HR Business Partner - India

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About CIFF

The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) is an independent philanthropic organisation with offices in Addis Ababa, Beijing, London, Nairobi, and New Delhi. CIFF works with a wide range of partners seeking to transform and empower the lives of poor and vulnerable children and adolescents in developing countries, with the ultimate goal of solving seemingly intractable challenges to ensure all children and adolescents have the chance to survive and thrive.

CIFF aims to play a catalytic role as a funder and influencer to deliver urgent and systemic change at scale. Areas of work include empowering girls and boys to control their sexual and reproductive health to avoid unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and HIV/AIDS; improving children and mothers’ health and nutrition; preventing low birthweight babies; eliminating deaths from severe acute malnutrition, nested within a more integrated approach to childhood development; and deworming efforts to break transmission for good. CIFF’s child protection work focuses on ending child labour and sexual exploitation by enabling an environment that reduces vulnerability of communities and increases protection of children. The organisation’s climate portfolio is driven by a vision of a climate-safe future for today’s children and future generations that also bear the benefits of cleaner air, energy security and sustainable jobs.

We are privileged, as a financially independent philanthropy, to be able to work in challenging areas that others can’t, and we often elect to work on what can be controversial issues that others won’t. For example, CIFF is pro-choice with respect to women’s reproductive rights along with the prioritisation of access to reproductive information and to contraceptive choices. It is imperative to the CIFF family, therefore, that prospective candidates are aware of the issues we work on and embrace all our programmatic work with fully open minds to the huge number of ways in which we seek to empower young lives.

CIFF places significant emphasis on quality data and evidence. For most of its grants, CIFF works with partners to measure and evaluate progress to achieve large scale and sustainable impact. The organisation is committed to sharing as much information as possible about what they and their partners are learning.

Founded in 2002, CIFF employs approximately 160 professionals globally. CIFF strives to couple business acumen and principles with development experience and best practices to transform the landscape for children. It seeks to be the gold standard in grant making and foundation operations.

Main purpose of the role

The purpose of this role is to deliver first-class HR business support by taking the lead on and managing all elements of a generalist HR role for their designated areas at a strategic level, whilst ensuring effective delivery of the day to day operational agenda - this spans attracting, developing, rewarding and retaining our talent.

At CIFF the HR Business Partners act as change agents working closely with the senior leaders and their teams to deliver and embed the People Strategy, upskilling people managers to enable the delivery of CIFF’s strategic goals and contributing more broadly to the philanthropic sector and strategic grantees by leading the way with best in class HR practices. They work at both a strategic and operational level, ensuring a diversity lens across all HR activities with responsibility for building organisational and people capability through their excellent understanding of the foundation and the people challenges CIFF faces.

The HR team

This role reports to the Director, Global HR Business Partnering who leads a team of two HR Business Partners, one based in Delhi (this role) and one in Nairobi, and a Resourcing team of two based in London. This role will support the India team as well as colleagues in Legal and Finance & Operations in different locations.

The Exciting Opportunity

HR Business Partnering

• Form and maintain excellent working relationships with the India leadership team and other dedicated client team leads and team members to understand ongoing work, targets and gaps in capability
• Work with the India leadership team and other dedicated sector leads to ensure that the people strategy is implemented and adapted based on business requirements
• Proactively work to promote, influence and support high performance through leadership & talent, HR processes and other initiatives
• Champion the development of an inclusive, diversity-driven culture, ensuring values are upheld and support the commitments made within CIFF’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy
• Build management team expertise and execution around people management practice across the business
• Manage all HR activity on behalf of the relevant business area including pay and performance review, reporting & analysis
• Maintain a good knowledge of employment law supporting in informing policy and/or process updates
• Pro-actively use data, metrics and evidence (including insights from Office Vibe, our employee engagement survey) to inform and drive decision making and change across their business areas
• Coach and provide feedback to key stakeholders to help improve business efficiency
• Jointly responsible with all team members under the leadership of the Director, Global HR Business Partnering for a strong financial and commercial lens across all HR activities and supplier management

