Operations Lead — Sacramento Creek Ranch

Operations Lead — Sacramento Creek Ranch

Reports to: Executive Director

Compensation: $52,951 – $61,344/annually

Benefits: ICHRA contribution, PERA Retirement, paid days off, most Fridays off

Location: Stationed at Sacramento Creek Ranch, occasional travel necessary

Status: Full-time, ~ 185 days

Run operations across the school. Anchor Sacramento Creek Ranch.

HRCS needs one steady, capable person to own the school’s behind-the-scenes operations and give the Executive Director a true right hand – an operations position for someone we can lean on and develop toward office-manager and business-operations work over time.

This is one of two operational roles for 2026–27, and the two are built the same way. Each role is split in half. One half is identical across both positions: each person is the day-to-day operations and health-tech point person for their own campus — the Operations Lead at Sacramento Creek Ranch, the Registrar & Family Coordinator  other half is network-wide and unique to each role: the Operations Lead owns business operations for the whole school (vendors, procurement, and HR/people-operations support across both sites, plus direct support to the Executive Director), while the Registrar & Family Coordinator owns enrollment and family communication for the whole school.

The two work in close partnership and cover for each other when needed.

• Own vendor management across the network: source, set up, and oversee vendors and service contracts for both campuses.
• Run procurement and purchasing systems school-wide: ordering standards, accounts, inventory practices, and spend tracking that both sites rely on.
• Manage the school’s single PO box and incoming mail; and make bank deposits.
• Provide people-operations support across all sites: hiring and onboarding logistics, paperwork, benefits-administration support, absence tracking and personnel recordkeeping.
• Take on increasing business-operations responsibility over time — basic budget tracking, vendor negotiation, and systems — as the role grows.

• Provide direct administrative support to the Executive Director: scheduling, correspondence, document management, and general day-to-day support.
• Help prepare for, attend and document meetings with the Executive Director as needed to support school initiatives.
• Help prepare board-meeting logistics and materials in coordination with the Executive Director, attend all board meetings and take minutes.

• Be the day-to-day go-to person at Sacramento Creek Ranch — the one teachers radio and parents find when something needs to happen.
• Manage facilities, maintenance, and cleaning at the site — coordinating and overseeing vendors and the work, not personally doing every task.
• Keep the site stocked: place and receive supply orders, track inventory and consumables, and keep classrooms and common spaces ready.
• Receive and handle direct deliveries to the site (packages, couriers, vendor drop-offs).
• Help make sure students have enough to eat during the day (HRCS has no formal food-service program at this time; this may be added in the future).
• Provide daily on-site coverage; support event and celebration logistics, working with parent volunteers.

• Serve as the designated on-site health responder at your campus — first aid, caring for ill or injured students, and contacting families as needed.
• Administer student medications and maintain accurate medication logs, under the delegation and supervision of the school nurse.
• Maintain student health records and immunization compliance, and help coordinate required screenings (vision, hearing) with the part-time School Nurse.
• Coordinate with the school nurse on care plans, and with the Instructional Anchor when a health situation affects the academic day.
• Complete and keep current the required Colorado health-tech training: delegated nursing tasks, medication administration, and CPR/First Aid certification.

• Is highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to juggle competing priorities without dropping things.
• Takes ownership — sees what needs doing and handles it, and can be trusted to run the building and the school’s operational systems.
• Communicates clearly and works well alongside the Executive Director, teachers, and families.
• Manages vendors, procurement, and HR paperwork rather than getting buried in them; comfortable learning budgets, spreadsheets, and new systems.
• Is willing to become (or already holds) Colorado health-tech certification, including medication administration and CPR/First Aid.
• Believes in HRCS’s mission of outdoor, community-centered learning.