, District/Ministry/Worker feedback, health and financial data indicators.
• Provide Districts and ministries with actionable insights based on wellness data, helping them to refine and optimize their programs over time.
• Prepare detailed program reports, including metrics and success stories, to communicate the value and impact of wellness initiatives to stakeholders.
• Responsible for sustainability and long-term program success
• Provide strategic recommendations for building sustainable wellness programs that can evolve over time based on District, Ministry and worker needs.
• Develop metrics to track the long-term impact of District-level wellness programs on health outcomes, employee satisfaction, and business performance.
• Support CPS wellness initiatives, training, education and programs
  

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience required.
• 5 years of experience in health and wellness program design, consulting, or program management.
• Background in nutrition, fitness, behavioral health, or psychology preferred
• Proven experience developing and implementing wellness strategies, wellness workshops, training sessions, and health education to include virtual programs and remote engagement initiatives.
• Strong experience in needs assessment, data analysis, and measuring program effectiveness using key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Certification in wellness coaching, health coaching, or related disciplines a plus
  
  

Competencies

• Model Resilience: Leads with optimism and composure, setting the tone for others. Is self-aware, humble, and open to alternatives when challenged.
• Outcomes Oriented: Brings a bias for action and achieves meaningful, timely, and measurable results. Lives continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Strategic Thinking: Demonstrates sound judgment, discernment, and church/business acumen. Encourages new thinking and makes future-focused decisions.
• Consultive: Strong active-listening and problem-solving skills to identify opportunities, facilitating open dialogue and engaging others to recommend solutions.
• Influence Others: Is a positive influence across and outside the organization. Paints a compelling picture and gains commitment for forward momentum.
• Collaboration: Builds authentic relationships and harnesses the energy of others. Adapts interpersonal style and models productive dialogue and debate.
• Customer orientation: The ability and willingness to show care and concern while finding out what the customer wants and needs and to act accordingly in a timely manner, making the customer feel valued.
• Problem solving: Uses rigorous logic, systematic methods and analysis to solve difficult problems, able to exercise discretion and make decisions to resolve issues and questions, anticipates the implications and consequences of situations and takes appropriate action, is excellent at objective analysis, and asks questions, seeks answers and engages others in analyzing and developing solutions.
• Communications: Ability to articulate information simply and concisely in person, over the phone and in writing, and to reflect Concordia Plans values in all internal and external communications.
• Presentation: Has the ability to effectively communicate and share information in a variety of speaking situations, Develops engaging and creative formal presentations; skilled with a variety of presentation and communication formats.
• Trustworthy: Acting with integrity, being honest and credible, reliable, having positive intent, able to present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.