Wave Pool is a socially engaged art center in Camp Washington, Cincinnati. The Operations Coordinator provides operational and administrative support to staff, leadership, and the Board of Directors. The role requires a highly organized person who can manage a range of tasks at once, from financial record-keeping to board governance and events coordination.
The Operations Coordinator maintains organizational financial records — data entry, invoicing, reconciliation, expense tracking, and basic reports, and supports fiscal sponsorship coordination, including agreements, payments, and recordkeeping. This work will be central to Wave Pool's growing fiscal sponsorship activity. Additional responsibilities include communications coordination, mailing list maintenance, day-to-day office functions and correspondence, records in nonprofit management software, grant and donor tracking, and other administrative projects as assigned.
The Operations Coordinator supports senior staff and the Board of Directors by scheduling and coordinating meetings, compiling and distributing board dockets and meeting materials in advance, recording and distributing minutes, and serving as a point of contact between board members and staff.
The position is structured as part-time at start, with the intention of growing to full-time over the course of 2027 as organizational resources allow. It reports to the Executive and Artistic Director.
Qualifications
-Strong preference for practicing artists
-Prior experience in an administrative or office support role, preferably in a nonprofit setting.
-Technologically savvy, fast learner of new tools
-Strong organizational and communication skills.
-Experience in Google Workspace, Google Docs
-Experience in accounting software and nonprofit finance and compliance basics is a plus.
-This is an in-person position. Residence in the Cincinnati area at the time of the position start is required.
-Compensation $20/hour
-This is a part time position, 20 hours a week
-10 days PTO
-Health cost reimbursement ($200/month)
-Access to Wave Pool’s facilities for personal creative work, including woodshop, ceramics kiln, vinyl cutter, project space, and tool library.
About Wave Pool
Wave Pool is a socially engaged art center in Camp Washington, Cincinnati, championing artist-driven practices that extend beyond galleries and museums: listening deeply, collaborating broadly, and working with neighbors and partners through visionary approaches to world building. Our work pairs communities’ knowledge of their needs with artists’ sense of possibility, building relationships and collective knowledge around complex issues. Wave Pool operates a gallery, residencies and fellowships, professional development for artists, woodshop, ceramics studio, and community gathering space. Wave Pool is an equal opportunity employer.
We do notdiscriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, age, disability, or any characteristic protected by applicable law.
For more information about the position, reach out to Boris Oicherman, boris@wavepoolgallery.org, or come to his office hours at Swell Art Cafe, 4–6 pm every Wednesday.
Apply before May 17, 2026
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