About World Renew
At World Renew, we work to LIVE JUSTICE, LOVE MERCY, & WALK HUMBLY.
Vision:
World Renew envisions a world where people experience and extend Christ’s compassion and live together in hope as God’s community.
Mission:
Compelled by God’s deep passion for justice and mercy, we join communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation.
Values:
• Faith: We seek to understand God’s will in all we do, encouraging a worldview of faith and trust in God.
• Effectiveness: We are innovative, resourceful, and continual learners with partners, communities, and donors.
• People Flourishing: We treat each person equally as an image-bearer of God, aiming for the fullness of life God has promised.
• Stewardship: We steward God’s gifts with wisdom, integrity, and accountability.
World Renew is an international, faith-based charitable organization focused on long-term poverty alleviation, disaster response, and justice education. With home offices in the U.S. and Canada, World Renew partners with 70 organizations in 29 countries, leveraging over 60 years of experience in food security, economic opportunity, community health, peace and justice, and both emergency aid and long-term rebuilding in natural and human-caused disasters.
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PURPOSE:
The Chief People and Culture Officer (CPCO) provides strategic leadership in HR planning, policy, organizational development, and transformative change, holding oversight for all People and Culture (P&C) related activities. This role ensures alignment with World Renew’s commitment to justice, mercy, and humility, fostering a thriving organizational culture that reflects our values and advances our mission.
The CPCO is a member of the Global Executive Team (GET), reporting to the Co-Executive Directors. This senior leader will promote productive, agile, and collaborative teams, processes, and systems, making evidence-driven decisions appropriate to various operating contexts. The CPCO must be an experienced and effective servant leader with the ability to approach business with both a systems lens and an innovative perspective, while collaborating successfully across all functions and levels of the organization.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy and Planning
• Actively participate in the strategic planning process for the organization.
• Provide recommendations on effective and sustainable talent management and organization design to support the over-arching strategy in alignment with our strategic plan “Imagine More”
• Partner with leaders and teams to support the priorities of the organization’s strategic and annual operating plans.
• Lead the P&C team in the creation of the team’s vision, strategy and planning to support the execution of the organization’s plans.
• Define, capture and rely on people analytics to identify trends in the creation of strategy, and to measure and recalibrate activities
• Embed needed P&C elements in ongoing organizational transformation, focusing on innovation, agility, and a healthy culture.
• Provide leadership and consulting for change initiatives.
• Coach the P&C team to support and drive strategic goals.
• Continuously evolve people and leadership practices to foster a feedback-rich, high-performance culture.
• Ensure sustainable systems (performance, talent, rewards) are in place to support organizational strategy.
Talent
• Develop comprehensive recruiting, onboarding, development, and retention plans aligned with organizational needs and strategy.
• Ensure hiring practices provide an exceptional candidate experience and result in excellent hiring decisions from diverse talent pools.
• Design and lead talent strategies and discussions, ensuring best practices for retention and multi-year plans on workforce skills.
• Oversee a talent pipeline process for future succession and growth, including leadership and technical competency development.
• Provide guidance and coaching to the senior leadership team on talent and performance management.
Employee Experience
• Ensure effective systems, tools and skills are in place to support a culture of high performance and that they are well understood and utilized by the organization.
• Coach leaders on building high performance teams and in making talent decisions to promote the needed achievement of goals.
Culture
• Serve as a visible culture champion, fostering a highly engaged, diverse, and innovative work environment.
• Model World Renew’s values, mindsets, and behaviors, ensuring our faith is reflected in our work.
• Provide opportunities for spiritual nurture, care, and encouragement to P&C staff.
• Communicate regularly about culture to the organization and provide reporting to the World Renew Boards of Directors.
• Lead DEI initiatives to foster a culture of inclusion, belonging, and equity.
Leadership and Management Development
• Inspire and guide the P&C team, fostering a collaborative work environment and a unified global vision.
• Provide evidence-based workforce recommendations to the Global Executive team.
• Work with the Global Learning Manager on defining, communicating, and measuring against leadership goals.
• Provide spiritual leadership, connecting faith to work and shaping a culture based on Christian values.
Compliance and Risk Management:
• Ensure compliance with all applicable labor laws and regulations across the countries where World Renew operates
• Maintain and enhance systems for reporting, accountability, and transparency.
