Operations & Administration Manager

Events DC•Washington, DC

15h

About The Position

The Operations & Administration Manager provides advanced operational, administrative, and strategic support to the Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Culture and serves as the primary coordination and oversight resource across all functions within the HRC Department. This senior professional-level position performs highly responsible, confidential, and complex work requiring independent judgment, initiative, and leadership on behalf of the SVP. While this position does not carry formal supervisory authority, it operates as the SVP’s operational proxy — coordinating and directing the work of HRC Staff and Events DC staff on the SVP’s behalf, tracking completion, and ensuring accountability to divisional standards without holding formal people management responsibility. The position serves as the central liaison among HRC leadership, department heads across Events DC, Financial Management, and external partners to ensure that divisional priorities, projects, and budgets are effectively coordinated and executed. The Operations & Administration Manager exercises significant discretion, monitors the HRC divisional budget in coordination with People Operations unit, ensures compliance with established policies and procedures, and provides the operational infrastructure that enables the SVP, Human Resources & Culture to execute at the executive level.

Requirements

Advanced operational, administrative, and strategic support capabilities.
Ability to serve as a primary coordination and oversight resource.
Capacity to act as an operational proxy for an SVP.
Skills in coordinating and directing staff work.
Proficiency in tracking completion and ensuring accountability.
Experience as a central liaison among leadership, department heads, and external partners.
Ability to ensure effective coordination and execution of priorities, projects, and budgets.
Significant discretion in decision-making.
Experience in monitoring divisional budgets.
Knowledge of compliance with established policies and procedures.
Ability to provide operational infrastructure for executive-level execution.

Responsibilities

Provides advanced operational, administrative, and strategic support to the Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Culture.
Serves as the primary coordination and oversight resource across all functions within the HRC Department.
Operates as the SVP’s operational proxy, coordinating and directing the work of HRC Staff and Events DC staff on the SVP’s behalf.
Tracks completion and ensures accountability to divisional standards.
Serves as the central liaison among HRC leadership, department heads across Events DC, Financial Management, and external partners.
Ensures that divisional priorities, projects, and budgets are effectively coordinated and executed.
Exercises significant discretion.
Monitors the HRC divisional budget in coordination with People Operations unit.
Ensures compliance with established policies and procedures.
Provides the operational infrastructure that enables the SVP, Human Resources & Culture to execute at the executive level.