Dona John

Director of Operations @New Economy Organisers Network Neon

London, GB

Leading on operational projects - ensuring operational systems and processes run smoothly and consistently across the team, and which aim to push the boundaries of what a progressive organisation and culture can do.Compliance and governance - Ensuring organisational compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory standards. Being proactive in updating NEON’s risk management framework and underpinning processes. Leading the Ops Hub - doing weekly and quarterly planning and priority-setting, maintaining the collaborative, caring and high performing culture of the hub, pushing forward projects we’re working on togetherManaging the Head of Finance to a high standard - mentoring and supporting the Head of Finance and working with them to ensure robust and effective financial systems and processes for NEON. Managing the People & Operations Manager to a high standard - Improving our people management practices/processes by using the full spectrum of management tools and approaches e.g. mentoring, coaching, challenge and feedback, more formal performance processes. Delivering and/or delegating responsive requests from the team and incubated organisations around People and/or Operations - including culture, anti-oppression, governance, finance, systems and processes, HRActing as an escalation point for any “HR” issues that need legal advice Leading the creation of the operations budget for the year, using data from previous years and the Operations Strategy - with support from the Executive Directors and Head of FinancePlaying an active role in the Directors Group (our version of a Senior Leadership Team), bringing skills and experience on People and Operations issues, contributing to organisational-level planning and thinking, and working as peers to steer NEON. Bringing an anti-oppression lens to all of the above - confidently applying anti-oppression principles and practice to all operational work