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Rewiring America has grown from 5 to 33 full-time employees in the first nine months of 2022, and our growth trajectory is projected to continue at a similar pace through 2023. With a clear and inspiring vision, smart strategies, and significant and sustained financial support, we are growing our team and seeking an entrepreneurial Senior Director of People & Culture. This position reports to the organization’s Chief of Staff.
In order to equitably transform the energy market, we believe a consumer-driven, neighborhood-up movement is needed. We believe that a groundswell of demand for electrification, along with a top tier team of climate champions, is necessary to achieve the vision of an electrified economy.
In this newly created position, the Senior Director of People & Culture is a highly strategic and hands-on leader with proven ability to develop and drive strategic human resource functions. They are passionate about solving the climate crisis and see themselves as part of shaping the movement by helping to build Rewiring America’s team and culture.
The Senior Director partners with the CEO, Chief of Staff and other senior leadership to play a key role in the implementation of a growth / scaling plan that reflects our core values around racial equity, ersity, inclusion and climate justice and that supports strong retention. Because Rewiring America is fiscally sponsored with payroll and benefits administration handled by the fiscal sponsor, the Senior Director will build out other aspects of the employee experience from the ground up, including performance management systems and the co-creation of a best-in-class workplace.
< class="h3">What You’ll doThe inaugural Senior Director of People & Culture holds key responsibilities that will evolve over time as the team grows and functions are distributed. During the first year of the role, we anticipate a focus on the following:
Organizational Culture Building
- In partnership with the Chief of Staff and key consultants, develop and implement Rewiring America’s ersity, equity and inclusion efforts, integrating best-in-class practices into recruitment, hiring, team building, culture setting, and professional development/advancement, while centering equity in all programs and operations.
- Play a key role in the building of an organizational culture that is values- and purpose-driven, team-centered, inclusive, results-oriented, and joyful, rewarding performance, productivity, positivity, and all-around collegiality.
- Develop and implement an inspired and distinctive approach to all internal communications, all-hands meetings, and organizational culture building opportunities for a nationally distributed team.
Performance Management
- With senior leadership, develop standards of skills and competencies at different position levels and commensurate salary bands, providing staff with clarity of advancement opportunities and performance expectations.
- Establish Rewiring’s performance management program, including annual goal setting and performance evaluation processes.
- Create learning and professional development programs and initiatives that provide meaningful internal opportunities for employees.
- Provide guidance around best practice and current trends in supporting strong productivity, recognition, morale-boosting, and team-building initiatives and practices, particularly for a fully remote / nationally distributed team.
- Prioritize occupational health and safety for Rewiring America team members, particularly around travel and team offsites.
- Develop policies and tools to support performance improvement processes and oversee corrective action programs, terminations, and investigations.
- Provide training and guidance to managers around strong performance management practices.
Talent Acquisition & Retention
- Support strong execution of a plan to build an internal people and culture team that is fully staffed to support Rewiring’s rapid growth trajectory.
- With senior leadership, identify staffing and recruiting needs and develop innovative recruitment pipelines and hiring and talent management processes that are rooted in best practice in racial equity, ersity, and inclusion.
- Manage recruiters and consultants focused on talent acquisition, collaborating with departmental managers to understand skills and competencies required for hiring needs.
- Leverage Rewiring America’s communications assets to reach broad and erse audiences of prospective applicants and to tell the story of Rewiring’s outstanding workplace culture.
- Develop an equity-centered compensation philosophy, leading compensation studies and providing rationale and guidance for salary setting, increases, promotions, and bonuses, if appropriate.
- Analyze current trends in compensation and benefits; research and propose competitive base and innovative benefits programs to ensure the organization attracts and retains top talent.
- Ensure strong implementation of Rewiring’s onboarding and orientation process and practices, seeking innovation and respecting different learning styles.
Team & Departmental Management
- Develop and implement policies, processes, training, and initiatives to support human resource compliance.
- Partner with Rewiring’s fiscal sponsor as needed to ensure compliance with all federal regulations.
