Job Description
Tarbell is hiring a motivated individual to lead their operations team as a senior or junior version of this role – an Operations Manager / Operations Associate respectively.
Overview:
- Full-time position
- Language: English
- Location: London (preferred) / Remote
- Salary: $75,000 – $100,000 per year
- Start date: September 2024 (flexible)
- Application expires: 7th of July, 2024
Job Description
As Operations Manager, you’ll be responsible for implementing and improving Tarbell’s operational and administrative processes.
Responsibilities might include:
- Manage HR & legal processes within the organisation. You’ll develop employee contracts, design staff policies, and manage onboarding for new employees.
- Grant administration. Coordinating with placement organisations and grant recipients on outgoings grants. You’ll conduct relevant due diligence and disburse grants in a timely manner.
- Financial management of Tarbell. This includes organisational budgeting, expenditure forecasting, and ensuring compliance with regulations and accounting standards.
- Organising Tarbell events, especially our annual Oxford Summit. You’ll select a venue, liaise with speakers, book travel & accommodation, and generally ensure that invited journalists have an outstanding experience.
- Communications. Curating a monthly Tarbell newsletter for 1,000+ subscribers and running our social media channels. You’ll promote the work of Tarbell Fellows and help attract journalists that we can support via our programmes.
We offer a range of benefits, and you can see them in more details here.
Role Requirements
You might be a particularly good fit for this role if you are:
- Experienced in operations roles. For the Operations Manager role, we are primarily interested in candidates with at least 5 years of relevant experience. For the Operations Associate role, we are open to candidates with much less experience.
- Organised and competent at project management. We are looking for someone with experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders. You should feel confident with goal-tracking, system-building, and keeping teams on track to meet ambitious deadlines.
- Excellent at prioritising tasks. You thrive in work environments with high task volumes and are adept at switching contexts. Experience working in a small team / startup environment is desirable but not essential.
- Excited about optimising systems and eliminating inefficiencies. You likely have a systems mindset, stepping back from individual tasks to envision the overall system.
- Highly autonomous and proactive. You can excel with relatively little supervision almost immediately. We’re excited to find a proactive self-starter to join our team.
- Calm and resilient. You remain focused and solution-oriented in fast-paced situations.
- Passionate about reducing risks from artificial intelligence. Ideally, you will have a strong understanding of AI, or the ability to learn this quickly (e.g. you can explain concepts like gradient descent, responsible scaling practices, and dangerous capabilities evaluations).
- Ideally, familiarity with newsrooms and journalism. While not a fixed requirement, a solid understanding of the journalism industry will be a strong plus.
We encourage speculative applications; we expect many strong candidates will not meet all of the criteria listed here.
How to apply?
Submit your application form by 7th of July with your resume/CV. We’ll be conducting rolling interviews, so apply earlier to be considered sooner.
Successful candidates will be invited to complete a 15 to 30-minute automated interview via Hireflix, and an 1.5 hour work task. We will reimburse candidates $40/hour for time spent on work tasks.
Candidates who successfully complete interview and the task, will do a 60-minute interview with a member of a Tarbell team. After that, chosen candidates will do a 2-day work trial with our team (in-person in London strongly preferred). In addition to $750 compensation, we will cover travel and accommodation costs.