Job Description: Interim Chief Operations Officer (COO) Position Title: Interim Chief Operations
Officer (COO) Organization: Birth Center Equity
Reports To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Salary Range: Commensurate with experience; contract/hire salary range based on a FTE of
$200,000 annually
Location: Virtual
Term: Contractual/Fractional/Hourly (6 months)
Organization Overview
ABOUT BIRTH CENTER EQUITY (BCE)
Birth Center Equity (BCE) was created to make birth center care an option in every community, by
growing and sustaining birth centers led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color. BCE honors and
acknowledges the rich and dynamic legacy of Black, Indigenous and people of color birth activism
and all that is actively happening now. BCE was created to bridge the gap between Black, Indigenous
and people of color-led birth centers and access to capital. BCE aims to make a unique contribution
by building a coalition among Black, Indigenous and people of color-led birth centers with the
express goal of growing and leveraging financial resources for collective growth and
sustainability. BCE has grown a relationship and values-based network of more than 57 established
and developing Black, Indigenous and people of color-led birth centers across the country, and
focuses on investing in Black, Indigenous, people of color-led birth centers to grow and sustain
community birth infrastructure for generations.
ABOUT BELOVED ECONOMY STUDIO (BEST™)
Early learnings from BCE informed the growth of BCE’s emerging Beloved Economy Studio (BESt™).
BESt™ aims to ensure every person has access to safe, culturally- reverent midwifery care by
incubating and investing in community-led birth center business development and management from
start-up to sustainability. BESt™ will build and launch ambitious
purpose-driven companies that strengthen community birth infrastructure, add value to the birth
justice ecosystem and generate wealth for our communities. Led by a founding entrepreneurial team,
BESt™ will develop and serve as a one-stop shop source of human, social, financial, and
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built capital resources to support community birth centers. As we expand, we seek a visionary and
results-oriented Interim Chief Operations Officer (COO) to provide leadership and operational
oversight.
Position Summary
The Interim Chief Operating Officer (COO) is a critical executive team member responsible for
ensuring operational excellence, financial sustainability, values-aligned culture creation, and
programmatic impact. This interim role will help the burgeoning organization assess, create the
foundational structure and inform a permanent COO position that supports the values, mission and
vision of the organization while fostering operational excellence. The Interim COO oversees all
aspects of daily operations, including people and culture, finance, technology, facilities, and
program management to support the organization’s mission and strategic objectives. The ideal
candidate is a strategic thinker, skilled in operational leadership, financial management, and
organizational development, with an understanding of social change movements.
Key Responsibilities Strategic Leadership
● Ensure alignment of operations with the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
● Collaborate with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and board
of directors to develop and implement the organization’s strategic plan.
● Provide leadership in operational planning, risk management, and resource distribution.
Operations Management
● Oversee daily operations, including finance, people and culture, IT, facilities, and
administration.
● Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and nonprofit and social enterprise
best practices.
● Develop, implement, and refine processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Financial Oversight
● Work closely with the finance team to manage budgets, cash flow, and financial performance.
● Oversee financial planning, budgeting, and resource allocation to ensure the effective
utilization of funds in support of BCE's strategic objectives.
● Provide oversight to budget development and management for BCE directors in Narrative
Strategy, Operations and Impact, Resource Generation/Distribution, and Network Engagement.
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● Work with CSO to oversee development of appropriate budget tracking tools to support all BCE
current and future programs.
● Ensure operational and financial alignment between BCE’s nonprofit and business entities.
● Support fundraising efforts by ensuring operational readiness and resource alignment.
● Develop financial strategies and reporting systems to sustain growth and impact.
● Work with CEO to review annual budget and coordinate fundraising goals, reports and progress
Strategic Implementation:
● Directly manage and provide oversight to the program areas of Operations and Impact, Network
Engagement, and CEO support staff and Resource Generation.
● Support implementation of strategic plan (s), initiatives, and programs aligned with BCE's
mission and goals.
● Drive execution excellence across all aspects of BCE's operations and initiatives.
● Provide thought partnership and lend operational expertise to the development of the Beloved
Economy Studio (BESt).
