Relationship Building
Provide strategic guidance and tactical support to leadership team members of various departments, working across all of our global offices. This includes face-to-face, which may require travel from time to time, and remotely.
Build and maintain healthy relationships with key stakeholders within your group and the larger organization.
Coach and develop leaders and managers to improve their communication practices, hold team members accountable, have courageous (difficult) conversations, and inspire and influence their teams.
Change Management
Proactive and hands-on project oversight of change management processes, often with a variety of stakeholders, that mitigates risks and anticipates and addresses areas of potential escalation.
Coaching leaders throughout the change process, including aspects such as project management of the change process, preparing communication materials, implementation, and collecting and integrating feedback.
Strategic Guidance
Work closely with leadership team members to address current and future talent needs, informing organizational design and succession planning.
As needed, investigate workplace issues and work collaboratively with country-level HR Managers to address employee-related concerns and questions.
Understand organizational challenges and design or implement creative solutions with relevant stakeholders.
Share knowledge and insights with the wider people team to help shape best practices from a people perspective.
Synthesize themes and observations to provide insights that contribute to the People Team's overall understanding of the learning and development needs across the leadership and management levels.
Performance Management
Work with the Director of People and Head of People Programs and Engagement to implement strategies to drive high performance and employee engagement.
Promote positive employee relations in partnership with all members of the leadership team.
Support leaders and managers in cultivating a high-performance culture, cultivating performance management experiences are effective and empowering.
Coach leaders and managers to proactively identify underperformance and address it professionally and swiftly.
Guide leaders and managers to develop and implement staff retention, career growth and professional development, feedback, and succession strategies for their teams.
Qualifications
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
8 years' experience working in an administrative function, with 4 of those being in an HR role, HRBP experience is required.
Extremely organized and able to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, juggling multiple competing priorities and responsibilities.
Skilled at coaching managers to be effective with their team members.
Ability to help guide organizational design with the leadership team and develop associated communications and change management.
Adaptive and able to quickly switch or entirely change activities to meet team needs
Very high attention to detail.
Exceptional judgment in maintaining confidentiality of employee and candidate information
Have a clear and confident communication style to manage stakeholder expectations and to bring stakeholders along in changes across the organization or team.
Must be curious and seek to learn and improve whilst instilling solutions wherever appropriate
Comfortable collaborating and building relationships across all levels of the organization, especially with executive stakeholders.
Aligned with our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below) and learn more by looking at Educate!'s culture deck here.