Team Coordinator — Transforming Value Chains

Team Coordinator — Transforming Value Chains

Location: Flexible (UK South East preferred); work will mainly be remote, home-based.
Salary: Competitive, commensurate with experience
Contract: Full-time, one year contract (with potential to renew)
Start Date: as soon as possible

About Ostara

We believe a deeper crisis lies behind today’s global challenges, which explains why progress has stalled: a crisis of separation and imagination. Separation from ourselves, each other, and the natural world has fuelled extractive and exploitative systems, leading to fragmented efforts and a weak basis for collective action. At the same time, our inability to see beyond existing paradigms—the crisis of imagination—keeps us locked in cycles of incrementalism.

Ostara was founded in 2024 to address these dual crises. Our mission is to restore relationships to ourselves, each other, and the Earth, building engaged communities of changemakers to reimagine and catalyse the emergence of an economy in service of life.

Our work centres on convening diverse stakeholders in Imaginal Studios—collaborative spaces where diverse stakeholders come together to unlock latent potential, explore new possibilities and co-create solutions applied to discrete complex environmental challenges, such as value chain transformation and nature finance. Each Imaginal Studio blends immersive, nature-based experiences with design thinking and systems analysis to catalyse new ideas and invite participants to rethink their roles and agency for long-term systemic transformation.

The Role

The Team Coordinator — Transforming Value Chains will support the delivery of Ostara’s core project around value chain transformation in 2025. This role will focus on team coordination, event logistics, and operational excellence to enable Ostara’s mission to flourish. Over the course of 2025 we expect to convene between 6 and 10 workshops for 20-30 people each, across three locations in the Pacific, Europe and the US.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Coordination: Manage team calendars, organise meetings, and facilitate internal communications to ensure alignment.
• Event Logistics: Lead the operational planning and execution of workshops gatherings, and events across three international locations in the Pacific, Europe and US, ensuring seamless delivery and exceptional participant experiences.
• Administrative Support: Maintain effective systems for team operations, including document management and day-to-day administrative tasks.
• Operational Excellence: Handle travel logistics, vendor coordination, and other critical operational functions.
• Collaboration Support: Work closely with other team members to deliver on project milestones and objectives.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 5 years experience across roles involving project coordination, event planning, and team coordination functions.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, at ease in multi-cultural settings and working across time zones.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Tech-savvy: proficiency with online tools for virtual meetings (Zoom, Teams,Miro), document sharing (Google Workspace, Microsoft Office), and project management platforms (Notion).
• Familiarity with sustainability or development sectors is a plus.
• This role is best suited for someone with an entrepreneurial mindset, aligned with Ostara’s values and mission, keen to work at a global level in an emergent start-up setting.

We are committed to ensuring our team is representative of the diverse world around us and therefore we encourage candidates with a diversity of backgrounds to apply.

Why Work With Us?

• Ostara is a new organisation building its team and growing its first initiatives in 2025. We are a small dedicated team driven by our values and vision. Joining as one of Ostara’s first team members is an opportunity to be part of an exciting period of development in an emergent start-up setting.
• Work with a passionate, values-led team committed to fostering creativity, collaboration, and systemic change, and advancing bold new approaches.
• Contribute to transformative work that addresses some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please send your CV and a cover letter to Bekah at rebekah@ostaracollective.org, ideally by 20th January 2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.