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Vice President of People, Values and Culture

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Cincinnati, OH, USA
Full-time

Reporting to and working closely with the Chief Operations Officer, the VP will create and implement a multi-faceted vision and strategy for the organization’s culture, equity work, and talent, results and performance management work.

Areas of Responsibility: 

Culture and Equity

  • Foster a culture of accountability, trust, recognition and results among team members at all levels consistent with the short and long-term objectives of StriveTogether.
  • Develop annual People, Values and Culture goals and plans aligned with StriveTogether’s commitment to create a welcoming, inclusive and empowering organizational culture.
  • Track and assess the progress to organizational culture goals, as well as analyzing, troubleshooting and building processes for ongoing systemic learning and continuous improvement.
  • Develop, direct and monitor strategies aimed at maintaining a healthy workplace culture including:
    • Programs and initiatives related to employee communications in partnership with the leadership team.
    • Engagement and relations across all of the organization’s programs and offices, including addressing components of workplace culture that impede organizational and individual effectiveness.
  • Lead the organization’s employee engagement and retention initiatives to increase organizational, programmatic and individual performance and ensure team members feel engaged, recognized, valued and supported.

Talent Management

  • Implement our organizational staffing plan which includes significant staff growth within the next three years in support of StriveTogether’s 2030 strategic plan.
  • Lead our talent management strategy to ensure a successful talent pipeline and onboarding process including staff training and development, building racial equity skills and competencies.
  • Oversee, develop, and execute talent acquisition and retention strategies including the creation of job descriptions, compensation systems, hiring processes, professional development, diversity and inclusion strategies, and measurement programs to successfully enter a period of team growth and expansion.
  • Update our compensation policies and implement changes necessary to ensure an equitable and sustainable compensation package for all team members.
  • Design and implement integrated talent management solutions including, executive coaching, individual development planning, talent reviews, succession planning and leadership development.
  • Guide and monitor progress of high potential employees and identify positions that provide quality developmental opportunities; fostering a culture that integrates succession planning across the organization.
  • Lead and develop results-driven performance management tools and processes that integrate with the organization’s values and core competencies.
  • Oversee, develop and implement a progressive total rewards program balancing organizational resources with the need to maintain the organization’s competitive position in the marketplace.

Results and performance management

  • Improve performance management systems.
  • Provide leadership to critical and organization-wide initiatives including organizational structure changes and counseling leaders on change management.
  • Invoke organizational performance through leadership – linking strategy to structure, building transformational change approaches and facilitating complex organizational issues.
  • Identify and recommend opportunities to improve and align supporting systems; creates and implements an integrated approach to talent and culture management.
  • Influence organizational decision-making with the use of relevant, value-added metrics. Analyze and report on the same in a manner aligning with and supporting the organization’s strategic, short- and long-term business objectives.

Other Responsibilities

  • Provide active, intentional leadership to the People, Values and Culture team; provide timely positive and constructive feedback; monitor the accomplishment of team and individual goals and objectives; and foster an environment of continuous learning consistent with the needs of the organization, team and the individual team members.
  • Advise the leadership team on the full range of People, Values and Culture oversight and effectively implement strategies and action steps for new or improved programs, policies and processes to affect defined organizational outcomes and mitigate risk.
  • Lead efforts to streamline People, Values and Culture workflows, data collection and analysis, communications, and reporting to increase the efficiency of the function.
  • Partner with the Chief Operating Officer on special projects and organizational-wide priorities.
Skills/Experience: 

We will consider a variety of personal and professional experiences; however, a successful candidate will be able to demonstrate past experience in the majority of areas of responsibility outlined above. Please review them for job requirements.

  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience including as an organizational talent and culture leader for a social impact or non-profit organization or in a significant role that had decision-making authority around culture policies and practices
  • Demonstrated ability to support executive leadership
  • Experience in the social service sector, results orientation and strong commitment to racial equity required
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, including experience communicating complex topics to audiences with a range of familiarity
    Ability to think strategically, translate thoughts to action and follow-through with all details
  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams and large projects with organizational-wide impact
  • Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills; ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Ability to be self-directed and independent, with a track record of taking initiative and “managing up”
  • Ability to work on several tasks simultaneously, with experience organizing and prioritizing work quickly in response to changing needs
    Experience crafting and/or implementing an equitable pay/compensation program a plus
  • Approximately 25% travel required
Compensation/Benefits: 

Position details

This is an exempt position with a salary of $128,000 - $192,000. StriveTogether offers competitive salary and benefits, commensurate with experience, skills and location. This position can be remote or work out of the Cincinnati, Ohio, office.

Benefits, perks and flexibility

  • Paid time off: sick, vacation, personal,
  • floating/wellness holiday, bereavement, jury duty, 11 paid company holidays and a paid winter break. 
  • Medical and dental plans
  • 100% paid vision, short-term and long-term disability and basic life insurance.
  • Cell Phone and internet stipend
  • Competitive retirement plan with automatic employer contribution and a match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Professional development
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Paid sabbatical
  • Remote work opportunities available
  • Affinity groups for our community
  • Choice of Mac or PC
  • Bi-annual cross-organization pay equity analysis and adjustments

Headquarters:

  • Hybrid work model – two work from home days each week
  • Dog friendly office
  • Roof top deck
  • Snacks and beverages

Applications and cover letters are due by May 22, 2023. 

StriveTogether is an equal opportunity employer.

Organization Info

StriveTogether

Overview
Headquarters: 
Cincinnati, OH
Annual Budget : 
$10-50M
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
2017
About Us
Mission: 

We support communities to build their own solutions to change systems so that race, ethnicity, zip code and circumstance do not dictate a child’s future.

Programs: 

StriveTogether is a national movement with a clear purpose: helping every child succeed in school and in life from cradle to career, regardless of race, ethnicity, zip code or circumstance. We refuse to settle for a world where a child’s potential is dictated by the conditions into which they are born, so we work together to break down barriers, change systems, and improve lives. In partnership with nearly 70 communities across the country, we provide coaching, resources and rigorous approaches to create opportunities and close gaps in education, housing and so much more. We use data to illuminate problems and solutions, tackle tough conversations and deliver impactful results for 13 million children and counting.

Why Work For Us?: 

Our core values

  • Community: We focus on what connects us and communicate to each other with transparency and integrity.
  • Courage: We fail forward even if no one is watching, have the tough conversations no one likes having and take risks in pursuit of results.
  • Equity: We seek and value all types of diversity, put equity into action daily and strive to dismantle inequities, including those present in ourselves, our organization and our communities.
  • Progress: We share learning in real time, view professional development as personal growth and fix problems through collaborative improvement.
  • Results: We use data and evidence to make decisions and hold each other accountable for getting results.
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Listing Stats

Post Date: 
May 9 2023
Active Until: 
Jun 9 2023
Hiring Organization: 
StriveTogether
industry: 
Nonprofit