Head of People – Organizational Development

🕒 October 15

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📚 Learning and Development

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SPUN | Society for the Protection of Underground Networks

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🔬 Science

Non-profit • Education • Science

SPUN | Society for the Protection of Underground Networks is a science-based initiative dedicated to mapping the fungal networks of our planet and advocating for their protection. Founded to support the vital role that fungal networks play in sustaining life on Earth, SPUN collaborates with researchers and local communities to advance efforts in conserving these underground ecosystems, which are often overlooked in conservation and climate discussions. The organization aims to drive innovation in underground climate science to promote awareness and protection of these essential networks.

📋 Description

• Design and evolve SPUN’s organizational structure, including teams, roles, reporting lines, and leadership responsibilities • Anticipate future organizational capabilities and shape hiring approaches across levels • Assess organizational health and identify structural, capacity, or workflow friction • Work with the Operations Manager on people policies and processes across operating countries • Design operating rhythms, decision-making processes, and planning practices for a distributed team • Strengthen organizational knowledge capture and sharing across people, meetings, and time zones • Improve collaboration and handoffs among scientific, data science, policy, and partnership teams • Shape core tools and SPUN’s approach to AI adoption • Identify high-value AI use cases and required workflows, roles, and skills • Build AI fluency through training, peer learning, experimentation, and practical resources • Establish mechanisms for sharing AI experiments, practices, and lessons learned • Build a healthy, ambitious, and inclusive culture across a globally distributed organization • Create connection opportunities across time zones, disciplines, and teams • Design and facilitate retreats, team sessions, and leadership gatherings • Design onboarding focused on SPUN’s culture and ways of working • Develop approaches to recognizing team and individual achievements • Strengthen leadership and management capabilities as SPUN grows • Establish feedback, goal-setting, development conversation, and performance review practices • Develop progression pathways, including transitions from individual contributor to manager • Identify learning and professional development opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience helping organizations scale and build culture, trust, connection, and accountability • Experience ideally in organizations where people work remotely across time zones • Ability to shape strategy and build processes, frameworks, and systems hands-on • Curiosity about people, team dynamics, and organizational obstacles • Ability to advise senior leaders, challenge thinking, build credibility, handle sensitive information, and manage complex interpersonal situations • Experience leading adoption of new tools, technologies, or ways of working, including AI • Knowledge that lasting change requires training, change management, and confidence-building • Excellent communication with scientists, data scientists, policy and partnership specialists, and senior leadership • Excitement for SPUN’s mission and motivation to build organizational conditions for greater impact • Preferred: experience in a science, research, environmental, or impact-driven organization • Preferred: experience in a globally distributed organization across multiple countries and employment jurisdictions • Preferred: experience with multidisciplinary teams spanning science, policy, partnerships, and operations • Preferred: experience building career frameworks, performance systems, or development programs from scratch • Preferred: hands-on experience with AI tools and interest in organizational change

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits supporting health, well-being, growth, and balance • Benefits tailored to local laws across the globally distributed team • Inclusive environment where individuals can bring their authentic selves to work

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