Remote Operations & Events Lead

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking an Operations & Events Executive to own the day-to-day run of a growing international education organisation. You will manage the events calendar, deliver high-profile programmes, and coordinate a global network of volunteers and partners.

This fully remote role requires UK-aligned hours and strong capability to drive processes, budgets, and supplier management with minimal hand-holding.

Qualifications

• Experience across operations, programme management and event delivery.
• Proven ability to deliver end-to-end events with run sheets and on-ground coordination.
• Ability to manage remote teams and deliver detail from a distance.
• Exceptional organisation with strong follow-up and tracking without reminders.
• Comfort with ambiguity and building structure and processes oneself.
• Ambition to grow to run the entire operation.
• Excellent written and spoken English, including senior stakeholder communication.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools integrated into daily workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the operating calendar across every programme and event.
• Set the rhythm, run regular check-ins, and hold people to a standard.
• Plan, source suppliers, manage venues and budgets for set-piece events; direct on-ground coordinators and volunteers.
• Coordinate volunteer and ambassador network delivering much of the activity.
• Keep all workstreams moving; track status, risks, and decisions.
• Create SOPs, trackers and tooling to enable repeat efficiency.
• Oversee budgets and spend across operations and events; explain variances.
• Manage suppliers and contracts; ensure agreements are fulfilled.
• Report clearly to leadership and support decision-making with data.
• Utilise AI across workflows for planning, drafting, tracking and automation.

Skills

Operations

Event delivery

Programme management

Remote collaboration

English proficiency

AI tool fluency

Tools

Notion

Airtable

n8n

Zapier

AI-driven workflows

Job description

Confidential is seeking an Operations & Events Executive to own the day-to-day run of a growing international education organisation. You will manage the events calendar, deliver high-profile programmes, and coordinate a global network of volunteers and partners.

This fully remote role requires UK-aligned hours and strong capability to drive processes, budgets, and supplier management with minimal hand-holding.