Role mandate
Turn reviewed health evidence into concise, accessible education for HIF’s audiences and channels.
Why this role exists now
Short-form health content must be useful without becoming simplistic, alarmist or detached from local context.
All opportunities
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Health Education Content Producer
Turn reviewed health evidence into concise, accessible education for HIF’s audiences and channels.
- Location
- Remote
- Arrangement
- Remote
- Commitment
- 3–4 hours per week
- Duration
- Six-month content cycle
- Level
- Student / professional
- Contribution track
- Tell the story
Outcomes you would own
- 01
A publishable series with sources, reviewers and expiry dates.
- 02
Reusable content briefs for prevention and health-literacy topics.
- 03
A documented correction and update workflow.
- 04
Audience learning that improves the next content cycle.
Core responsibilities
- Develop content from approved questions, audiences and evidence.
- Write plain-language scripts, posts and resource copy.
- Coordinate clinical, evidence, accessibility and community review.
- Adapt one idea appropriately across channels rather than duplicating formats.
- Track corrections, review dates and learning from audience response.
Your first 90 days
Listen, learn and locate the work
- Complete HIF induction, role boundaries and required checks.
- Review the Health education brief, evidence, partners and unresolved decisions.
- Agree a 90-day workplan, communication rhythm and escalation map.
Build the first useful thing
- Develop and review the first audience-ready content prototype.
- Invite review early from the people who will use or be affected by the work.
- Record changes, risks and decisions instead of hiding uncertainty.
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.
What you need
Essential criteria
- Excellent plain-language writing or health-communication capability.
- Ability to work from evidence and preserve nuance.
- Respect for review, consent and accessibility requirements.
Desirable, not required
- Public health, clinical, journalism or education background.
- Video scripting, social or multilingual content experience.
How good work will be judged
Success measures
- Content is accurate, understandable and easy to act on.
- Sources and review decisions remain traceable.
- Engagement metrics are interpreted alongside quality and audience value.
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 Head of Communications & Public Engagement.
- 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.
Support, learning and wellbeing
- Named evidence and clinical reviewers.
- Templates, brand guidance and editorial coaching.
- No expectation to give individual medical advice.
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.
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 communications.
- Your realistic availability against the published commitment of 3–4 hours per week.
- 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.
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