People Partner – Europe (part-time) At International Planned Parenthood Federation

The role is part-time at 3 days per week and will support our staff and senior team in the region across all areas relating to people. It will also oversee the recruitment of senior global staff. As we transform the approach we take to people, organisation and culture to align to our new strategy “Come Together”, we are looking to be more people centred, agile and diverse. This role will help to evolve our people practices, build consistency, actively attract talent and evolve our employee experience and engagement. It will support line managers and leaders, helping the senior team to think through their people planning. You will work collaboratively within the global people team, reporting to the Director People, Organisation and Culture, along with our Global Operations and support team. You will help to develop our approaches, policies and ways of doing things, ensuring they work for our people. This includes the development of our HRIS, Applicant Tracking System and other people systems as they are brought in.

Context of Role:

IPPF, through its new Strategy2028, is looking to be a more dynamic, agile and diverse organization keeping on the ‘front foot’ of evolving people practices and bringing a proactive approach to attracting talent, people performance and development, workforce planning and enhancing the employee experience journey.

Deliverables:

• Develop and implement a rolling annual people plan that is part of the Secretariat People, Organisation & Culture 3-year plan and developed with the Regional Directors and their Senior Management Teams.
• Devise, modify and manage the employee lifecycle journey to ensure a consistent and positive employee experience.
• Plan and optimise recruitment to effectively attract and secure diverse talent, pro-actively advising on approach. Supporting selection directly and/or through training/coaching recruiting managers and providing the objective validation on recruitment decisions in line with our goals and targets.
• Build, adapt and evolve performance and development to ensure the right capability is in place to deliver our work.
• Optimise workforce planning with Heads of Corporate Services to integrate unrestricted and restricted resource ensuring within your own regional areas and in liaison with the HR Operations Manager.
• Identify, mitigate and manage people and employee relations risks.
• Manage and adapt the pay review cycle in line with Secretariat guidelines and working alongside People colleagues.
• Lead the local adaptation, modification and implementation of People Policies and Procedures in line with Secretariat framework.
• Build trusted relationships at all levels to deliver IPPF’s People objectives while retaining line manager accountability through training/coaching support.
• Recommend, devise and adapt interventions that improve engagement, wellbeing and support culture change.
• Support and enable a safe environment, adhering to the safeguarding reporting and monitoring requirements of this role.

Reporting/Management Responsibility:

• The People Partner will supervise HR Admin focal points in both regions who will provide support on the ground as part of their overall job purpose and deliverables.

Skills/ Expertise:

• Qualified HR Professional with significant experience across the employee life-cycle.
• Experience as an HR or People Business Partner working with Senior Management Teams.
• Experience of advising and working across geographies and different legal jurisdictions internationally, particularly on recruitment & ER matters.
• Track record of developing and delivering ambitious people plans and managing/delivering projects.
• Influencing skills with demonstratable ability to both constructively challenge and support with resilience and emotional intelligence.
• Demonstrable planning, organising skills with ability to adapt and flex to changing circumstances and deliver at pace.
• Good judgment and decision-making distilling the key elements of a situation and context balancing the needs of the business and the needs of people.
• Track record of working successfully with diverse, multicultural and multilingual groups and experience of supporting teamworking in diverse environments.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written with experience of writing policies, procedures, and contracts in a user-friendly way without technical jargon and in a tone of voice that supports the culture.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is essential (other regional languages are an advantage).
• Highest integrity and confidentiality, approachable and supportive.
• Creative problem-solver, who thinks ahead and pre-empts risks/issues.
• Understands the external dynamics, political/social/economic shifts and keeps up to date with functional/sectoral/legislative changes.
• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
• Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
• An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice.
• Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of worker’s rights and access to health care in sex work.
• Experience of using psychometrics would be an advantage

Your Ethos:

• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
• Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
• An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice, including safe abortion.
• Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of workers’ rights and access to health care in sex work.

IPPF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers, contractors and partners to share this commitment. Anyone employed with IPPF agrees to sign and adhere to IPPF’s Code of Conduct and Safeguarding (Children and Vulnerable Adults) Policy.