Network Coordinator

Transformations Community•Boulder, CO

13h•$65,000 - $75,000•Remote

About The Position

The Transformations Community (TC) is an international network of researchers and practitioners working on sustainability transformations under conditions of ecological, institutional, and social disruption. Here is a link to a video of our most recent gathering, TC25 in Johannesburg. TC is launching a new initiative called the Agora, a light-touch sensing and reflection infrastructure that helps the community stay oriented in a time of rupture. The Agora’s purpose is not to drive activity, but to support shared noticing and reflection across diverse contexts of transformations practice. The Inland Ocean Coalition (IOC) is a US-based network working to connect inland communities to ocean health through education, advocacy, and relationship-building. A core IOC initiative is the Ocean Ambassadors Program, which cultivates a distributed network of leaders who translate ocean issues into inland contexts and mobilize civic engagement and collaboration across regions. Together, TC and IOC are seeking one full-time Network Coordinator who will split their time evenly between these two complementary roles. This is a single full-time position intentionally designed as two parallel 0.5 FTE roles: ~20 hours/week as Network Coordinator for the Transformations Community Agora ~20 hours/week as Network Organizer for the Inland Ocean Coalition’s Ocean Ambassadors Network The two roles are distinct in audience and emphasis, but aligned in spirit: both focus on relationships, distributed sensing, and network coherence without heavy bureaucracy. While the position is structured as an even split over time, the exact distribution of effort may flex modestly across the year in response to rhythms in each network. This role sits at the intersection of practice-based transformation work and place-based environmental organizing. You will help build relational infrastructure that allows practitioners, from senior transformation scholars to inland ocean advocates, to stay oriented, connected, and effective in a time of social and ecological disruption.

Requirements

3+ years in roles involving network coordination, community organizing, or support of distributed teams or communities
Experience supporting ongoing participation and visibility across a network (e.g. tracking who’s engaged, what’s active, and where attention is flowing)
Hands-on experience working with shared digital coordination tools (e.g. ClickUp, Asana, Notion, Airtable, or similar) to help keep work visible and intelligible
Strong written communication skills, with the ability to summarize patterns or themes clearly for different audiences
Ability to work independently and remotely, managing your own workflow across time zones
Comfort working in loosely structured, evolving environments without needing detailed instructions

Nice To Haves

Experience in sustainability, environmental advocacy, systems change, or transdisciplinary research communities
Experience working across both academic/research and practice- or advocacy-oriented settings
Familiarity with ocean conservation, coastal issues, or transformation research fields
Experience in nonprofit, fiscally sponsored, or other mission-driven organizations
Experience working in networked or distributed organizational models

Responsibilities

Support distributed sensing across the community by helping lower friction for contribution and ensuring signals can move from individual noticing to shared reflection
Maintain relational flow among practitioners who interpret and refine emerging signals from the field
Maintain shared engagement and participation records (using ClickUp or similar platforms) to support Agora sensemaking and provide visibility into how participation across TC is evolving
Support the Executive Director and core collaborators by providing visibility into member engagement, participation patterns, and potential pathways for involvement across TC initiatives
Coordinate with Communications on public-facing reflections
Reflect regularly with the Executive Director on what is emerging and how the sensing infrastructure should adapt
Serve as a primary point of connection for Ocean Ambassadors
Support onboarding, ongoing connection, and light-touch convenings
Help ambassadors share stories, challenges, and learning across regions
Coordinate with IOC leadership and communications to strengthen coherence and visibility
Surface patterns, needs, and opportunities emerging from the network