Team Leadership and Culture
● Lead and mentor a diverse team of professionals, fostering a culture of safety, abundance,
liberation, accountability, and collaboration.
● Develop and implement policies and practices that support employee engagement and development.
● Ensure a supportive and inclusive work environment that reflects the organization’s values.
Other Duties:
● Asses current needs, practices and culture and offer written recommendation for leadership
model
● Advise the Executive Team on permanent COO position description and duties
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management, Business Administration,
Public Administration, or a related field preferred.
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Experience
● 10+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience in nonprofit management,
operations, or a related field.
● Proven success in managing budgets of $5 million or more.
● Strong track record in financial management, organizational development, and operational
excellence.
Skills
● Exceptional leadership and team-building skills.
● Expertise in financial management, including budgeting and forecasting.
● Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
● Familiarity with nonprofit compliance, governance, and funding models.
● Strong writing, editing, and verbal skills, including the willingness and ability to
communicate across a wide range of stakeholders.
● Knowledge of organizational management, coupled with a deep desire to re-imagine and actively
transform away from oppressive organizational systems and practices.
● Understanding the contexts of birth justice and reproductive justice movements and being
willing to learn more about its history.
● Experience managing complex projects and competing priorities while maintaining high standards
of quality and responsiveness.
Values
● Demonstrated interest in the mission, vision and values of Birth Center Equity.
● A personal commitment to racial justice, equity, liberation.
● Flexibility to the demands of a startup organization that is developing and innovating
strategy and working methodologies.
Attributes
● Visionary thinker
● Results-driven, with a focus on measurable outcomes and impact.
● Collaborative and inclusive leadership style.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS
● Virtual working conditions, majority of working hours on computer tasks
● Physical effort: sedentary
● 32 hours a week with work hours established in coordination with leadership
● Travel is part of BCE’s routine work for team meetings, retreats, or conferences
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● Receptive and expressive language, engaged dialog and resolving difficult conversations are
part of the current culture of BCE
● Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at a time
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Contract or fractional salary commensurate with scale and scope of growing organization and
candidate skills and experience; salary range based on a FTE of $200,000 annually. A comprehensive
benefits package is available, including employer-paid health, dental, vision. This is a remote
position, with required travel 8-10 times annually.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT
BCE is a fiscally sponsored project of Movement Sustainability Commons at Resist, Inc., and is an
equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages people directly impacted by inequity in maternal
and child health, people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people to seek employment
opportunities with us.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested applicants should send their resume and cover letter to
hiring@birthcenterequity.org, ensuring the subject line follows the format: “Interim COO
Application – [Applicant’s Name].”
Candidates can also use the provided email address for any questions. We will do our best to reply
to any questions ASAP to ensure timely support.
ABOUT BIRTH CENTER EQUITY VISION
A world where midwives, families, and communities of color thrive.
MISSION
To invest in Black, Indigenous, people of color-led birth centers to grow and sustain community
birth infrastructure for generations.
VALUES
Safety - All Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) deserve safe birth spaces and safe birth
care, as well as safe spaces that support our growth, leadership, and relationships. Ensuring our
safety includes healing and reparation of harm and inequity in maternal health practices,
structures and systems (including inequitable access to capital) that have oppressed our
communities. Ensuring our safety also includes healing and reparation within our networks and
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organizations and treating one another with respect, grace, and kindness.
Abundance - With trusted relationships and solidarity come abundant resources to grow and sustain
BIPOC community-owned and led birth infrastructure, and realize beloved economy. Beloved economy
rejects scarcity, supremacy and resource hoarding; and instead centers care, liberatory
relationships, abundance, community wealth and power building.
Liberation - Safe, loving, and liberatory birth for all birthing people is essential to racial,
gender, and reproductive justice. BCE honors the human right to bodily autonomy, to have and to not
have children, to parent in a safe, healthy, nonviolent environment, and the rights to
self-definition and sexual freedom. (See Sister Song Reproductive Justice Declaration.) We believe
that leading together in our own care is an act of liberation, and that honoring birth as a chosen
sacred transformative experience at every level (individual, organization, community, culture) will
transform birth culture for all.
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