Impact Ops is hiring an Operations Intern

By Impact Ops @ 2025-01-06T15:04 (+21)

Impact Ops is looking for an Operations Intern to support its entity setup team with project management, workflow optimization, and administration.

This is a 3–6 month internship (timing flexible based on availability) starting in summer 2025. The salary range is £2,500 to £3,000/month, depending on prior experience and location. 

The deadline to apply is 16 March, 2025.

About Impact Ops

Impact Ops is an independent organization that provides operational support to high-impact nonprofits. Our services include finance, recruitment, entity setup, due diligence, ops audit, and systems implementation. We’re a “remote-first” organization with team members and clients based across the world.

We’re looking for motivated, altruistic, and optimistic people from diverse backgrounds to join us in this impactful work by providing excellent operational support to our clients. 

About the internship

Key responsibilities

• Supporting the entity setup team with project management and documentation
• Assisting in managing and optimizing workflows, ensuring efficiency across all operational activities
• Assisting project leads with administrative and logistical tasks involved in transitioning out of fiscal sponsorship arrangements
• Participating in client meetings and assisting with client communications
• Supporting diverse operational projects across the organization
• Researching and assisting in generating quarterly reports for various teams
• Helping to coordinate and organize team initiatives
• Providing support with additional tasks when working with various high-impact charities 

This internship offers a unique opportunity to grow professionally, collaborate with a well-oiled and competent team, gain behind-the-scenes insights, and explore diverse tasks to discover what truly inspires you.

About you

You’ll need to have:

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Proactive mindset with a “can-do” attitude, demonstrating the ability to take initiative
• Team player mentality
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively
• Interest in nonprofit operations and social impact

You’ll also likely have:

• Previous internship or volunteer experience: You have some exposure to professional or nonprofit environments.
• A tech-savvy mindset: You have some experience with various tools or are eager to learn (e.g., Airtable, Google Workspace, Slack, LLMs).
• Experience with working in diverse team environments: You’re comfortable collaborating with international teams and adapting to various cultural and professional contexts.
• An operations mindset: You’re naturally organized and enjoy creating efficient processes and solutions.
• Strong attention to detail: You identify and correct small errors to ensure precision and accuracy in a fast-paced and challenging environment.
• A love of systems: You enjoy thinking about how to make things run more smoothly and efficiently.
• An intrinsic motivation to have a positive impact with your career. 

Benefits and salary

Your starting salary range is £2,500 to £3,000/month, depending on prior experience and location. There may be flexibility in salary for exceptional candidates with significant experience.

Our benefits include:

• Prioritized health & wellbeing: We provide private medical, vision, and dental insurance. We also offer an allowance for you to spend on your mental health.
• Flexible working: You’re generally free to set your own schedule (with some overlapping hours with colleagues as needed). We’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one.
• Generous vacation: 25 days’ holiday each year (pro rata for shorter engagements), plus public holidays.
• Equipment to support your productivity: If needed, we can provide a laptop to enhance your work experience during the internship. The laptop will remain part of our equipment inventory, with options available should you wish to continue using it beyond the internship.

This is a full-time role, but part-time would also be possible for particularly strong candidates. We prefer candidates who can overlap with European timezones, but we’re open to other arrangements for exceptional candidates.

We are open to sponsoring visas in the UK for exceptional candidates.

Application process

Here’s a summary of the application process for a successful candidate:

1. Application: Submit an application form and complete a 30-minute test. Please ensure the application form is submitted by 16 March, 2025.

1. Screening call: Attend a brief screening call, where you’ll have the chance to ask questions about the role.
2. Assessment(s): Complete 1-2 paid assessments, designed to simulate the work you’d do if hired into the role.
3. Interview: Attend a remote interview with at least one of our co-founders to assess team fit.
4. Potential work trial: Potentially attend a paid, remote work trial — where you’ll spend the day meeting the team and completing further assessments.
5. References: Share references who can comment on your aptitudes.

We’re reviewing candidates on a rolling basis and may make an offer before the end of the application deadline. 

Thanks for reading!