Director, Talent Management

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $134.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Human Resources (HR)

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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

• Build GiveDirectly’s talent management function and establish an intentional approach to onboarding, development, and retention • Assess existing talent management programs within the first 90 days and agree the first-year sequencing with the Head of People • Set the vision and multi-year talent management roadmap • Propose the talent management team and determine what to build in-house versus buy or borrow • Connect talent management with workforce planning, compensation, and recruitment in partnership with People, Finance, and function leaders • Lead execution of the performance system redesign, connecting calibrated ratings to merit increases and salary bands • Improve performance conversations, employee clarity on expectations, feedback, and growth • Build calibration and data processes to support fair ratings and merit decisions across countries and currencies • Establish global standards for addressing low performance and equip managers to apply them • Iterate the performance system using calibration, outcomes, and employee and manager feedback • Revamp onboarding content and experience for new hires and managers, partnering with People Ops on systems and processes • Build foundational manager development programs covering feedback, coaching, difficult conversations, and performance management • Extend into leadership development and broader learning • Plan the values retreat with an external facilitator and executive sponsor, and carry outcomes into daily work • Assess employee listening and engagement and build an employee listening strategy • Establish talent planning and succession processes

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in talent management, performance, or organizational design roles, including time leading a function or a major part of one • Designed a performance system, including connecting ratings to pay and changing the system after the first cycle • Experience keeping rating and pay systems fair across different currencies, labor markets, and manager quality • Hands-on experience building talent management programs and systems from scratch or close to it in a start-up or scale-up • Systems thinking across ratings, calibration, pay, promotion, and onboarding • Change management experience across different countries and cultures, including demonstrating program adoption • Deep experience in at least two of onboarding, manager development, and employee engagement/listening, plus working experience in the third • Track record of taking over major projects, working through disagreement with senior partners, and influencing without formal authority in a matrixed organization • Judgment and prioritization • Preferred: experience in a mission-driven or international organization, ideally with high-growth commercial or tech experience • Preferred: experience across multiple countries, including sub-Saharan Africa • Preferred: experience with external facilitators, consultants, or vendors • Preferred: comfort using survey, performance, and calibration data • Preferred: exposure to compensation design or total rewards • Preferred: professional French or Portuguese • Availability for at least approximately 3 hours of daily overlap with East Africa Time and meaningful overlap with US Eastern hours • Must be able to work in one of the listed hiring countries through a GiveDirectly entity or established employer of record • GiveDirectly cannot sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas in the U.S. or U.K.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual benefits stipend: $21,393 in the United States, £2,760 in the United Kingdom, or $8,453 in Kenya • Bonus target: 15% • Approximately 3-4 trips per year, including at least one to a country of operation and one to a key in-person leadership moment • Reasonable accommodations during the application/interview process and for essential job functions • $3,000 referral reward for a Senior Manager or above role, paid if the referral is hired • Inclusive and accessible work environment