Chief Operating Officer

POSITION: Chief Operating Officer

POSITION TYPE: Full-time

LOCATION: Remote

COMPENSATION: This position is a full-time salaried position with a salary range of $150,000-$180,000.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: November 1, 2024

PREFERRED START DATE: Early January, 2025

The organization is a non-profit working to build progressive power. The current COO is leaving the organization after the Election. The staff don’t know about the COO’s exit, so we are keeping the search confidential. Candidates will learn about the organization as they move through the process. 

The Chief Operating Officer will reinforce an ambitious and accountable organizational culture, effective team management, and project planning. They will also lead on organizational finance and overall people operations. 

The successful candidate has leadership experience in a growing tech or consulting firm in the political, civic or social sectors, including experience managing managers, and has strong experience with financial and HR management. 

Steps in the candidate process:

• Candidates apply
• Info call with recruiter from NRG Consulting Group
• Short written Q&A 
• Candidates who advance will be connected directly to the outgoing COO

Responsibilities:

Leadership & Management (50%):

• Acting as chief problem-solver to the CEO and VP team
• Working with the CEO to vet possible growth areas, and drive some forward
• Supporting team-wide & leadership meeting and strategic planning
• Managing staff/consultants including a director of human resources, bookkeeper & accountant, a fellowship manager and potentially others
• Reinforcing a coherent organizational culture, effective team management and project planning

Finance (25%):

• With support staff be a strategic leader guiding bookkeeping, cost and revenue projections, department budgeting, and margin management of our core business
• Supporting the fundraising team in increasing velocity and systematization of fundraising

• Oversee the recruitment, hiring and onboarding systems including a sizable fellowship of students or career-transitioners
• Implement DEI, skills, and other culture trainings
• Oversee staff conflict, mediation, performance improvement processes
• Work to identify new roles and help facilitate horizontal movement
• Oversee benefits, reimbursements, other staff policies, and answer questions from staff
• CRM implementation and usage, in coordination with CTO
• Support effective remote work and collaboration by guiding the organization's digital workplace

Requirements

• Fast-paced, exceptional intelligence
• Comfort with risk
• Significant political experience
• Leadership experience in a growing tech or consulting firm, ideally touching political, social or civic work
• Experience managing managers
• Experience with financial and HR management
• Highly quantitative mindset

Nice to haves:

• Experience working in strategy consulting, marketing or SMS
• Experience with management training or coaching
• Experience with political or 501(c)(4) fundraising
• Bay area modestly preferred

Benefits

Annual salary of $150,000 - 180,000 (this is the top of the organization’s salary range).

The organization’s employees receive excellent health, dental, and vision benefits, 401k, work-from-home stipends, and unlimited Paid Time Off. This position does not qualify as a bargaining unit position.

Applications submitted by November 1, 2024 will be given priority. This search is being run by NRG Consulting Group. Contact megan@nrgconsultinggroup.org and cc jobs@nrgconsultinggroup.org with any questions.