We’re Hiring: Project Consultant - Oversight of AI Companion Tools
Position Overview
Generation Patient is seeking a Consultant Coordinator to support a 15‑month initiative focused on increasing oversight of AI companion tools through a health regulatory lens. The consultant will work closely with the Generation Patient team and serve as a project coordinator and strategist, owning schedules, logistics, and partner engagement, while bringing an entrepreneurial, solutions-oriented mindset to a complex policy and youth engagement project.
Key Responsibilities:
Own and manage the master project workplan, serving as the central coordination point, tracking timelines for roundtables, written deliverables, dissemination activities, and federal engagement, and proactively flag risks or delays.
Coordinate logistics for virtual roundtables and convenings, including scheduling across time zones, managing invitations, preparing agendas, and supporting accessible, trauma‑informed participation for young adults with chronic conditions
Assist in planning and co-facilitating convenings, roundtables, and focus groups with diverse stakeholders, including youth with lived experience, clinicians, regulators, technologists, and child protection experts.
Support coordination and delivery of key project outputs, including a policy brief, youth-facing safety guide, and roundtable-driven recommendations.
Translate insights from roundtables and lived-experience engagement into structured inputs for policy outputs and youth-facing resources.
Support development and production workflows for policy-facing written products, including regulatory briefs, public comments, legislative testimony, and agency-directed recommendations related to AI companion tools and CSEA.
Maintain clear, organized documentation (notes, action items, decision logs) from meetings and roundtables, including documentation required for donor reporting and MEL tracking, and ensure follow‑up tasks are assigned and completed on time.
Coordinate inputs from core staff and consultants (e.g., policy, evaluation, mental health, safeguarding) to keep written outputs, evaluation activities, and communications products moving forward.
Support implementation of the dissemination plan, including scheduling federal agency briefings, congressional and multi‑stakeholder briefings, youth town halls, and digital outreach activities.
Work closely with leadership to track grant reporting requirements, compile data for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), and ensure documentation needed for funder reporting is collected on schedule.
Uphold and operationalize safeguarding and trauma‑informed engagement practices in all youth-facing activities, coordinating with external partners when needed.
Entrepreneurial Mindset:
Identify operational gaps and propose concrete process improvements to increase efficiency, inclusivity, and impact across roundtables, publications, and advocacy activities.
Anticipate emerging opportunities (e.g., new AI policy consultations, relevant convenings, media windows) and help the team rapidly adapt timelines and deliverables.
Work comfortably in a small, fast‑growing organization, taking initiative to own problems, test solutions, and iterate without extensive supervision.
Required Qualifications:
Demonstrated experience producing policy-facing written products such as regulatory briefs, public comments, legislative testimony, or agency-directed recommendations, ideally in health, technology, AI, or child safety domains.
Experience facilitating or co‑facilitating convenings, roundtables, or focus groups with diverse stakeholder groups, including individuals with lived experience of health conditions or disability.
Familiarity with trauma-informed engagement practices in research and/or policy settings involving vulnerable youth or young adults, especially around sensitive topics such as sexual exploitation, CSEA, and mental health crisis.
Strong project management skills: managing complex timelines, multiple stakeholders, and parallel workstreams, with a track record of delivering on schedule in a remote environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize technical and lived-experience inputs into clear, concise action items and timelines.
High degree of cultural humility and commitment to centering youth voice, disability justice, gender equity, and intersectional perspectives.
Preferred Experience:
Background in public health, health policy, social work, disability justice, digital rights, youth engagement, or a related field.
Experience working with or within federal agencies, legislative offices, or advocacy organizations on issues such as AI, digital health, child online safety, or CSEA.
Familiarity with AI companion tools, digital mental health tools, or online platforms used by young adults, and related regulatory debates (e.g., FDA, FTC, privacy frameworks).
How to Apply
Please email a single PDF including: your resume or CV (2 pages max) and a cover letter (1 page max) outlining your interest in the role, relevant experience project coordination, and any experience working with youth, chronic illness, or digital health/AI; Separately, one writing sample (3-5 pages max) demonstrating research, analysis, or policy related work.
Please use the subject line “Consultant Coordinator - Generation Patient - (Your Name)” and send your application to hiring@generationpatient.org by April 20, in one attachment. This position is only open to applicants authorized to work in the U.S.
AI usage for material submission is discouraged.
Contract Details:
Contract type: Independent contractor
Timeframe: April 2026 – June 2027
Compensation: $30,000 total for the duration of the contract
Level of effort: Part‑time, with periods of higher intensity around roundtables, publication deadlines, and federal engagement windows
Location: Remote, with virtual meetings aligned to U.S. Eastern/Central time; candidates in the U.S. are preferred
The application deadline is April 20, 2026. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, we encourage early applications.