Strategic Insights & Operations Coordinator
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