Bringing the Business Clinic to life:

• Support the Business Clinic director to actively pursue collaboration with faculty and industry partners to enhance the clinic's impact on partnering organisations as well as student development.
• Meet with Businesses to triage their business problem and ability of ARU Business Clinic to help them
• Identify local firms that work with or are interested in engaging to economically disadvantaged students. 

Program Development:

• Evaluate the current program offering that integrate academic theories with practical business applications.
•  Working with internal and external stakeholders to create business clinic marketing assets to foster student entrepreneurship and innovation

•  Work with the Business Clinic Director to build partnerships with regional, national and global businesses
•  Build relationships with regional businesses, charities, social enterprises and community organisations that can offer high quality, socially inclusive project opportunities.
•  Map employer appetite for working with diverse student groups and identify barriers to participation.

•  Implement tracking template in the university CRM to monitor business participation among different business types
  
•  Implement tracking template in the university CRM to monitor student participation among different demographic types.
• Ensure reports align with APP frameworks, enabling analysis of gaps in engagement. 

 The planning of the Business Clinic Launch event with a Business and student focus to include a focus on diverse founders:

•  Organise an event celebrating the launch of the Business Clinic
•  Include keynote speakers, panel discussions, and workshops that highlight issues of local business
•  Partner with organisations that support business growth and future skills development to enhance the event's impact
•  Identify speakers, including entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds.
•  Create marketing assets for the Business Clinic with accessible language, inclusive imagery and targeted messaging for APP priority groups. 

Student Hackathon:

•  Organise a hackathon which will take place in Q4 2026
• Work with the Business Clinic Director to identify business use cases that can be used for the hackathon
• Work with the Business Clinic Director to manage the relationship with Google on supplying the technology for the hackathon
• Make recommendations for the Hackathon marketing strategies to better engage economically disadvantaged students so that we make the hackathon as inclusive as possible

• Strong business relationship building skills
• Understanding of concepts relating to design, thinking and innovation in a business
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Basic data collection and analysis abilities
• Ability to work independently and manage tasks effectively
• Interest in social mobility, inclusive business practice or widening participation
• Attention to detail and problem solving mindset

•  Develop an understanding of event planning and process management
• Gain experience in data collection and analysis related to inclusivity.
• Enhance communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Learn to create reports and recommendations based on research findings.
• Build confidence in stakeholder engagement, including working with local businesses, external organisations, and diverse student groups.