Head of HR Programs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior HR partner for international programme leadership on workforce, employee relations, leadership, and organizational capability issues.

• Assist programme leaders with employment and contracting arrangements tailored to programme duration, funding conditions, and operational requirements.

• Offer senior HR counsel in intricate, resource-limited environments.

• Oversee workforce planning and contracting strategies across diverse operational contexts.

• Provide guidance on complex personnel, safeguarding, and duty of care issues, facilitating timely and appropriate resolutions.

• Maintain oversight of critical personnel and safeguarding matters, ensuring proper escalation procedures are followed.

• Relay significant personnel and safeguarding considerations to Executive and Board stakeholders.

• Interpret and implement global HR policies in various local and legal frameworks.

• Assist in fulfilling legal, safeguarding, and people-management responsibilities across multiple jurisdictions.

• Support HR assurance reviews concerning workforce practices, employee relations, safeguarding, duty of care, and people management.

• Evaluate workforce risks, control effectiveness, compliance, emerging risks, and opportunities for improvement.

• Facilitate corrective actions following assurance reviews.

• Enhance people-management capabilities through coaching, mentoring, training, performance, development, and succession support.

• Manage and nurture the Regional HR network.

• Ensure HALO values and standards are reflected in personnel decisions and leadership behaviors.

• Function as the main liaison between programme teams and HR Operations.

• Collaborate with the Head of HR Operations on common standards, escalation protocols, and case management.

• Uphold HALO’s values, mission, policies, code of conduct, and safeguarding standards.

• Willingness to travel occasionally to global programmes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive leadership experience, particularly in international, multi-jurisdictional, or complex operational settings.

• Proven track record of effectively managing remote teams across various countries or regions.

• Experience in providing senior-level advice to non-HR leadership and functioning autonomously in ambiguous or rapidly changing situations.

• Ability to appropriately calibrate HR responses, distinguishing between complex, high-risk cases and those that can be resolved in a pragmatic and proportionate manner.

• Profound expertise in employee relations, safeguarding, and managing intricate people issues in international settings.

• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and regulations across multiple jurisdictions.

• Advanced professional judgment in ambiguous, high-risk circumstances.

• Capability to translate complex risks into clear, decision-oriented advice.

• Strong understanding of implementing a safeguarding assurance framework.

• High credibility and gravitas with senior operational leaders.

• Ability to influence without authority; confident in challenging situations.

• Composed, measured, and values-driven under pressure.

• Strong ethical judgment and organizational awareness.

• Capacity to develop and lead HR teams across various jurisdictions.

• Experience in a not-for-profit or global matrix organization is desirable.

• Knowledge of international employment law is a plus.

• Submit a CV of no more than 2 pages and a tailored cover letter of no more than 1 page.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave plus 8 statutory holidays.

• Non-contributory life assurance.

• Private medical insurance.

• Pension contributions matched by HALO up to 5%.

• Emergency medical insurance while traveling overseas.

• Flexible working policy.