Interim Head Of People (FTC)

tendersglobal.net

Position description

At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good. Since launching in 2015, we’ve raised over $10 billion for the most impactful social causes. We offer the simplest path to impact for successful entrepreneurs, providing end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a worldwide network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our 1800+ members include the people behind industry-leading companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.

ABOUT THE ROLE: 

We’re currently looking for an Interim Head of People on a 12-15 month FTC (maternity cover), with the overall purpose of ensuring that Founders Pledge has the right people, with the right skills, in the right structures, who uphold the right culture to help us achieve our organizational goals. We’ve recently expanded the size of our People Team (to 3!) and launched some new processes to improve our hiring, performance management and professional development. Reporting into our COO, you’ll embed these into the fabric of our organization. This role is a unique opportunity to lead a dynamic and agile function, to implement our new people strategy, develop a small but brilliant People Team and deliver exceptional employee experience for Founders Pledge. 

In this role, you’ll provide global leadership and expertise across the People space, including: organisational development, culture (high-performance culture), recruitment (led by the Senior Talent & People Partner), line management, performance assessment, employee relations, L&D, and compensation and benefits.

Specific responsibilities will include:

  • Leading the People team, line managing one Senior HR/Recruitment generalist in the UK, who manages our HR/Recruitment generalist in the US.
  • Partnering with senior members of the Founders Pledge management team to deliver first-class HR practices, existing processes and systems.
  • Providing coaching and guidance across the org as needed, in particular to people managers, to enable strong and consistent ways of working. This includes supporting managers and staff to manage their workloads effectively.
  • Being the point of contact for all employee relations including performance management.
  • Leading the annual salary review for the organisation.
  • Launching the newly developed professional development process for 2025.
  • Delivering the content for the organisation’s annual global offsite in conjunction with the COO and offsite planning team.
  • Managing the annual performance review process in 2025 and supporting staff to carry out a successful, light-touch performance review this September.
  • Managing the people budget – compensation and personnel costs. You’ll maintain the headcount model in order to enable financial forecasting based on hiring plans and headcount spend.

ABOUT YOU: 

You’re likely to have:

  • Proven experience in broad HR leadership roles with experience embedding high-performance and delivering a HR function of the highest standard.
  • Experience in a fast-moving organization and understanding of the implications of working in an ever-changing environment.
  • Comprehensive understanding of UK employment law (understanding of US labor law is also a plus).
  • The ability to foster a positive, effective culture with high integrity and navigate complex challenges with empathy, integrity, and resourcefulness.
  • Experience coaching managers to achieve high-performance from their teams.
  • Great stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Strong organisation skills and excellent project management and change management capabilities.
  • Experience guiding senior leadership on ER cases.
  • Strong demonstrable experience of enhancing team dynamics and motivation.
  • Leadership that inspires cohesive team delivery and prioritizes wellbeing and work life balance.
  • Experience developing clear, well-structured policies and process documents.
  • Demonstrable track record of identifying and embedding process improvements.
  • Prior payroll management experience.
  • Using data to manage resources in the best way possible.
  • An unwavering commitment to threading equality, diversity and inclusion into all aspects of your work.

WHY WORK WITH US?

You can find more about the benefits we offer here, but what makes us truly special is both our mission and our people. Our team come from both charitable and commercial backgrounds, and believe that amazing things can happen when we tackle problems together. We offer a flat structure and an opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy.

You’ll need to be based within commutable distance of London for this role and will need to come to our office in London Bridge at least 1 day per week.

On top of this, we’ll bring the global team together once per year and individual teams will meet to work together once per year!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge. We seek people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.

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