People and Culture Manager

About Global Canopy

Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit delivering real transparency and accountability for market impacts on nature and people. Our special focus is on ending deforestation – an essential step in achieving urgent global goals on climate, nature and human rights.

We deliver our work via three main strategies:

1. on open data (including via major global data platforms like Trase, Forest 500, Forest IQ, and ENCORE);
2. on creating stronger voluntary and compliance frameworks to address nature loss (we are a founding partner of the TNFD);
3. and on accelerating accountability and action by the finance sector towards deforestation-free portfolios.

Our platforms, data and insights are relied upon by Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, national and regional governments, and some of the most effective campaigning organisations worldwide.

We work globally, with a focus on both forested regions (particularly across Latin America and South East Asia), and major consumer and financial markets (with a focus on Europe, the US, Singapore and China).

We have a distributed team of around 60 people worldwide, with a main office in Oxford (UK). We work via close and deep partnerships, including with institutions like the Stockholm Environment Institute, the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, UNEP Finance Initiative, the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, the Zoological Society of London, and many others.

Person Specification

Global Canopy is a story of success and achieving tangible change. It is an organisation that has been at the heart of critical initiatives in the transition toward more sustainable economies, such as pioneering Trase open data partnership, and the Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). As an organisation we have always asked the hard questions and been courageous in our approach. Now, with rapid and sustained year-on-year growth, three successful and synergistic programmes of work and increasing regional expansion, we have an ambitious strategy and a great team that we invite you to bring your talents to.

As People and Culture Manager, you will be responsible for the smooth running of the People function at Global Canopy. Working closely with the Leadership Team and colleagues across teams, you will be at the heart of an ever-more inclusive culture at Global Canopy.

You will lead on People initiatives that create stronger relationships, more effective learning and professional development, and better delivery of our work and positive impact as an organisation. You will bring strong influencing and relationship-building skills and deep technical expertise to ensure that we can recruit, retain, develop, support and deeply engage the people we rely on to deliver our vital work for forests, nature and human rights.

You will manage all aspects of people’s journey with the organisation, including recruitment, performance management, employee relations and payroll. We are looking for a people professional who leads with empathy and puts individuals at the heart of their decision-making.

You will be positive, creative and flexible – always looking for solutions that benefit everyone involved; and you will be efficient, straightforward, and kind, modelling the behaviours and values we aspire to as a team.

This is a great role for a seasoned professional who believes in the power of a people-centred organisation, has been successful at delivering on a people strategy in a business-partnering role, and can work effectively in the context of a fast-growing and dynamic non-profit working on complex projects around the world.

Finally – as we ask of all colleagues – you will contribute to a culture of kindness, collaboration, rigour and accountability in equal measure. You will come to work with a sense of urgent mission, but one balanced by emotional intelligence in all you do. You will share our conviction that it is not just what we do that matters in our working life, but how we do it too.

• Manage recruitment, induction and exit processes for employees in conjunction with line managers
• Be responsible for the creation, maintenance, evolution and operation of all HR processes and systems
• Work closely with Directors and external experts on review of policies – covering performance, learning/development, absence, salaries/benefits, job grading and staff engagement Support & advice to leaders and managers
• Evolve our people and culture offering , engagement and materials to be ever-more aligned with our values, approach and tone.
• Provide proactive and reactive support to managers ensuring that our people are supported to thrive and develop
• Advise on people issues and managing cases, to ensure that processes are followed in line with Global Canopy’s policy, best practice and employment legislation.
• Support the implementation of the People plan and be responsible for the relevant activities
• Provide reports and maintain KPIs related to HR
• Lead on team building and team support initiatives to build a cohesive, highly motivated team in line with Global Canopy’s culture
• Line management of People and Culture Advisor, supporting them in their leadership of recruitment for Global Canopy, and guiding and supporting their work in pursuit of our people strategy
• Oversee with the people and culture advisor, any delivery from outsourced providers.

• People-first approach to HR management
• Personable approach with demonstrable evidence of developing and sustaining positive working relationships at all levels within an organisation
• Experience of managing human resources work across organisations, with a good understanding of HR procedures and legislation in the UK
• Motivated by our work on environmental issues

Essential Behavioural Competencies:

• Leading with warmth
• Able to handle difficult situations sensitively and confidentially, and be perceived as positive/constructive by colleagues
• Initiative & ability to manage own workload, and deadlines
• Ability to lead change by influencing and supporting others
• Creativity

Skills and Experience:

• Deep experience in all aspects of employee lifecycle management
• CIPD level 5 or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of UK employment law and best practice
• Experience and expertise to support in the areas of diversity/inclusion, learning/development and staff wellbeing/engagement
• Experience of working internationally with staff based outside the UK – and covered by non-UK law
• Experience of working in a matrixed and international organisation

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