The Operations [Ops] circle's purpose is that the XR UK 2025-26 Strategy is successfully delivered to its fullest extent. Ops currently comprises of 11 sub-circles.
The SOS Coach role mandate is:
Purpose:
Coordinators (ICs and ECs) across the UK feel confident and supported in filling their roles in line with the SOS and/or self-organising parts of the Principles and Values.
Accountabilities:
- Supporting proposals for mandates to make them clear and simple, and to check their fit within the existing hierarchy of purpose. Providing advice and support on how to record new mandates on the Hub (using Group Admin roles and Group Admin permissions, as appropriate).
- Coaching in other aspects of SOS, such as our Constitution, decision-making, policies, tensions and any SOS aspects of conflict resolution.
- Collaborating with other circles and role-holders (e.g. Facilitation, Principles and Values) to provide multi-threaded support for healthy team relationships.
We look forward to hearing from you.
SOS Coaching Role Policy:
Meeting Attendance - a member of the Self Organising Systems team in the SOS Coach role regularly attends Hive, Ops and S&C meetings. This will vary depending on the capacity of the SOS Coach role. Capacity allowing, the general expectation is attendance of at least one of the super-circles per week. Ideally if there is capacity, there will be an SOS Coach attending each super-circle meeting at least once a week.
If there is a good reason (e.g. security) the SOS Coach can be asked by the IC of a super-circle not to attend a particular meeting. This should be the exception rather than the rule.
Advice and Decision Making:
The SOS Coach role can offer SOS advice at any time during a meeting if they feel it’s needed or helpful. However the SOS Coach role does not take part in decision making or elections in meetings of super-circles or sub-circles (except within the SOS team itself). The role does not take part in group discussions unless they are SOS related or they are asked to take part by a member of the team for a particular agenda item. If during a governance decision the SOS Coach role sees that the constitution or a policy is being broken, they do have the right of objection on those grounds during governance decisions.
Other Responsibilities:
The SOS Coach role is not expected to take on facilitation or other circle tasks. However, when a trained facilitator is not available they can facilitate a section of a meeting where a governance decision, an election, or a particularly difficult non-governance decision needs to be made, if requested to do so by another team member. The SOS Coach role can also suggest this if they feel it would be helpful.
Posted
Location
Hours per week
Positions available
Meeting Time
Meeting Format
Meeting Schedule
Essential Skills
Existing member of XR SOS team
Desired Skills
Strong interpersonal skills
Good communication and organisational skills.
