People and Culture Lead - Remote

Salary: £43,898 plus benefits

Mary’s Meals International is delighted to be recruiting for a talented People and Culture Lead to join our growing People & Culture team at Mary’s Meals International.

Reporting to our Head of People and Culture, you will provide inspirational leadership to a small team providing flexible and proactive HR Support across the global organisation. You will be a subject matter expert for the organisation across a broad spectrum of HR topics, employment legislation and policy.

People are at the heart of everything we do here at Mary’s Meals and in this fast paced and varied role, you will apply your expert knowledge of HR and your strong influencing and communication skills to coach, mentor, challenge and build managerial capability in, people management, employee relations, and HR best practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Influence and deliver a high-quality HR service to all MMI employees.
• Provide strategic support, leadership and direction to a high performing team.
• Contribute to the ongoing support, including coaching and mentoring of our Programme Affiliates and National Affiliates as required.
• Work towards continuous improvement of people frameworks, policy, procedures and manager tool kits at MMI and across the network.
• Proactively monitor forthcoming UK employment legislation to establish and implement any changes required to UK HR policy, documentation and associated training.
• Manage, advise and support on a broad spectrum of complex employee relations cases involving senior managers and/or cases which have a significant risk profile within MMI.
• Drive positive behaviours and the embodiment of our values across the organisation.
• Lead, plan and execute work to successfully deliver People and Culture projects throughout the year.
• Identify HR policy skills gaps for managers and work in collaboration with the Learning and Development team to provide content and deliver subject matter expert training and mentoring.
• Work collaboratively with our Head of Recruitment to support the MMI recruitment lifecycle for senior positions, with a strong focus on candidate experience.
• Build strong external networks to proactively support the MMI remote first and wellbeing strategy.
• Build management capability for managing change initiatives and work collaboratively with the People and Culture Partners to initiate change.
• Provide operational support to the People and Culture Partners on succession plans, organisational design and workforce planning.

About you:

With significant experience of working as an HR Manager, HR Partner or HR Lead, you will be a true HR generalist with substantial ER and change management experience, ideally from a global or multi-site organisation. With proven people leadership skills, you will bring experience of overseeing operational and strategic HR initiatives with extensive experience of negotiating and influencing cross functionally, to achieve overarching organisational aims. The ability to build strong working relationships and provide high quality support and coaching to managers, to resolve complex people issues is key, as are strong analytical skills. Knowledge and practical application of UK employment legislation is essential, and you will be keen to develop your knowledge of employment legislation frameworks in countries where Mary’s Meals operates.

About us:

We are a global movement with a remote-first approach. This role is home based, and we are open to accommodating flexible and part-time working patterns to support your work life balance. Please let us know about your preferences. We have an office near Glasgow city centre for those who live nearby and would like to work from here occasionally or on a regular basis.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and from all faiths and none. We are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals. We are a values-driven organisation who believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, we are fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.

Mary’s Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.

If you would love to use your skills, talents, and experience to be part of positive change in the world, we would love to hear from you. Please click Apply to send your CV and a short covering note telling us why you would like to join Mary’s Meals and why this role is a great fit for you.

Closing date: Wednesday 17th April

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

People and Culture Lead JD

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Benefits

• 8% non-contributory pension contribution - after 3 months (for international candidates the 8% pension contribution will be paid as a part of salary)
• 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each completed calendar year, to a maximum of 39 days (+ option to buy another week)
• Flexible working
• TELUS Employee Assistance Programme, including perks and cash back opportunities
• Life assurance