Head of People

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Make talent a competitive advantage: Raise the hiring bar; build a repeatable ''hiring machine'' (calibration, principles/values assessment, structured loops, quality-at-30/90 days)
• - Build a proactive network and bench for executive and scarce roles
• - Design performance + rewards: Implement a lightweight, high-signal performance system tied to development and consequences
• - Be the steady employee relations advisor: Lead on sensitive personnel matters with discretion and fairness
• - Coach and level up leadership: Partner with the CEO/COO and executives on org design, succession, and leadership effectiveness
• - Build scalable global people ops: Improve HRIS/workforce tools; standardize core processes
• - Strengthen culture and engagement: Ensure our values are felt and lived across the organization
• - Own people analytics: Ship leadership dashboards to inform decisions and accountability
• - Operate with leverage: Keep the People team small, senior, and high-output

Required Skills

• - Strong business acumen with a track record of treating the People function as a driver of company/organizational outcomes
• - Demonstrated success building simple, scalable systems across multiple countries and regulatory contexts
• - Depth in sensitive employee relations, risk management, and safeguarding across very diverse contexts
• - Exceptional leader and manager: Recruits, calibrates, and develops senior talent
• - Structured, analytical thinker who disaggregates problems, designs from first principles, iterates quickly, and measures results
• - Comfort moving between private sector and NGO settings and between different org sizes

Benefits

• - A supportive team that works hard and cares hard
• - A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• - Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take
• - Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development