About XRUK Operations [Ops]

Ops' purpose is to deliver the XRUK strategy and the team is responsible for much of the work being done by the XRUK teams.

• It is a large team - a typical meeting has up to 16 people.
• Its priorities are largely dictated directly by the XRUK strategy.
• Its accountabilities are mostly delegated to its subcircles.
• It spends the majority of XRUK’s budget.

About the IC role

The Internal Coordinator(s) role is to ensure the team is healthy and achieving its mandate

• Designing the best team structure, mandates and policies to deliver the strategy
• Turning the strategy into an operational plan
• Defining and regularly reviewing the priorities of each subcircle; supporting them to deliver
• Protecting the positive and professional culture of the circle
• Deciding the meeting agendas and maintaining minutes and action points
• Maintaining good governance, and supporting subcircles to do the same
• Monitoring and reporting progress to the Hive
• Collaborating with Systems & Cultures to embed their work into Ops
• Working closely with the Strategy team

Skills needed

• Team leadership including conflict resolution
• Strategic and flexible thinking
• Experience in XRUK ('central') circles
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Planning and coordination
• Good understanding of our SOS and Ways of Working

Time commitment

The Ops IC role is a big job - close to a full-time role - and can work well as a role share between two people.

Ops meets twice a week - Mondays 14:30-16:30 and Fridays 12:30-13:30 and the ICs also have regular (weekly or fortnightly) coordinator meetings with the Coordinators of each of the subcircles, plus link roles. This can mean up to 15 hours of online meetings a week .

Elections are scheduled for the 31st March.

For more information on the mandates, please select the links below:

Operations' mandate

Internal Coordinator mandate NB click on the plus sign next to Internal Coordinator.

We look forward to hearing from you.