Communications and Community Involvement
• Craft and oversee effective communications for the team and the organization.
• Work closely with the communications team to ensure timely and appropriate internal communications.
• Oversee a strong employer brand strategy to support recruitment.
• Participate in associations, relationship building, and information sharing within the sector.
Service Delivery
• Oversee and provide leadership to the P&C team globally.
• Ensure human resource compliance requirements are met, considering local legal requirements.
• Ensure responsive, accurate, and compassionate P&C services to staff.
• Provide strategic oversight of all reward programs, including salary, benefits, retirement plans, and engagement activities.
• Ensure effective IS systems are in place to support P&C activities and provide data to inform performance and strategy
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
1. Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
2. 15 years of experience in Human Resources with roles progressing to senior leadership.
3. Minimum 5 years of leadership experience in a non-profit, multinational organization, or relevant combination.
4. Experience as a strategic senior HR leader, including three or more years as a member of an executive team reporting directly to the President or CEO.
5. Strong managerial experience essential, with capability to lead, motivate, and develop highly productive teams, including effective Christian spiritual formation.
6. Background in successfully leading and developing a team of diverse HR professionals.
7. Strong business acumen.
8. Understanding and experience in agile environments and digital transformation.
9. Proven experience as a trusted advisor, partner, and leader.
10. CHRL and/or SHRM designation preferred.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
1. Commitment to live out World Renew’s Christian mission, vision and values.
2. Active engagement in local Christian community and able to sign World Renew’s Statement of Faith.
3. Demonstrated commitment to Christ and able to recognize this position as one that contributes leadershipto the work of His Kingdom
4. Demonstrated commitment to contribute to and promote a work and service environment (locally and in the communities that we serve) that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), localization and decolonization.
5. Empathetic leader who can skillfully manage complex and nuanced situations and perspectives.
6. Strategic, solution-focused technologist who utilizes data and technology to drive productivity and create optimal employee experiences digitally.
7. Experienced in implementing workforce strategies in an Agile environment.
8. Facilitates new thinking and continuous improvement in organization development, culture, and talent matters. Able to shepherd the organization through a time of significant change.
9. Critical thinking, ability to clearly evaluate and make recommendations based on facts and data, while balancing the impact on people.
10. Proactive in identifying the root cause of issues, seeking the best solutions with an unwavering commitment to do what is right from a stewardship and values lens.
11. Collaborative relationship builder across all disciplines.
12. Coaching skills, with the ability to coach senior leaders in an atmosphere of trust and confidentiality.
13. Leads based on trust, freedom, autonomy and collaboration.
14. Looks outward to ensure World Renew approaches stay relevant.
15. Insightful in development of talent, understanding aspirations, capabilities, and development plans.
16. Trusted advisor and advocate, with the ability to influence key talent decisions through trust and credibility
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
• Must be highly fluent in English, with degree of professional acumen required to execute job accountabilities. Fluency in additional languages would be advantageous.
• Ability to operate across a range of linguistic groups.
WORK ENVIRONMENT, PHYSICAL AND OTHER DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Computer work and concentrated reading, sitting for long periods of time.
• Flexibility to be available across multiple time-zones
• Work is challenging and diversified and requires frequent application of independent thinking to originate and develop procedures, techniques or ideas within the parameters of a broad conceptual outline.
TRAVEL:
• Requires travel within North America for meetings and conferences, as needed.
• Requires occasional international travel. International travel includes the possibility of destinations with rough terrain, unreliable access to water and electricity, and increased exposure to illness.
With World Renew's commitment to Core Humanitarian Standard and Safeguarding responsibilities, as part of the recruitment process, a successful candidate can expect to go through a thorough background check.
Why Work with World Renew? Values Flexibility! 36-hour workweek (1,872 hours annually) with Fridays being "Focus Fridays" #nomeetings
• Work that follows a relentless mission to end hunger and starvation in the world
• Full-Time Flexible Work Arrangements
• Generous Vacation and Holiday Time
• Embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Benefits include Health, Welfare, & Retirement
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Contributing to an organization that is making an impact in the world
• Up to 1 week of paid time off for voluntary mission/service project trip.
World Renew is its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is governed by its U.S. and Canadian Boards of Directors.