Work That Starts With Real People
Belmont Innovation Labs partners with communities, organizations, and institutions to design solutions to complex problems, not on paper, but in practice. Our work spans health and healthcare, culture and entertainment, and community thriving. We run discovery sessions with real stakeholders, co-create with the people closest to the problem, and move from insight to deployed solution through a disciplined four-phase process: Assemble, Discover, Design, Deploy.
Every BIL project runs with two essential roles: a Strategic Facilitator and a Project Manager. Together, they are the operational core of the work, one holds the room, one holds the plan. We're building our contractor network in both areas and looking for people who want to do this kind of work alongside us.
Roles are approximately 20 hours a week. Contractors must live in Middle Tennessee and be willing to come to Belmont University for regular meetings.
Strategic Facilitator
The Strategic Facilitator owns the room. In every session, discovery interviews, stakeholder workshops, co-creation working groups, the Strategic Facilitator holds the process so the Team Lead can hold the content. This isn't a support role. It's the craft of facilitation at its most deliberate.
- Co-designs and co-leads sessions across all project phases
- Holds process-neutrality when the Lead steps into the conversation as a participant or decision-maker
- Manages group dynamics in order to draw out quieter voices, balances dominant ones, keeps inquiry open
- Synthesizes in real time, reflecting the group's collective thinking back to itself
- Translates across disciplines so unlikely collaborators can understand one another
Project Manager
Project Manager
The Project Manager owns how work gets done. The PM is the connective tissue between every phase of a project standing up the infrastructure in Assemble, turning conversations into a usable record in Discover, sequencing the build in Design, and managing a clean handoff in Deploy. The PM is the reason the work is repeatable.
- Develops and maintains project plans, timelines, and task systems from kickoff through close
- Manages budgets, monitors scope, and flags risks before they become problems
- Coordinates across faculty, staff, students, external partners, and internal Belmont units
- Keeps project documentation organized and current in shared workspaces
- Uses AI and other tools to streamline what should be streamlined, so judgment time goes where it matters
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