Director, People Partnering

3 weeks, 2 days ago
Full-time
Executive
HR and Recruiting
GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization that sends money directly to people in poverty, empowering them to choose how to improve their lives.

Capital Markets
51-250
Founded 2009
$1M raised

Description

  • Advise GSS leaders through VP level on organizational structure, workforce planning, talent, performance, compensation, and people decisions.
  • Lead organizational design and workforce planning, including role definition, leveling, sizing, and sequencing.
  • Own talent and succession planning, including identifying readiness, flight risks, and critical dependencies.
  • Coach senior leaders and managers on leadership, behavior, performance, and employee relations conversations.
  • Lead people-related change during restructures, leadership transitions, and resulting team impacts.
  • Design global standards for behavior and underperformance cases, including intake, escalation, accountability, and documentation.
  • Develop an employment decision framework and delegated authority matrix with Legal.
  • Create enablement for managers, HR Managers, and staff on employee relations processes.
  • Partner with investigations teams to maintain a centralized record of case outcomes and identify inconsistencies or patterns.
  • Coach country HR Managers, provide technical escalation support, and recommend country-level case support within the first 90 days.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of HR business partner experience advising executive and senior leaders.
  • Experience working in a scale-up or major transformation where people systems were built during rapid growth or restructuring.
  • Experience building employee relations standards, policies, or frameworks across multiple countries or business units.
  • Experience advising on disciplinary and capability decisions, including dismissals, across more than one jurisdiction.
  • Experience influencing without formal authority in a matrixed organization.
  • Strong judgment, steadiness, and confidence holding positions with senior leaders.
  • A combination of high-growth commercial or technology experience and international or mission-driven experience.
  • Experience operating in sub-Saharan Africa (preferred).
  • Experience building a people function or major component from the ground up (preferred).
  • Workplace investigations experience and manager enablement design experience (preferred).

Benefits

  • Fully remote role with required overlap with East Africa and U.S. Eastern time zones.
  • Approximately 3–4 work trips per year, including travel to a country of operation and a key leadership gathering.
  • United States compensation: $134,400 base salary, 15% target bonus, $154,560+ target total compensation, and $21,393 annual benefits stipend.
  • United Kingdom compensation: £94,695 base salary, 15% target bonus, £108,796+ target total compensation, and £2,760 annual benefits stipend.
  • Kenya compensation: $106,282 base salary, 15% target bonus, $122,224+ target total compensation, and $8,453 annual benefits stipend.
  • Benefits stipend may be used for benefits or taken as additional taxable income.
  • Equitable compensation approach with no salary negotiation policy.
  • Employee referral rewards of $3,000 for Senior Manager-or-above hires and $500 for Manager hires.

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