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Operations Lead

Nonprofit Portfolio

Moral Fabric runs operations for nonprofits working on sizable, solvable, sorely neglected problems. We are hiring an Operations Lead in Amsterdam to hold real ops roles inside multiple nonprofit customers at a time.

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Applications close 15 October 2026

Start date

1 November 2026

Or sooner if you're available.

Workload

Full-time (32 - 40 hrs)

Location

Amsterdam

Our office is at WTC Amsterdam, and you'll spend one or two days a week at a customer's office.

Salary

€45,000 - €55,000

Gross yearly based on 40 hrs, including 8% holiday allowance.

Deadline

15 October 2026

Duration

Permanent

Initial 1 year contract.

About us

Moral Fabric runs operations for nonprofits working on sizable, solvable, sorely neglected problems. Finance, legal, people, and the tooling underneath. We do the ops, our nonprofit customers do the good.

We embed rather than advise. Each customer adds Moral Fabric as a role inside their own structure, with accountabilities we hold and they can point to. Today we work with Profit for Good, Doneer Effectief, Safe AI Netherlands, Delta Instituut, IPE, Bureau Burgerberaad and several others. Next year we hope to serve a 100 nonprofits in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Every policy, tool stack and process we build becomes a pattern in the Moral Fabric app. The next customer adopts it and adapts it, which is how a team of five supports ten organizations.

We started in 2026 out of The School for Moral Ambition. 80,000 Hours ranks nonprofit operations management among its top ten highest-impact career paths.

The role

You support our nonprofit customers with operations. Which ops role you hold exactly depends on the customer. At one organization you're the Ops Lead: you set the operational agenda and the team brings you everything. At the next you hold People & Culture, running contracts, onboarding and leave policy. At a third you take Tech & Tools and move them off an American stack onto European software. Two or three customers at a time, one or two days a week each, at their desk.

You work as a colleague rather than a supplier. Their Slack, their Asana, their team meetings, your name on real roles and accountabilities in their structure.

Specialists sit behind you: Leonor on financial systems and dashboards, Catarina on payroll and bookkeeping, Eva on legal, Ruben on tech and Daan on the Moral Fabric app. Your job is to recognise what's broken, know who or which pattern to pull in, and own the outcome.

Key responsibilities

The mix shifts per customer. Some need their ANBI application and their first payroll. Others have that and need someone to get the team off spreadsheets. You read the situation and pick.

Operational triage

In your first weeks at a new customer, together with the founder you map what exists across legal, finance, people and tech, help decide what gets fixed first.

Tech & tools

Set up and migrate the stack: Google Workspace, Asana projects and roles, Slack, Proton Pass, access reviews, and EU-based alternatives where a customer's data demands it.

People & culture

Draft employment and freelance contracts from our templates, run onboarding and offboarding, adopt Moral Fabric's leave and expense policies based on our patterns, coordinate payroll setup with Catarina, and arrange employment abroad through an Employer of Record.

Legal & compliance

Take ANBI applications through the Belastingdienst, keep GDPR handling defensible, route a contract review to Eva, and check that board liability and insurance are actually in place.

Finance

Get Moneybird set up and reconciling, build an invoice and payment flow the customer can run themselves, and work with Leonor on budgets, forecasts and dashboards.

Pattern building

Turn what you solve at one customer into a pattern the others can adopt. Write it once, properly, in the app and the wiki. Signal to your Moral Fabric colleagues that some customers need updating, discuss how to adopt variations.

Customer relationship

Run the bi-weekly check-in, surface tensions (Holacracy style) to unblock, report what we delivered, and flag where we should be doing more or less.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years running a part of or all operations in a small organization. Nonprofit experience is welcome, not required.
  • Real experience in at least two of our four domains: People & Culture, Legal & Compliance, Tech & Tools, Finance & Reporting. Working knowledge of the rest, and the confidence to walk into a conversation about any of them.
  • You chase clarity. When a task arrives half-defined, you come back the same day with questions or a proposal, or simply with a tension we help you solve.
  • You're comfortable as the newest person in someone else's organization, and you earn trust fast.
  • You get more done with AI than without it. We use Claude daily for drafting, research and building. Curiosity matters more than existing skill, but you dive deep quickly.
  • Interest in self-managing organizations. We work with roles and accountabilities (Holacracy) and Getting Things Done (GTD), and we help most of our customers do so too.
  • Working proficiency Dutch preferred. Payroll, Belastingdienst, KvK and ANBI work all run in Dutch.
  • NB: You should already have the right to work in the Netherlands, as we're not able to sponsor visas for this role.

What we offer

  • €45,000 - €55,000 annual salary based on 40 hrs/week including 8% holiday allowance, paid monthly, depending on experience.
  • Your operational skills applied across dozens of organizations instead of one, and a front-row seat at every one of them.
  • Our office at WTC Amsterdam with a daily vegan lunch, hybrid where it makes sense, and full coverage of your public transport between home and work.
  • 30 days of paid holiday per year (all taken within the calendar year, no carryover), and Dutch public holidays swappable for a day that suits you better.
  • A self-managing environment with clear roles, autonomy and structure. We document, standardize and automate by default.
  • The School for Moral Ambition community, and the network of nonprofits we serve.
  • A team of five that started only 3 months ago, where your judgment changes how Moral Fabric develops in the coming decade.

We value talent and a can-do attitude above traditional credentials. Even if you don't meet every requirement, and especially if you think we might overlook something that makes you a good fit, we welcome you to challenge us and apply. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and non-traditional career paths. If you have questions about the role, reach out to Ruben directly.

Application process

  1. Application

    until 10 September 2026

    Fill out the online form. No long motivation letter, just a few focused questions.

  2. First conversation

    Dates to be confirmed

    30 minutes with Eva on your experience and what you're after.

  3. Deep dive

    Dates to be confirmed

    60 minutes with Ruben on how you'd handle a real customer situation.

  4. Paid work trial

    Dates to be confirmed

    Half a day on an actual customer problem, with the team.

  5. References and offer

    Dates to be confirmed

Sound like you?

Applications close on 15 October 2026. No long motivation letter, just a few focused questions.

Apply now