Director, People Partnering

🕒 September 17

🌐 United States, United Kingdom, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👥 People Operations

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GiveDirectly

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $1M Grant on 2018-03

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating poverty by providing direct cash transfers to individuals in need around the world. With a mission to help people living on less than $2. 15 per day, GiveDirectly empowers recipients to make their own financial decisions by delivering unconditional cash directly to them, leveraging mobile money technology. Their innovative approach has led to broad recognition and has been studied in numerous research projects. By bypassing traditional aid mechanisms, GiveDirectly aims to efficiently and scalably transform lives, offering targeted assistance in regions such as Bangladesh, Kenya, and the United States, among others.

📋 Description

• Serve as the dedicated people partner to Global Shared Services teams of approximately 200 employees • Advise and coach GSS leaders, from managers through VP level, on team structure, workforce planning, talent, risk, and people decisions • Lead organizational design and workforce planning for global functions, including structure, role definition, levels, sizing, and sequencing • Own talent and succession planning for the population • Partner on performance and compensation decisions, including calibration, promotion cases, and band placement • Coach senior leaders and global managers on leadership, behavior, and performance conversations • Lead people-side change for restructures and leadership transitions • Represent People for global staff and hold employment decisions within the organizational framework • Define and communicate behavior and underperformance categories • Audit country-level case handling and create global standards for intake, escalation, responsibility, and documentation • Build an employment decision framework with Legal, including a delegated authority matrix and escalation routes • Design and deliver enablement for managers, HR Managers, and staff • Establish a centralized record of investigation outcomes to identify patterns and inconsistencies • Recommend within the first 90 days who should support behavior and underperformance cases in each country • Coach HR Managers through cases and act as a technical escalation point • Provide People input during triage and monitor outcomes for inconsistencies across countries, teams, or managers • Report to the Head of People

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of HR business partner experience with executive and senior leaders • Experience coaching leaders who were strong in their domain but needed to grow as people leaders • Experience in a scale-up or major transformation involving rapid growth, restructuring, or both • Experience building systems that did not previously exist while operational volume was increasing • Demonstrated experience building employee relations standards, policies, or frameworks from scratch or close to it • Experience getting employee relations frameworks adopted across multiple countries or business units • A mix of high-growth commercial or technology experience and international or mission-driven experience • Experience holding or closely advising on disciplinary and capability decisions, including dismissals, in more than one jurisdiction • Judgment to know when to involve counsel • Track record of influencing without formal authority in a matrixed organization • Ability to overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours and meaningfully overlap with US Eastern hours • Must be eligible to work in an eligible country; the employer cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas in the U.S. or U.K. • Preferred: experience operating in sub-Saharan Africa • Preferred: experience building a people function or major part of one from the ground up • Preferred: formal training or experience in workplace investigations • Preferred: experience designing manager enablement content • Successful completion of safeguarding checks, reference checks, criminal background checks, and sanctions screens

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual benefits stipend: $21,393 for United States employees • Annual benefits stipend: £2,760 for United Kingdom employees • Annual benefits stipend: $8,453 for Kenya employees • Benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income • Bonus at target performance: 15%, with potential for upside • Approximately 3–4 trips per year, including travel to a country of operation and a key in-person leadership moment • Remote work • Reasonable accommodations during application, interview, and employment • $3,000 referral reward for Senior Manager or above roles; $500 for Manager roles, paid if the referral is hired