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People & Culture Director

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  • Harare
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World Vision

Helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty

With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type

Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

JOB TITLE: PEOPLE & CULTURE (HR) DIRECTOR

LOCATION: HARARE

PURPOSE OF POSITION

To provide strategic leadership to WV Zimbabwe in the area of people management & organisational development in order to optimise organisational performance, fulfill World Vision’s mission, vision, and core values, and to contribute to the measurable improvement of the well-being of vulnerable children and communities in Zimbabwe. The P&C Director is primarily responsible for developing and promoting P&C strategy, leadership development and sustainability, staff and organisational well-being, performance and accountability culture, diverse and talented workforce with the right set of mindsets and behaviours, internal and external networking for greater impact and a professional and sustainable P&C function in the organisation.

Major Responsibilities

Section I – JOB DESCRIPTION/ PUBLICATION TEXT

Strategy development and execution

  • Provide strategic guidance and input to the senior leadership team in the alignment and execution of the National Office Strategy and business plans with Our Promise.
  • Develop and implement the People and Culture (P&C) strategy and business plan in support of and in alignment with country, regional and global strategic priorities.
  • Spearhead the monitoring and reporting of people & culture metrics related to talent acquisition, development, retention, partnering for performance, employee engagement and organisational leadership.
  • Serve and contribute as a member of the Crisis Management Team to ensure safety and security of staff. Serve as a member of the National Disaster Management Team, as applicable.

Strategy development and execution

  • Provide strategic guidance and input to the senior leadership team in the alignment and execution of the National Office Strategy and business plans with Our Promise.
  • Develop and implement the People and Culture (P&C) strategy and business plan in support of and in alignment with country, regional and global strategic priorities.
  • Spearhead the monitoring and reporting of people & culture metrics related to talent acquisition, development, retention, partnering for performance, employee engagement and organisational leadership.
  • Serve and contribute as a member of the Crisis Management Team to ensure safety and security of staff. Serve as a member of the National Disaster Management Team, as applicable.

Promoting Leadership quality and sustainability

  • Build the capacity, depth and breadth of National Office and Projects leadership to meet the evolving leadership needs, to realise Our Promise and to enable transformational mindsets and behaviours.
  • Identify and nurture globally, regionally and in-country mobile talent to support leadership and career development, succession planning and retention of high potential managers and leaders in fragile and conflict areas and to prepare a pipeline for future leadership for grants.
  • Design and spearhead the development of staff capacity, including mindsets and behaviors, to work effectively in fragile contexts.
  • Design and execute an orientation and on-boarding strategy that will enable staff to understand Our Promise and its implications on World Vision’s work in different contexts, including fragile.

Ensuring Staff engagement and well-being

  • Maximise staff well-being to enable staff to embrace the opportunities and challenges in meeting Our Promise. Contextualise, promote and support systems, services and programs for staff well-being.
  • Execute the Our Voice survey and leverage the results to enhance Staff and Organisational Well-being. Together with the senior leadership team, plan and drive measurable improvements in Organisational Leadership, Culture, Agility and Effectiveness.
  • Strengthen the quality of Staff Care and Peer Support interventions especially in fragile, response and conflict areas.
  • Identify the organisational culture gaps and plan culture change interventions to promote leadership and staff mindset & behaviour changes to deliver our promise to the most vulnerable children.
  • Design and execute compensation and benefits strategy, systems and processes in alignment to Our Promise that enable the organisation to attract and retain required staff for fragile contexts.

Promoting Accountability and performance culture

  • Lead structure realignment processes to match program requirements, including pre-positioning for emergency responses.
  • Spearhead the partnering for performance process.
  • Review and contextualise global and regional P&C Policies to National Office P&C policies for international assignees and national staff and ensure alignment with Country labour laws.
  • Ensure people management risks are identified and the organisation regularly reviews and implements adequate risk mitigation measures for fragile, conflict and response areas.
  • Provide leadership in educating staff on employee relations and investigations protocol and ensure cases are managed confidentially and promptly.
  • Promote a culture of faith literacy and awareness of diversity. Encourage staff Christian formation, spiritual nurture and promote principles for effective interfaith engagement in multi-faith contexts, as appropriate.

Developing Capable and available workforce

  • Spearhead the acquisition and prepositioning of a diverse and talented workforce using work force planning
  • Ensure that the National Office recruitment policy, system and processes are well established for acquiring talent with required competencies, mindsets and behaviours required to realise Our Promise.
  • Ensure monitoring and reporting systems for national & international hires are effectively managed.
  • Promote gender diversity through appropriate identification of talent at all levels.

