When working with members in the Communities members console, it is necessary to be signed in as a user with appropriate permissions, and for the replication agent used by the tunnel service to be correctly configured.
If not signed in as admin, then the signed in user must be a member of the administrators user group.
I have huge reservations about adding regular users (albeit users who work within our organisation) to the administrators group on a publisher server when the only part of the system they need access to is the communities member console. Is there any other way of giving a moderator access to edit member profiles without adding them to the administrators group?