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title: 'Role Description: Operational Lead'

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# Role Description: Operational Lead

- **Title**
    - Operational Lead
- **Aim**
    - Monitor operations in alignment with the team's objectives
    - Maintain awareness of the team's desired future direction
    - Track tasks, assigned responsibilities, and upcoming decisions
- **Pay**
    - N/A
- **Time Budget**
    - 2 hr / week
- **Budget**
    - N/A
- **Tasks / Activities / Responsibilities** ([Related](https://partneringresources.com/wp-content/uploads/3-Jobs-of-the-Change-Leader.pdf))
    - **Accountability**: Hold team members accountable for their commitments by checking in on their progress and offering support as needed.
    - **Clarity**: Ensure clarity by helping team members define their roles, seek external assistance when necessary, and support any conflicts between colleagues.
    - **Attention and alignment**: Periodically evaluate the team's progress, identify any issues or obstacles, and initiate conversations to realign the team's efforts with its goals.
    - **Forward motion**: Encourage innovation by soliciting proposals, facilitating brainstorming, and empowering team members to take on new projects.
- **Experience** (required skills)
    - Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, emphasizing active listening and empathy
    - Proficiency in conflict transformation and promoting a collaborative work environment
    - Aptitude for strategic thinking and balancing big-picture perspectives with individual needs
    - Ability to prioritize tasks, delegate responsibilities, and ensure commitment follow-through
    - Comfort working with diverse groups and fostering an inclusive atmosphere
    - Knowledge of the relevant domain, as applicable to the team's goals and objectives
- **Authority, Limits on authority**
    - Cannot unilaterally make decisions or overrule team consensus
    - Must respect the autonomy and input of all team members
    - Participates in policy discussions as an equal, not wielding greater influence than other team members
- **Hand-offs with other roles and teams**
- **Reporting to the team / team lead** (what/how often)
    - Offer ad-hoc updates and insights on behalf of the team when necessary to address urgent issues or concerns
- **What measurements/feedback do we ask the role to track?**
    - Gather and analyze feedback from team members regarding team dynamics, effectiveness, and areas for improvement
- **Role held by individual or pair?**
    - Individual
- **How to create redundancy/succession plan/substitutes?**
    - N/A
- **Minimum/maximum terms**
    - N/A
- **Term** (next review date)
    - Establish as part of the selection process