We strive to attract, motivate and develop people needed to fulfill our missions. As a result, our Global Benefits and Compensation programs are designed to provide offerings that sustain a healthy and financially secure workforce. We currently seek a senior leader to join our People and Place Engagement team to lead the development and implementation of the foundation’s Global Benefits and Compensation strategies supporting programs in the U.S. and internationally.
The Deputy Director, Global Benefits and Compensation will be responsible to:
- Coach, develop and lead direct reports to ensure the team delivers and develops a compelling and competitive offering for foundation employees that respect and represent our culture.
- Participate as an active member of the People & Place Engagement Leadership Team that develops and tracks the foundation’s goals, strategies, and initiatives.
- Closely collaborate with peers across the People & Place Client Experience areas (e.g., Strategy, Development, and Platform).
- Oversee optimal utilization of the Global Benefits & Compensation budget and resources.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Strong track record of excellent people leadership and developing effective teams.
- An outstanding communicator who can articulate complex issues with clarity and delivers a compelling view of the future state while forging relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Mentor and develop a small innovative, dynamic team of staff, search firms and outside research and sourcing, ensuring they develop against business demands and provide with rewarding career paths.
- Lead the Global Benefits and Compensation team by providing leadership, coaching, performance management and development, day to day work prioritization, project facilitation and problem solving. This may include hiring the talent needed to achieve our goals, ensuring successful employee onboarding, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, integrating project and change management, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, and recognizing achievement and lessons learned.
Develop and implement strategic foundation-wide compensation, benefits, recognition and rewards philosophy and subsequent programs and policies.
- Lead the research, design, communication and implementation of the Global Benefits and Compensation strategy and its alignment to our Compensation Philosophy.
- Provide the foundation with improved compensation decision-making tools and transactional processing capabilities.
- Lead strategic initiatives related to benefits design and administration; including the continual evaluation of the effectiveness of benefit programs, practices and procedures in relation to the strategic objectives and recommending new benefits.
- Provide pay recommendations for executive/leadership level hires as well as overall budget determination for foundation-wide increases.
- Approval of compensation decisions outside normal guidelines.
- Benefit vendor, and compensation consultant support needs.
- The purchase and/or implementation of system-based solutions both internally and sourced through external vendors.
We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment in which they thrive, will do phenomenal things.
We are looking for people who enjoy the challenge of working on complex projects and collaboratively creating solutions that have the potential for transformational change. We seek an experienced total rewards leader with experience in large organization(s) recognized for innovation and excellence in compensation, benefits, and global mobility
- 15+ years of experience in human resources with at least five years building best-in-class Global Benefits and Compensation programs in complex, international environments where strong alignment with multiple internal stakeholders is essential for success.
- Strong business acumen and ability to tie department objectives to larger organizational goals.
- Strong judgment with a demonstrated ability to handle complex issues, multiple tasks, confidential information, and competing priorities with skill, discretion, a strong attention to detail, flexibility and diplomacy.
- Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills. S/he must possess strong relationship management skills to build trusting and productive relationships with a wide range of internal and external collaborators, partners and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead high performing, professional-level teams including demonstrated ability to attract, assess, hire, develop, coach, reward/recognize, and retain employees; including managers and individual contributors.
- Consultative, influential, facilitative and collaborative with an ability to engage with, establish credibility and influence internal customers including at the most senior / executive levels.
- Intellectual quickness, curiosity, discipline, resourcefulness and resilience.
- Knowledge of trends, legislative activity and regulatory issues that affect compensation and benefits.
- Comprehensive knowledge of compensation and benefits programs and design.
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills to successfully interact with and influence individuals at all levels of the organization and with a broad and diverse audience.
- Ability to travel up to 20% domestically and internationally.
- Demonstrated passion for the Foundation’s values with a commitment to deliver results against our mission.