Operations Lead (nonprofit customers) Moral Fabric

Moral fabric team june 2026 widelow

Organisatie

Moral Fabric is a spin-out from The School for Moral Ambition, which has been running several programs in the cause areas of animal welfare, tobacco control, democracy, and tax fairness. Moral Fabric has about 10 EA-aligned customers in the Netherlands, and we only work for other non-profits in this space.

Moral Fabric runs operations for nonprofits working on sizable, solvable, and 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 set of roles inside their own structure, where we can see what we mutually expect from each other. Today we work with about a dozen customers, such as Profit for Good, Doneer Effectief, Safe AI Netherlands, Impact Unfiltered, Delta Instituut, IPE, Bureau Burgerberaad. 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, saving time and costs, increasing the shared quality amongst all.

Ruben started in 2026 out of The School for Moral Ambition, which he co-founded. Eva joined as co-founder after years of leading operations at tech & impact scale-ups. 80,000 Hours ranks nonprofit operations management among its top ten highest-impact career paths. We aim to help solve the absorption problem the nonprofit sector faces.

Taken

The mix shifts per customer. Some need their ANBI application and their first payroll. Others are already underway and need better finances and people processes. You work with founders and help them prioritize.

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 contracts from our templates, run on- and offboarding, adopt our leave and expense policies based on our patterns, coordinate payroll setup with Catarina, discover self-management best practices that fit the customer.

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.

Functie-eisen en profiel

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.

Ons aanbod

  • €45,000 - €55,000 annual salary depending on experience, based on 40 hrs/week including 8% holiday allowance. You get a yearly raise and inflation correction in our salary framework, not tied to performance.
  • 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, close alignment with effective altruism, and an amazing network of nonprofits we serve and learn from.
  • A team of five that started only 3 months ago, where your judgment and energy influence how Moral Fabric develops in the coming decade.


Informeren en solliciteren

We value talent and a can-do / will-learn 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 or Eva directly.

Our process values scoring as objectively as possible, and experiencing through actual work, above interviews and vibes.

Application

deadline 11 Sep. 2026

Fill out the online form. No motivation letter or resume, just a few questions about your experience

 

Honest conversation

14 - 18 Sep. 2026

30 minutes separately with both Eva and Ruben on your experience and what you're curious about


Paid work trial

21 Sep. - 2 Oct. 2026

Half a day working with us on a few actual customer challenges

References and offer

Before 16 Oct. 2026

We'll ask for 2 references to have short call with, and make you an offer we hope you won't refuse!