Role mandate
Build credible ways to understand the social value, cost and opportunity cost of HIF programs.
Why this role exists now
HIF wants to connect resources to outcomes, but estimates must not turn uncertain impact into promotional certainty.
All opportunities
Impact & learningExpression of interestHIF-EVD-SROI
Impact & Social Return Analyst
Build credible ways to understand the social value, cost and opportunity cost of HIF programs.
- Location
- Australia
- Arrangement
- Remote
- Commitment
- 3–5 hours per week
- Duration
- Six-month framework build
- Level
- Professional / advanced student
- Contribution track
- Create evidence
Outcomes you would own
- 01
A reusable impact and value framework with evidence grades.
- 02
One pilot analysis showing ranges rather than false precision.
- 03
A transparent assumption register and data-improvement plan.
- 04
Board and partner reporting that connects cost to credible learning.
Core responsibilities
- Map stakeholders, outcomes, costs and counterfactuals for selected programs.
- Design proportionate SROI and cost-consequence approaches.
- Separate observed data from assumptions and scenario estimates.
- Support impact reporting for cardiac, education and innovation projects.
- Create sensitivity analyses and plain-language limitations.
Your first 90 days
Listen, learn and locate the work
- Complete HIF induction, role boundaries and required checks.
- Review the Impact & learning brief, evidence, partners and unresolved decisions.
- Agree a 90-day workplan, communication rhythm and escalation map.
Build the first useful thing
- Complete the first evidence synthesis, method or analysis.
- 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
- Health economics, evaluation, finance, SROI or impact-measurement capability.
- Strong quantitative reasoning and uncertainty communication.
- Independence from fundraising pressure.
Desirable, not required
- Health-service or not-for-profit evaluation experience.
- Sensitivity analysis or economic-modelling skills.
How good work will be judged
Success measures
- Decision-makers understand both value and uncertainty.
- No estimate is presented without its assumptions and sensitivity.
- The analysis changes resource or evaluation decisions.
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 Chief Financial Officer / Research Director.
- 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
- Program, finance and research inputs.
- Peer review before external publication.
- Clear separation between analysis and promotional claims.
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 evaluation.
- Your realistic availability against the published commitment of 3–5 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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