Developing a strategic, agile and customer driven People & Culture Team

  • Ensure that the People & Culture function has the required capacity, capability, systems, processes, policies and guidelines to drive transformation of mindsets and behaviours and realisation of Our Promise.
  • Promote a customer centric culture in the People & Culture function, ensuring professionalism and accountability in delivering services to staff and leaders.
  • Provide overall leadership and technical support to the P&C team, coaching and mentoring the team through regular meetings, sharing and monitoring individual plans to support professional growth and development.
  • Design efficient P&C systems and processes with a particular focus on process excellence and ensure that Workday information system is fully operational with accurate and complete information for decision making

Promoting external and internal coordination

  • Establish proactive linkages and strategic networks with key International NGOs and other stakeholders at the national and international level for broader impact and also to keep abreast of the ongoing changes in the external environment that affects the fragile context operations.
  • Consistently develop and maintain effective working relationships with Regional P&C, SLT and different departments including field based program managers.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Minimum education, training and experience requirements to qualify for the position:

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business Management or Social Sciences.
  • Master’s Degree in the relevant field is an added advantage.
  • Technical Training qualifications required: Professional qualifications in Human Resource Management, Organisational Development (OD) or Leadership Development.
  • Experience: Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a Senior Human Resources Management position in an international organization.
  • Ability to engage at a strategic level with senior leadership teams at national and regional level
  • Ability to lead a multi-cultural team with an empowering and outcome-oriented approach
  • Visionary thinking and understanding of humanitarian operations
  • Proven record of managing people in a diverse cross-cultural setting
  • Strong ability to lead and implement organizational changes
  • Spiritual maturity and a biblical worldview – Ability to articulate and model our Christian identity and mission in an inclusive way.
  • Familiarity with INGO international staffing policies and sound knowledge of Regional/ Country labour laws.
  • Demonstration of well-developed influencing and negotiation skills, excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Highly flexible and agile in style with the ability to produce creative and pragmatic solutions to complex Human Resources problems.
  • Proven conceptual & analytical skills and systems thinking.
  • Agile decision making – Ability to understand large organizations and solve complex problems
  • Personal resilience in the face of complex and evolving contexts.
  • Strong financial management skills.
  • The candidate should have a personal calling and passion for service.

List additional work experience required as a minimum qualification for this position.

  • Experience working with different country labour laws.
  • Experience in risk management in high risk and sensitive environments.

License, Registration, Or Certification Required To Perform This Position

  • Enterprise Risk Management Training
  • Staff care and Critical Incident Stress Management training
  • Certification in trauma counselling or certain basic training in this area
  • Context monitoring training

Preferred Skills, Knowledge And Experience

  • Visionary thinking and understanding of humanitarian operations in fragile contexts.
  • Proven record of managing people in a diverse cross-cultural and interfaith settings and initiating and implementing organisational change in restricted and fragile contexts.
  • Spiritual maturity, interfaith knowledge and a biblical worldview – Ability to articulate and model our Christian identity and mission in an inclusive way.

Additional Work Experience Preferred For This Position.

  • Experience in emergency response scenario planning process.
  • Peer mentoring and coaching from a seasoned leader who has worked in these contexts long enough.

Work Environment

  • The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time.

Section II – POSITION DESCRIPTION QUESTIONNAIRE

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Contact (Within/ outside WV) – Country Program Director

Reason For Contact – Line Manager – Direction & support

Frequency of Contact (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) – Daily- As and when needed

Contact (Within/ outside WV) – Regional P&C Director

Reason For Contact – Line Manager –Matrix Manager – Strategic priorities and coaching support

Frequency of Contact (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) – Monthly- As and when needed

Contact (Within/ outside WV) – Senior Leadership team

Reason For Contact -Peers-Collaboration

Frequency of Contact (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) – Daily – As and when needed

Contact (Within/ outside WV) – P&C Staff

Reason For Contact -Managing the team – Work execution

Frequency of Contact (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) – Daily

Contact (Within/ outside WV) – INGO and external stakeholders

Reason For Contact – Networking and collaborating – Information sharing and context awareness

Frequency of Contact (Daily, Weekly, Monthly) – Monthly

Interpersonal Skills

  • Motivate and inspire staff and leadership to work in challenging and high risk areas.
  • Inspire staff commitment to work for the most vulnerable children in war/ conflict zones.

Shortlisting will be done on a rolling basis.

Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Applicant Types Accepted

Local Applicants Only