Network Coordinator

Network Coordinator (Community Sensemaking and Coordination )

Transformations Community & Inland Ocean Coalition

Full-time (40 hrs / week)

• Remote (US-timezones strongly preferred)

Independent contractor position

About the Organizations

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.

Role Structure (Important)

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

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.

Part I : Network Coordinator — Transformations Community (Agora and Community Intelligence)

(~20 hours / week)

Purpose of This Half of the Role

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.

What You Will Do (TC / Agora)

Success looks like :

This is not a project management, program delivery, or engagement-growth role.

Part II : Network Coordinator — Inland Ocean Coalition

(~20 hours / week)

Purpose of This Half of the Role

As the Inland Ocean Coalition Network Organizer, you will support and strengthen the Ocean Ambassadors Program, a distributed network of leaders connecting inland communities to ocean health.

Your role is to organize, connect, and sustain this network by cultivating relationships, supporting ambassadors, and helping the coalition learn from and amplify what is emerging across regions.

This role is more outward-facing and action-oriented than the TC role, but remains grounded in relationships rather than top-down coordination.

What You Will Do (IOC)

Success looks like :

Requirements

Experience & Qualifications

Preferred (Nice to Have, Not Required)

Benefits

Why This Is a Unique Opportunity

This role sits at the intersection of practice-based transformation work and place-based environmental organizing. You will help build relational infrastructure that allows practitioners, from senior transformation scholars to inland ocean advocates, to stay oriented, connected, and effective in a time of social and ecological disruption.