Thank you for writing this. I work as an Operations Consultant and find that EA orgs use the term ‘operations’ to refer to roles and tasks that aren’t deemed as operations in my area of work. I definitely think a lot of the skills I’m picking up in for-profit operations are transferable to EA ops roles, but the core of the roles are quite different.
As Operations Consultants our aim is to make organisations more effective / efficient, eg. by:
There are really nice parallels between operations work and the fundamentals of Effective Altruism so I’m excited to see if operations as described in this post can have more of a place in EA!
Also happy to share more examples of typical operations work but think the above ones, and definitions, are good.
Sure! Here are some examples of high level questions you might solve as an Operations Consultant: