Strategic Insights & Operations Coordinator

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  • Full-Time
  • On-Site

Job Description:

Team: Strategic Insights and Analytics Center of Excellence
Level: Junior (1–3 yrs experience)
Location: Islamabad (3 days in office; must work on US PST or EST hours)

Purpose
Operational backbone for the ~30-person SI&A team at one of our clients. SI&A is the consulting arm, we service clients with end to end market research services. Runs the recurring rhythms (timesheets, invoicing, PMO hygiene, hiring coordination, new-hire onboarding) and supports the Strategic Insights (SI) leader on ad-hoc ops work.

Responsibilities
Contractor lifecycle

  • Weekly timesheet reminders to the contractor channel; chase late submitters
  • Monthly invoicing reminders (around the 20th, second reminder around the 23rd)
  • Onboard project-based contractors: email, VPN, QuickBase access, welcome email
  • Track contracts across PandaDoc, Ironclad, and Drive; flag missing/expired

PMO & timesheet hygiene

  • Weekly Monday PMO end-date hygiene reminder to managers/directors; chase confirmations
  • Maintain the SI Line Item Repository in QuickBase
  • Own change-management comms when timesheet/PMO rules change

Hiring coordination

  • Manage the Ashby pipeline; weekly sync with TA lead
  • Confirm start dates, share candidate availability, schedule R1/R2 interviews
  • Send candidate case materials; keep hiring email and case templates current

New-hire onboarding

  • Build a tailored onboarding plan per new hire (one tracker per person, tab-per-level)
  • Recruit and coordinate internal session leads; merge sessions across hires when timing allows
  • Maintain the manager-onboarding checklist

Team comms & cadence

  • Prep logistics for the All-Hands and biweekly team meeting (incl. basic deck inputs)
  • Coordinate monthly team lunches and the L&D session calendar
  • Slack channel and team comms hygiene


Ad-hoc ops support

  • Direct support to the SI leader: Asana hygiene, sourcing coordination (e.g., multilingual moderators), workflow cleanup

Tools
Critical:

  • Google Workspace
  • Asana
  • Slack
  • Claude

Can learn:

  • QuickBase
  • Ashby
  • PandaDoc
  • Ironclad
  • Ramp
  • Rippling
  • Granola

Must-haves

  • 1–3 yrs in ops coordination, project coordination, or admin
  • Very strong written English; clean, friendly template-driven comms
  • Detail-obsessed; comfortable with repetitive recurring cycles
  • Comfortable chasing people for compliance without being annoying
  • Spreadsheet-fluent


Nice-to-haves: exposure to QuickBase or similar no-code tools, AI-curious