Director of Operations

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About the Organization

Fish Welfare Initiative is an animal welfare organization that focuses on one of the most numerous and neglected groups of farmed animals: fishes.

We work to improve fish welfare by developing and implementing scalable, cost-effective, and evidence-based interventions. Our main program, the Alliance for Responsible Aquaculture (ARA), collaborates with fish farmers in Andhra Pradesh to improve water quality and reduce stocking densities. Alongside this, our Research & Development (R&D) department explores new interventions to identify the most effective ways to help fishes.

Right now, we are in an intervention-development phase—running one core program while conducting research to determine the best strategies for large-scale impact.

Job Description

The Director of Operations oversees the Operations Department, which ensures that all aspects of our organization function smoothly and efficiently. In addition to general operations and HR work, this role will be tasked with maintaining a number of key relationships, as well as giving input on FWI’s general programming and strategy.

This role reports to the Executive Director and will be part of FWI’s leadership team. You will play a key role in shaping the organization’s direction and advancing fish welfare in India.

Job Responsibilities

Oversee FWI’s operations and legal compliance in India.

• Departmental oversight: Oversee our operations department (currently 3 staff members) to ensure that all work is completed to a high standard. Operations department tasks include payroll, reimbursement, contracts, hiring, office management, vendor relations, etc.
• Legal: Lead FWI’s legal compliance in India.

Serve as a leader in the organization

• Staff support: Support the professional development and overall welfare of our team in India and address specific issues and concerns.
• Programmatic consultation: Provide input and support to other programs, e.g., as needed.
• Leadership meetings and decisions: Participate in leadership meetings and decisions.
• Upholding FWI’s cultural values: Live out FWI’s cultural values in your daily work, and support an organization-wide environment where these values are upheld.

Lead key partnerships.

• Programmatic partnerships: Support our programs by ensuring smooth and mutually beneficial relationships with our partners in the field, such as universities and farmers.
• Legal partnerships: Act as our lead representative for our work with our accountants and legal team.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Nationality: You are an Indian national OR long-term resident.
• Experience: 3 years or more of operations experience, ideally as well as leadership experience.
• Language: You are fluent in written and oral English.
• Location: On average, you will spend 1-4 weeks per quarter in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. Otherwise remote in India.

Desired Skills and Experience

The following attributes give you a sense of what the ideal candidate looks like.

• Ownership and Leadership: You take ownership over your work and your teams, and are a proven leader. You are excited to contribute to the success and growth of FWI's operations department in alignment with our vision and mission.
• Systems optimization mindset: You can’t stand inefficiency, and you approach problems and projects as systems that can be optimized.
• Openness to change: Taking the lean start-up approach, you test ideas quickly and adapt based on what you learn. You move fast, reassess often, and are willing to drop ideas that don’t work.
• Local knowledge: You are familiar with opportunities and challenges of nonprofit work in the Indian context and have the relevant local network.
• Extremely organized: You manage a variety of different tasks effectively.
• Relationship building: You build and maintain key relationships to drive forward FWI's operations.​​
• Telugu: While not strictly required, as most of our team is Telugu we prefer candidates with Telugu language ability.

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