Director of Human Resources (SF)
Company: Aspirion
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: May 2, 2024
Job Description:
The Skoll Foundation was created by Jeff Skoll in 1999 to pursue
his vision of a more peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world.
The mission of the Skoll Foundation is to drive large-scale change
by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs
and the innovators who help them solve the world's most pressing
problems. Social entrepreneurs are society's change agents-creators
of innovations that disrupt the status quo and transform our world
for the better. By identifying the people and programs already
enacting positive change throughout the world, the Foundation
empowers them to extend their reach, deepen their impact, and
fundamentally improve society.The Skoll Foundation has invested
approximately $470 million worldwide, including the Skoll Award to
128 social entrepreneurs and 106 organizations on five
continents.This is a full-time position based in Palo Alto, CA. For
more information on The Skoll Foundation, please visit
http://skoll.org/ .The OpportunityThe Skoll Foundation is looking
for an experienced, innovative HR professional to lead the
Foundation's Human Resources function. This function helps maintain
the Foundation as a world class organization by enabling our people
to achieve the organization's mission and strategies. The Director
of HR accomplishes this by identifying and implementing processes
and policies that strengthen a collaborative, diverse,
results-oriented community of highly motivated individuals. The HR
Director leads the Foundation's employment life-cycle practices and
will provide vital input to organizational health and strategy. The
Director serves as our in-house expert on HR policies and
compliance matters, as well as on innovative emerging practices.
They manage HR service providers, including recruiters and our
Professional Employment Organization vendor. Reporting to the
Foundation's Chief Operating Officer, the HR Director manages an HR
Operations Manager who supports HR functions, general office and
payroll operations.The Director of Human Resources will have
oversight of the following:Play a lead role in the Foundation's
imperative to be a high-performing results-oriented
organization
- Work with executives and staff to set performance goals that
align with the Foundation's goals and priorities. and the
individual and team attributes essential to achieve them
- Design and nurture practices and systems for evaluating and
strengthening the individual and team attributes vital to achieving
these goals
- Provide insights and guidance in strategic and program planning
exercises
- Work with staff to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion are
primary in all decision makingManage the Foundation's employment
life-cycle processes with the purpose of recruiting and engaging a
diverse workforce that lives our values and who collectively will
achieve our mission
- Job design, recruiting, staffing and transition processes
- Staff learning, effectiveness and development programs
- Individual and organization performance management process
- The Foundation's total compensation policies and practices,
including external benchmarking and calibration
- Evaluating and improving alignment of the processes and
policies with Foundation's values, culture and objectivesBuild and
manage an HR function aligned with the Skoll Foundation's values
and objectives, reflecting best and emerging practices
- Design, recommend and implement service delivery strategies,
including systems, staff responsibilities and outsourcing
opportunities
- Manage relationships with key external HR service providers and
partners, assessing performance and value received
- Ensure compliance with relevant employment laws and
regulations
- Identify and apply best practices and innovations to our
workplace
- Manage HR policies and maintain our Employee
HandbookQualificationsThe ideal candidate for this position will
possess many, if not all, of the following professional
qualifications and personal qualities:
- Outstanding interpersonal skills; excellent listener and coach
with good judgment, honesty, and integrity; successful at bringing
out the best in others and instilling trust
- Takes a rigorous "system", data driven approach to solving
problems and making decisions
- Demonstrated ease in an environment of both intellectual rigor
and meticulous attention to detail; a critical and creative
thinker; inspiring collaborator
- A solutions-oriented problem solver and resourceful
self-starter, comfortable navigating through ambiguity and multiple
priorities
- Adept at modelling clarity and accountability for their own
commitments and for all of us
- Adept at modelling respect for each individual while holding
the whole in service to the organization and its agreed upon
mission
- Experience in management of, or in depth exposure to, multiple
aspects of the People Operations/HR function, with a distinguished
record of accomplishments and growth. Desired areas of expertise
include:
- Talent acquisition, assessment and development
- Organization and culture assessment, alignment and
development
- Leveraging and managing third party service provider
relationships
- Success managing the HR function in an ambitious and adaptive
small organization
- Diversity, equity and inclusion programming
- Demonstrated ability to work respectfully and sensitively with
diverse people and communities
- Positive and successful direct management experience
- A sincere affinity for the Foundation's work and values
- Minimum of 7 to 10 years of relevant work experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and
experienceTo ApplyErin Reedy and Alicia Salerno of Koya Leadership
Partners have been engaged by The Skoll Foundation to help in this
hire. Please submit a compelling cover letter and resume here . The
Skoll Foundation is an equal opportunity employer and strongly
encourages applications from people of color, persons with
disabilities, women, and LGBT applicants.About Koya Leadership
PartnersKoya Leadership Partners is a national retained -executive
-search and human capital consulting firm that works exclusively
with mission-driven organizations, institutions of higher education
and social enterprises. We deliver measurable results, finding
exceptionally talented people who truly fit the unique culture of
our client organizations and -ensuring that organizations have the
resources and strategies to support them. -For more information,
visit -www.koyapartners.com .
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