NuStart INtegrate Liaison — Role & Responsibilities

Purpose

The NuStart INtegrate Liaison is the hub of the wheel for the Champion network. The Liaison supports Champions so that Champions can support the staff in their buildings: organizing, communicating, and keeping the program running on a system rather than on any one person’s energy. The Liaison sits one layer back from the building floor; the leverage is in making sure every Champion is welcomed, trained, encouraged, and connected to what they need.

Position type and reporting

• A NuStart Health staff position (NuStart employee).
• Reports to a NuStart supervisor. Brings anything beyond what the Liaison can resolve to the supervisor, early rather than late.
• Works in partnership with building and district administrators and the Steering Committee.Works in partnership with building and district administrators and the Coordinated Health Council.

Core responsibilities

• Welcome, train, support, and celebrate Champions: onboard each named Champion, roll out and pace the training, encourage them through the year, and make sure their effort is seen.
• Drive engagement and participation: help each building lift staff involvement in challenges, Blocks, coaching, and events, and connect building efforts into district-wide momentum.
• Facilitate communication: draft and distribute the Monthly Champion Newsletter and keep clear, warm, timely messages moving.
• Run the district wellness meeting: convene and lead the Steering Committee and collect the building reports.convene and lead the Coordinated Health Council and collect the building reports.
• Manage the supporting documents: prepare and keep current the Building Resource Inventory, Pledge, Media Consent, Best Practices, and related forms.
• Present and track the Participation and Scorecard: share it at the start of the year and keep it current as a helpful mirror.
• Be the bridge to NuStart resources: connect Champions to the resource hub, ready-made content, and the wider team.

The rhythm of the year

• Before launch: welcome and onboard Champions, set the calendar, and prepare the supporting documents.
• Start of year: meet each Champion, present the Participation and Scorecard, and release the training (all lessons at once).
• Across the year: run the Steering Committee meetingsrun the Coordinated Health Council meetings, collect building reports, promote challenges, keep the newsletter and recognition moving, and meet each Champion again mid-year and at year-end.
• Anytime: point interested Champions to the six optional extra-credit Champion Lessons.

What this role is not

• Not the building-level doer. The Liaison enables and equips Champions rather than doing the building work in their place.
• When staff want one-to-one help, the Liaison points them to NuStart personal coaching.
• Not the enforcer. The Liaison provides light accountability (a helpful mirror), while overall accountability for a building’s participation rests with its administrators.