Operations and Integration Lead

Transformations Community•San Francisco, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Transformations Community (TC) is a global network of researchers, practitioners, facilitators, and changemakers focused on navigating profound societal, ecological, technological, and institutional change. TC supports transformative learning, relational practice, and collective experimentation through various channels including conferences, collaborative initiatives, communities of practice, and inquiry spaces. As TC enters a significant 2026–2027 cycle leading up to its October 2027 conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, the organization is seeking an Operations and Integration Lead (internally known as Organizational Integrator). This role is crucial for enhancing the visibility, coordination, and continuity of TC's work, aiming to strengthen its operational backbone without compromising its lightweight, relational, and inquiry-centered culture. The core challenge is to make TC more reliable without increasing its operational weight.

Requirements

7–15+ years of relevant experience in operations, coordination, chief-of-staff, project/program operations, research center management, or mission-driven organizational support
Strong follow-through and attention to commitments
Ability to track multiple workstreams without losing the thread
Experience supporting a founder, executive director, principal investigator, or small senior team
Comfort working in ambiguity and creating order from incomplete information
Skill in building lightweight systems that people actually use
Clear written communication
Calm relational judgment
Experience with distributed or remote teams
Practical comfort with tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, project management platforms, shared dashboards, AI assistants, or lightweight automation tools
Interest in sustainability, systems change, organizational learning, research-practice networks, or related fields

Responsibilities

Build and maintain a lightweight operating dashboard across conferences, inquiry initiatives, communications, operations, hiring, partnerships, and field relationships.
Help clarify ownership, decision pathways, approval responsibilities, and escalation points across active workstreams.
Track active workstreams, owners, deadlines, decisions, follow-ups, and dependencies.
Translate strategic priorities into visible workstreams, decisions, dependencies, and next actions.
Ensure important meetings and conversations produce clear next steps.
Collaborate with the conference lead to make Santiago 2027 timelines, dependencies, communications needs, and decision points visible.
Support clearer handoffs to communications and web/technical team members.
Prepare decision points for the Executive Director by clarifying options, timing, trade-offs, and next steps.
Maintain simple records of key relationships, commitments, and follow-ups.
Use AI tools pragmatically for meeting summaries, task extraction, decision logging, document retrieval, and workflow support.
Help create a weekly operating rhythm that keeps the team aligned without excessive reporting.
Identify recurring coordination, communication, handoff, and visibility challenges and help develop lightweight solutions.