Chief Executive Officer (Volunteer)
Lead the execution of HIF’s strategy, organisational health and responsible growth under Board direction.
- Australia
- Hybrid
- 6–8 hours per week
- Senior executive / board-accountable
Explore HIF by team: each role family shows its accountable head, the specialist and delivery positions beneath it, and how every contribution fits into the wider organisation.
60 opportunities
Sorted by relevanceOrganisation-wide strategy, operations, finance, growth and governance.
Lead the execution of HIF’s strategy, organisational health and responsible growth under Board direction.
Turn strategy into dependable systems, realistic plans and coordinated delivery across HIF.
Build proportionate financial stewardship, reporting and controls for a growing volunteer-powered charity.
Create one disciplined portfolio approach across HIF’s prevention, education and community-health programs.
Help HIF make proportionate, documented decisions across charity governance, partnerships and cross-border work.
Ground HIF’s 2026–2030 strategy in health trends, organisational reality, partner priorities and measurable choices.
A problem-first innovation team connecting communities, evidence, partners and test sites.
Build HIF’s open network for universities, clinicians, students, communities and companies to test responsible health solutions in real-world settings.
Design useful, reciprocal relationships across universities, health services, startups and community organisations.
Find and assess technologies that could responsibly address validated HIF program problems.
Build a living catalogue of health problems, evidence gaps, current actors and implementation opportunities.
Facilitate rapid, structured co-design sessions that turn complex health challenges into testable next steps.
Evidence generation, evaluation and responsible decisions about what should scale, change or stop.
Lead the evidence, ethics and learning systems that turn promising ideas into responsible program decisions.
Strengthen the evidence behind prevention programs, needs assessments and program decisions.
Build practical measurement tools that connect volunteer effort to program need and community benefit.
Build credible ways to understand the social value, cost and opportunity cost of HIF programs.
Lead an evidence update for HIF’s hand-hygiene resources and behaviour-change concepts.
Map evidence, organisations and prevention models that help children remain safely in families and communities.
Support a rights-based assessment of institutional care, family strengthening and ethical HIF involvement.
Safe clinical oversight and delivery of HIF’s community heart-health work.
Set safe clinical boundaries and quality standards for every HIF health activity.
Provide independent, bounded clinical advice on program safety, evidence and escalation.
Lead safe co-design and readiness planning for community cardiovascular screening and education.
Support accessible cardiovascular risk screening and practical health education in community settings.
Build the evidence and evaluation plan behind HIF’s community heart-health concepts.
Volunteer experience, workforce systems, safeguarding and supported participation.
Build a fair, supportive volunteer lifecycle from workforce planning through onboarding, development and exit.
Give volunteers clear starts, useful support, manageable workloads and respectful exits.
Help create safer, clearer and more supportive systems for adult and youth volunteers.
Create a portable record of volunteer learning, contribution, safeguards and verified project outcomes across HIF.
Reciprocal partnerships, income development and the systems that make programs viable.
Lead an ethical, evidence-based approach to fundraising, grants, sponsorships and long-term partnerships.
Build ethical partnerships that strengthen programs without distorting community priorities.
Build a realistic grants and philanthropy pipeline around approved, costed HIF priorities.
Build respectful, well-documented relationships with community organisations relevant to approved HIF programs.
Keep finance records, reconciliations, evidence and compliance calendars complete and decision-ready.
Explore ethical, supervised university elective pathways connected to long-term HIF partnerships.
A coherent HIF identity, ethical storytelling and useful public communication.
Lead accurate, human and useful communication across HIF’s public channels, campaigns and partner relationships.
Build an accessible visual system for health education, digital products, campaigns and partner-ready resources.
Lead a credible HIF identity evolution across mission language, digital experience, campaigns, video and volunteer materials.
Make health information and organisational communication more accessible, accurate and useful.
Create concise, accessible video that supports health education, volunteer learning and transparent program communication.
Build a trained ambassador network that shares evidence-led health messages and opens two-way community dialogue.
Keep HIF’s public website and core volunteer systems secure, accessible, maintainable and useful.
Australian prevention programs, community partnerships and local delivery.
Lead a coherent Australian portfolio spanning heart health, sun safety, hand hygiene and prevention education.
Lead safe co-design and readiness planning for community cardiovascular screening and education.
Support an accessible sunscreen-kiosk and sun-safety education pilot in a community beach setting.
Shape an evidence-led, non-stigmatising prevention project with young people and relevant services.
Co-design practical hand-hygiene prompts and feedback tools that fit real settings.
Design a practical pilot that reduces avoidable healthcare waste without compromising infection prevention or patient safety.
Identify practical ways to reduce healthcare waste without shifting infection, safety or labour risks elsewhere.
Locally guided health partnerships, responsible travel pathways and service co-design.
Lead locally grounded partnerships and readiness planning for HIF’s Vietnam health initiatives.
Co-design a locally directed health partnership with Vietnamese professionals and community organisations.
Help Vietnamese partners test whether and how a mobile primary-care model could add sustainable value.
Register interest in future locally led international programs that meet HIF readiness and ethical-participation standards.
Community-led health education, vaccine-access research and partnership delivery.
Lead partner-defined health education, prevention and research planning with Tanzanian stakeholders.
Support Tanzanian partners to adapt practical health-education resources and youth-engagement activities.
Support a partner-defined assessment of vaccine-access barriers and appropriate next questions.
Learning pathways that prepare and support ethical, capable young health leaders.
Build a practical learning platform for ethical global health, public health methods, leadership and project delivery.
Design and coordinate the Health Equity, Advocacy & Leadership pathway for final-year secondary students.
Facilitate safe, thoughtful learning and project reflection for a small HEAL student group.
Create an equitable health-innovation challenge that helps young people move from problem insight to responsible testing.
Turn reviewed health evidence into concise, accessible education for HIF’s audiences and channels.
Specialist roles that work across more than one HIF team.
Explore a locally led multidisciplinary partnership focused on a verified health-system or community priority.
Produce a solutions-focused summit that connects problem owners, young changemakers, researchers and implementation partners.