- Design, recruit, hire, and manage the People and Culture team (#FTE TBD), including establishing annual objectives (to support overall organizational goals), provide regular feedback and appropriate recognition, conduct annual performance reviews, and support ongoing professional development.
Requirements
The incoming Senior Director of People & Culture is driven by a belief in and commitment to Rewiring America’s vision and mission. Through their track record and expertise as a human resource professional, the successful candidate will develop and drive Rewiring’s employee experience and strategic human resource function to meet the needs of a rapidly growing team. The Senior Director builds authentic and lasting relationships with Rewiring’s team members, listening to their interests and goals and engaging with them as partners in Rewiring’s mission and organizational culture building. The Senior Director is creative and ambitious, with the practicality and know-how to generate momentum and scale. Ideal candidates bring a mix of expertise in equity work and experience in human resources, talent management, and organizational development.
The successful Senior Director of People & Culture joins a fast-paced team that operates with a sense of urgency and a track record of success in science, technology, business, policy, and politics. The Senior Director is entrepreneurial and has the experience of growing / scaling a successful people function within a start-up at Rewiring America’s particular stage of growth. Rewiring America has the opportunity to take its work to the next level and seeks a leader with ambition, determination, and the ability to instill confidence, trust, and inspiration.
This role requires an ethos of collegiality, strong collaboration skills, and the ability to manage through influence in a matrixed team. Despite the enormity of the challenges that lie ahead, Rewiring America’s leadership understands how to celebrate successes and seeks a Senior Director of People & Culture who leads with positivity and a belief in what is possible. The successful candidate demonstrates a zeal for human resources and climate solutions and models excellence and integrity in all they do. The selected candidate will also possess most of the following Core and Preferred qualifications:
Core
- Strong commitment to the mission, vision, policies, and goals of Rewiring America.
- 7+ years of increasing responsibility in human resources, with a proven track record of building new systems and practices.
- Prior start-up experience with a high-growth company or nonprofit.
- Experience designing and implementing innovative talent acquisition, performance management, organizational culture and retention initiatives.
- Proven leadership skills with clarity of vision and a commitment to the highest levels of integrity, quality, and collaboration, developing strong team cultures, promoting and enhancing equity, ersity, and inclusion, performance management, and professional development.
- Mastery of relationship-building skills with a wide range of people.
- Outstanding oral and written communications skills.
- Demonstrated ability to hold confidential and sensitive information with care and empathy.
- Ability to manage a growing team with competing demands; not easily flustered nor easily overwhelmed by a high volume of activity and projects.
- Sets and achieves high-performance expectations that are motivating and results-oriented.
- Seeks out and delivers timely and direct feedback that contributes to the ongoing development of oneself, team members, and a positive organizational culture.
- Promptly resolves problems through timely consultation in an environment of mutual respect.
- Highly collaborative work style with the ability to operate as a peer and thought partner to the Chief of Staff and other leadership team members.
Preferred
- Human Resources Certification, such as PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP.
- Proficiency and/or comfort with people operations technology (e.g., performance management software, applicant tracking systems).
Benefits
The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $175,000, commensurate with experience. Rewiring America also offers a very generous and competitive benefits package, including health coverage, retirement benefits, paid vacation, sick time and holidays and access to professional development resources.
Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance, an automatic 3% and up to 3% employer match on 401k contributions, pre-tax transportation benefits, paid holidays, vacation, sick, and volunteer time off.
< class="h3">Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity and InclusionRewiring America values ersity in all its forms and is committed to inclusive and transparent recruitment, hiring and promotion processes. Candidates of erse backgrounds and lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please email Cathy Schreiber at [email protected].
< class="h3">Hiring StatementRewiring America is a project of Windward Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Windward Fund is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. Windward Fund ‘s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.
< class="h3">COVID-19 StatementTo center the safety and well-being of its employees, Windward Fund requires that any employee who is required to conduct in-person activities for their job must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 within four weeks of their start date. This position may require candidates to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations may be sought and approved in accordance with the law by contacting human resources at [email protected].
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