Network Coordinator

Network Coordinator (Community Sense making and Coordination
)

Transformations Community & Inland Ocean Coalition
Full-time (40 hrs/week)
· Remote (US-timezones strongly preferred)
Independent contractor position

The Transformations Community (TC) is an international network of researchers and practitioners working on sustainability transformations under conditions of ecological, institutional, and social disruption. Here is a link to a video of our most recent gathering, TC25 in Johannesburg.

TC is launching a new initiative called the Agora, a light-touch sensing and reflection infrastructure that helps the community stay oriented in a time of rupture. The Agora’s purpose is not to drive activity, but to support shared noticing and reflection across diverse contexts of transformations practice.

The Inland Ocean Coalition (IOC) is a US-based network working to connect inland communities to ocean health through education, advocacy, and relationship-building. A core IOC initiative is the Ocean Ambassadors Program, which cultivates a distributed network of leaders who translate ocean issues into inland contexts and mobilize civic engagement and collaboration across regions.

Together, TC and IOC are seeking one full-time Network Coordinator who will split their time evenly between these two complementary roles.

This is a single full-time position intentionally designed as two parallel 0.5 FTE roles:

• ~20 hours/week as Network Coordinator for the Transformations Community Agora
• ~20 hours/week as Network Organizer for the Inland Ocean Coalition’s Ocean Ambassadors Network

The two roles are distinct in audience and emphasis, but aligned in spirit: both focus on relationships, distributed sensing, and network coherence without heavy bureaucracy. While the position is structured as an even split over time, the exact distribution of effort may flex modestly across the year in response to rhythms in each network.

(~20 hours/week)

This role supports the Transformations Community as a living network, with the Agora serving as a central sensing and reflection function within a broader ecosystem of member engagement.

The Agora is designed as a collective antenna, not a hub of activity. In this role, you help ensure that useful signals from across the community are surfaced, filtered, and interpreted, while also maintaining visibility into who is engaged and how participation is evolving across TC more broadly.

You will work closely with the Executive Director and Communications Lead to steward both the relational flow of the community and the informational backbone that allows TC to mobilize participation, identify opportunities, and adapt its initiatives without heavy bureaucracy.

• Support distributed sensing across the community by helping lower friction for contribution and ensuring signals can move from individual noticing to shared reflection
• Maintain relational flow among practitioners who interpret and refine emerging signals from the field
• Maintain shared engagement and participation records (using Click Up or similar platforms) to support Agora sense making and provide visibility into how participation across TC is evolving
• Support the Executive Director and core collaborators by providing visibility into member engagement, participation patterns, and potential pathways for involvement across TC initiatives
• Coordinate with Communications on public-facing reflections
• Reflect regularly with the Executive Director on what is emerging and how the sensing infrastructure should adapt

Success looks like:

• Useful signals surface without pressure or overproduction
• Patterns of practice across diverse contexts become easier to name
• The Agora feels present, coherent, and supportive without becoming heavy or directive
• TC leadership has a clear, shared picture of who is engaged in the community, how participation is evolving, and where relational capacity exists to support new or emerging efforts

This is not a project management, program…