Director, People and Culture

February 1

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Thousand Currents

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Thousand Currents is a registered 501(c)(3) charity that supports bold solutions for climate, food, and economic justice by moving resources to grassroots movements in the Global South. For nearly four decades, Thousand Currents has invested more than $31 million in over 1,000 grassroots and movement formations. The organization values collective power and change, developing long-term relationships with visionary grassroots movements led by women, youth, Black, Afro-descent, and Indigenous Peoples. Thousand Currents influences philanthropic giving towards climate justice, economic systems based on ecological regeneration, and food sovereignty, putting communities at the center of decision-making regarding food systems and policies.

grantmaking • Social justice • Food Sovereignty • Climate Justice • Economic Justice

11 - 50 employees

Founded 1999

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

🤝 Non-profit

📋 Description

• Collaboratively assess people & organization strengthening needs and define a strategy to meet them that aligns to organizational strategy and values. • Provide leadership and direction to ensure compliance with employment-related laws and regulations, guide management and employee actions accordingly and mitigate risks. • Define annual workplan priorities and budget, ensuring regular budget monitoring and defining and tracking select organizational/human resource metrics. • Serve as a thought partner to the VP of Operations oriented toward continuous improvement in the organization’s policies, processes, and practices related to people and culture. • Maintain knowledge of industry trends and best practices in people & talent and organizational strengthening, including regular engagement with peers in the field. • Proactively advise the Executive Team on critical People & Culture matters. • Collaborate with the Executive Team and hiring managers to assess current and likely future staffing requirements. • Oversee development of role descriptions with hiring managers and appropriate placement (subject to Executive Team approval) on the organizational salary scale. • Develop strategies to identify talent and ensure robust and equitable talent recruitment processes. • Support and mentor hiring managers to effectively play their role in recruitment and hiring processes. • Conduct general HR onboarding and orientation for new employees. Ensure standardized, effective onboarding and orientation practices that effectively orient new staff to critical elements of organizational culture, process and programs, gathering periodic feedback to inform continuous learning and improvement in onboarding. • Support Executive Team members to maintain and update staffing contingency and succession planning to further organizational resilience through planned and unplanned changes. • Oversee, and conduct as appropriate, exit interviews; analyze offboarding data to surface learnings and recommendations to the organization. • Serve as a partner for supervisors, supporting them in carrying out their responsibilities on personnel matters and enabling supervision that is generative, consistent, clear and rooted in authentic relationships and thoughtful navigation of power and difference, aligned with Thousand Currents’ management charter. • Work with supervisors to assess organizational and any team-specific needs and assist with identifying professional learning and growth opportunities. • Monitor and assess the effectiveness of training and professional development programs utilized by staff. • Facilitate ongoing strengthening of feedback culture and mechanisms as well as conflict resolution; providing coaching and support opportunities as needed. • Oversee and regularly assess and improve performance management processes that facilitate ongoing constructive feedback, and performance improvement plans as needed, ensuring cross-organizational consistency. • Assess and advance employee engagement and satisfaction, including by proactively engaging employees to improve working relationships, build morale, and support retention. Identify emerging problems or areas of misalignment in the organization, developing responses in coordination with the Vice President of Operations. • Communicate and administer HR policies and procedures, providing relevant training and supports to staff. • Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues; where applicable, conduct investigations in ways aligned with organizational policy and values. • Ensure Thousand Currents maintains effective compensation and benefits plans, proposing adjustments, as necessary, and administering a consistent, equitable and progressive compensation approach that is aligned with organizational values and budget. • Support negotiation of appropriate benefits packages that account for the geographically dispersed nature of Thousand Currents’ staff and manage relationships with benefits brokers and related vendors. • Serve as point-of-contact for complex HR policy and practice questions. • Oversee HR administration and maximize implementation of the human resources information system (HRIS). • Attract, develop, coach, and retain high-performance People & Culture team members, supporting them to elevate their level of responsibility, span of control, and performance. • Promote a positive organizational culture of continuous learning, experimentation and improvement. • Thoughtfully navigate power differentials, inviting feedback and practicing self-awareness. • Clearly communicate expectations and delegation of roles, decision-making processes. • Effectively support flow of information from the team to the organization and the organization to the team. • Model and facilitate practices of care and support for realistic workloads. • Foster a collaborative, aligned, and joyful work environment. • Show up fully for organizational activities, including staff meetings, retreats and trainings. • Enable appropriate information-sharing and work collaboratively with colleagues as necessary for cross program activities and functions; Pitch in when needed for organization-wide activities, such as the Thousand Currents Academy, annual events, fundraising drives, etc. • Manage regular personal administration, including timely submission of receipts, reimbursement requests, scheduling, travel planning, filing HR paperwork etc.

🎯 Requirements

• Ten or more years of relevant, comparable professional experience including a track record of experience as an HR professional aligning HR good practice with organizational values. • SHRM certification is considered an asset. • Demonstrated creative systems builder/thinker with experience supporting and developing HR initiatives for staff working virtually and located in diverse contexts and timezones. • Highly approachable, with demonstrated experience building respectful relationships across diverse identities and cultures and engaging in collaborative problem solving. • Attuned people manager, able to leverage individuals’ strengths and foster a culture of collaboration and accountability • Skilled at using technology and other resources for remote/virtual work and culture strengthening. • Able to travel internationally - approximately 2 weeks/year - and work occasional irregular hours to accommodate staff time zones.