Employee Relations

• Ensure that people management issues of change and growth are managed and develop workforce plans to ensure the right organizational design
• Deliver practical day to day HR policy and practice and advice that fits the business and is not ‘over engineered’
• Lead on all employee relations activity in their client groups, supporting and advising investigation and hearing leads on appropriate processes for disciplinary, grievance, or change management processes
• Work with the Head of HR Operations to ensure an effective and efficient HR service across CIFF

Recruitment & Selection

• Collaborate with the Resourcing Manager throughout the recruitment and selection process for their client groups, ensuring a best practice end to end process which delivers on CIFF’s commitments to diversity, equality and inclusion
• Work closely with the Resourcing Manager in the early stages of a hiring process to ensure:
• The hiring manager is supported in the design of the job description
• The process and associated timelines are clearly stated and worked to
• Appropriate advertising, screening and selection methods are adopted

• Support in panel interviews, leading final selection decisions and making offers to candidates.
• Actively contribute to making the recruitment and selection process a positive experience for candidates and hiring teams
• Ensure all relevant documentation relating to the recruitment process is well maintained and is handled in alignment with data protection regulations

Reward

• Support the annual pay review cycle, contributing to development of the pay review proposals and supporting processes and accountable for the pay review cycle in their sectors
• Support people managers in their client sectors through all reward processes acting as confidential advisors and experts to ensure CIFF’s approach to reward is applied consistently and fairly across the foundation
• Retain a strong awareness of pay across teams identifying changes as needed
• Identify areas of employment law change or requirements to inform reward policy and / or process updates

Learning and Development

• Work with the Head of Learning & Development in creating a coaching culture through the roll out of coaching skills across the foundation and working with the Executive Team and Directors to ensure they are embedded and sustained
• Undertake the annual training needs analysis that informs annual L&D plans at an organisational, team and individual level for client areas, ensuring follow through on all L&D needs and continuous monitoring and review

Projects

• Take the lead on key new HR initiatives and projects
• Provide cover and support for the absences for other HR Business Partners

Requirements:

Qualifications & Experience

• Significant and demonstrable experience of HR business partnering, acting at a senior level as a key strategic partner and implementing organizational business strategies from a people perspective
• Excellent knowledge and competency in the fundamentals of HR, with rounded experience across Reward, Recruitment & Selection, L&D, Employee Relations
• Background in a specific sector is not essential, however experience gained through a range of industries and environments is required; international or NGO experience would be advantageous
• Excellent up to date knowledge of employment / labour laws and best practice
• Experience of using HR Information Systems
• Outstanding communication skills, both oral and written, influencing and negotiation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills with an excellent team work ethic
• Highest levels of judgment and professional integrity
• Knowledge and considerable use of psychometric testing activity and feedback

Person Specification

• Ability to demonstrate a passion for CIFF’s mission
• Ability to quickly develop credibility; an active builder of strong trust-based relationships at all levels with differing levels of HR understanding and competency
• A real ‘people person’ with excellent interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence
• Highly curious, keen to continuously broaden business experience and master new knowledge
• A strong work ethic, high energy with the ability to work autonomously and manage own time well
• Flexible and adaptable, coping with changing workloads and requirements
• Strong cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Ability to maintain and handle confidential and sensitive issues acting with discretion, diplomacy and tact
• Confident public speaker with the ability to present to groups

Benefits:

The Culture Contribution

Our employees contribute to a shared goal in an environment of support, knowledge sharing and fun!

CIFF Values

Honest: We value our own integrity and never shy away from the truth. We learn from our mistakes, we stay accountable and we use feedback as a tool for success.

Supportive: We use our experience to bring out the best in each other. When the pressure’s on we join forces. When one of us succeeds, we celebrate together.

Entrepreneurial: We’re always searching for new opportunities to do more and push boundaries. We constantly ask ourselves ‘What if?’

Passionate: We’ve each come to CIFF to change the world for children. So we’re bold and daring in our approach. We know that with the right people and the right resources, there’s nothing we can’t achieve together.

Problem solving: Solving issues is part of our everyday. We use every problem as a learning experience: to investigate, to ask for help, to think outside the box.

Collaborative: In CIFF’s people and partners you’ll find subject experts from around the world. We understand the power of bringing this experience and expertise together to change children’s lives.

We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, please make your recruiter aware, we want to ensure you perform at your best.