Head of HR Programs

🔥 12 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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The HALO Trust

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1988

🤝 Non-profit

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Government • Social Impact

The HALO Trust is a charitable organization dedicated to protecting lives and restoring livelihoods affected by conflict through the clearance of landmines and other explosives. With a mission for a landmine-free world by 2025, the organization engages in demining activities and educates communities on safety measures. HALO operates globally, including in Africa, Europe, South Asia, Central Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Moreover, the trust is involved in environmental protection, job creation, and empowering women. It collaborates with various partners, including government bodies and international agencies, to bring about sustainable change.

📋 Description

• Act as the senior HR partner to international programme leadership on workforce, employee relations, leadership and organisational capability matters • Support programme leaders with employment and contracting arrangements suited to programme duration, funding terms and operational needs • Provide senior HR advice in complex, resource-constrained environments • Oversee workforce planning and contracting approaches across varied operating contexts • Advise on complex people, safeguarding and duty of care matters, supporting timely and proportionate resolution • Maintain oversight of significant people and safeguarding matters and ensure appropriate escalation • Communicate significant people and safeguarding considerations to Executive and Board stakeholders • Interpret and apply global HR policies across diverse local and legal contexts • Support legal, safeguarding and people-management obligations across multiple jurisdictions • Support HR assurance reviews covering workforce practices, employee relations, safeguarding, duty of care and people management • Assess workforce risks, control effectiveness, compliance, emerging risks and improvement opportunities • Support corrective actions following assurance reviews • Build people-management capability through coaching, mentoring, training, performance, development and succession support • Manage and develop the Regional HR network • Ensure HALO values and standards are reflected in people decisions and leadership behaviour • Act as the primary interface between programme teams and HR Operations • Work with the Head of HR Operations on common standards, escalation routes and case handling • Uphold HALO’s values, mission, policies, code of conduct and safeguarding standards • Travel occasionally to programmes globally

🎯 Requirements

• Significant leadership experience, including in international, multi-jurisdictional or complex operating environments • Demonstrable experience of managing remote teams effectively across multiple countries or regions • Experience providing senior level advice to non-HR leadership and operating with autonomy in ambiguous or fast-moving situations • Ability to calibrate HR responses appropriately, distinguishing between complex, high-risk cases and matters that can be resolved pragmatically and proportionately • Deep expertise in employee relations, safeguarding and managing complex people issues in international environments • Strong understanding of UK employment law and law across multiple jurisdictions • Advanced professional judgement in ambiguous, high-risk environments • Ability to translate complex risk into clear, decision focused advice • Strong understanding of embedding a safeguarding assurance framework • High credibility and gravitas with senior operational leaders • Influential without authority; confident challenger • Calm, measured and values-led under pressure • Strong ethical judgement and organisational awareness • Ability to develop and lead HR teams across multiple jurisdictions • Experience working within a not-for-profit / global matrix organisation (desirable) • International employment law knowledge (desirable) • Submit a CV of no more than 2 pages and a tailored cover letter of no more than 1 page

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 statutory holidays • Non-contributory life assurance • Private medical insurance • Pension contributions matched by HALO up to 5% • Emergency medical insurance while travelling overseas • Flexible working policy