Living Lab NetworkDemonstration listingHIF-DEL-HCRF
Health Challenge Room Facilitator
Facilitate rapid, structured co-design sessions that turn complex health challenges into testable next steps.
Location
Australia / online
Arrangement
Hybrid
Commitment
2–4 hours per week plus events
Duration
90-day pilot
Level
Student / professional
Contribution track
Deliver programs
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Role mandate
Facilitate rapid, structured co-design sessions that turn complex health challenges into testable next steps.
Why this role exists now
Health problems often have many stakeholders and no single owner; teams need a disciplined process that surfaces power, evidence and trade-offs.
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Outcomes you would own
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A current, approved workplan for the Living Lab Network contribution.
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Clear decisions, risks and dependencies recorded where the team can use them.
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A defined first milestone that passes HIF’s safety and readiness checks.
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Partner and participant learning translated into the next program decision.
Core responsibilities
Prepare stakeholder role cards, evidence summaries and session materials.
Facilitate respectful challenge framing, option generation and prioritisation.
Use the equity–innovation–sustainability matrix to make trade-offs visible.
Document decisions and support a minimum viable Health Challenge Room pilot.
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Your first 90 days
Days 1–30
Listen, learn and locate the work
Complete HIF induction, role boundaries and required checks.
Review the Living Lab Network brief, evidence, partners and unresolved decisions.
Agree a 90-day workplan, communication rhythm and escalation map.
Days 31–60
Build the first useful thing
Build or test the first delivery-ready program component.
Invite review early from the people who will use or be affected by the work.
Record changes, risks and decisions instead of hiding uncertainty.
Days 61–90
Deliver, learn and hand over
Complete the agreed first milestone or document why it should change.
Review progress against success measures with your supervisor.
Publish a next-quarter plan and keep files ready for another volunteer.
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What you need
Essential criteria
Facilitation, co-design, policy, public health or innovation experience.
Confidence managing disagreement without forcing artificial consensus.
Ability to distinguish evidence, assumptions, values and unresolved questions.
Desirable, not required
Workshop design experience.
Knowledge of systems mapping or implementation science.
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How good work will be judged
Success measures
Community and partner priorities remain visible in delivery decisions.
The work passes safety, supervision and readiness checks.
Learning produces a clear continue, change, pause or stop decision.
Decision rights & escalation
Set day-to-day priorities within the approved role brief and agreed hours.
Recommend changes to scope, timing or method and document the rationale.
Pause your own activity and escalate when safety, consent, quality or capacity is unclear.
Escalate budget commitments, external promises, partner agreements and material changes to Living Lab Program Lead.
Clinical, safeguarding, privacy and public-claim decisions remain with the named qualified approver.
Role boundaries
This is an unpaid volunteer role. It does not create an employment relationship or expectation of future paid work.
Do not represent HIF publicly, sign agreements or commit money unless authority is explicitly documented.
Use only approved systems for personal, partner or program information.
The agreed weekly commitment is a ceiling to manage, not a minimum to exceed silently.
This role does not provide clinical advice, diagnosis, treatment or unsupervised patient contact.
No travel is assumed. Any future travel would require a separate brief, risk review and written approval.
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Support, learning and wellbeing
Facilitator guide, rehearsal and co-facilitation.
Approved challenge brief and subject-matter advisers.
Structured debrief and participant feedback.
Scope and safety
Volunteers must not work outside their competence. Clinical, safeguarding and community-facing work requires role-specific supervision and escalation pathways.
Checks before you begin
Identity and right-to-volunteer confirmation.
One or two role-relevant references for leadership or higher-trust appointments.
Confidentiality, conflict-of-interest, privacy and code-of-conduct declarations.
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How selection works
Evidence to include
A short statement explaining why this role and HIF’s health-equity mission fit your experience.
One specific example showing how you handled work relevant to facilitation.
Your realistic availability against the published commitment of 2–4 hours per week plus events.
Any required qualifications, registrations, portfolio links or work samples.
Conflicts, access needs or support adjustments you want the selection panel to consider.
Selection stages
Eligibility and completeness review
Assessment against the published essential criteria
Structured interview or practical conversation, if required
Relevant reference, credential and safeguarding checks
Outcome, induction and role-specific onboarding
Final selection decisions are made by people. AI is not used to automatically reject applicants.