• Partner with the Global People Team to develop and implement a Global People Strategy and contextualise it into an annual work plan that is relevant to the Region’s/Area strategy.
• Ensure that People-related policies and procedures are in place in the Asia countries and are regularly updated and followed to maintain an effective and efficient working environment. Also ensure that policies/procedures comply with local labour laws and regulations.
• Promote Employee Experience and Operational Excellence across the Regional Level and Heifer Operations in Asia and across the different phases of the employment life cycle.
• Partner with the Global Talent Development function to provide individual-based development experience and training that promote Heifer’s culture, supplement skill needs, promote compliance, enhance team morale, and improve organisational performance in support of the 2030 goal.
• Provide leadership and follow up to country program People teams and supervisors in understanding and implementing Heifer policies and practices related to performance, discipline, safeguarding, positive employee relations and related topics, and ensure compliance.
• Communicate, train, and guide the implementation of new or revised global, regional and local policies, processes, and practices.
• Collaborate with the Global People Team and Risk Management Division in reviewing claims, promoting compliance, performing self-audits, and addressing areas of development.
• Hold oneself accountable for achieving Regional People goals and provide support to field/project People teams to achieve their objectives.
• Provide leadership and ensure representing regional context and strategies in developing the people related global policies, procedures, and strategies
• Provide leadership and ensure representing country context and ground realities in developing the people related global policies, procedures, and strategies.
• Liaise between Country Teams, Regional Teams and Global People Teams to expedite people related issues including recruitment, reporting, auditing data, and preparing procedures and guidelines.
• Collaborate with Heifer leadership within the region to build Heifer’s brand as an employer and develop staffing plans to attract and hire high-quality people needed for successful implementation of existing and future Signature Programs within the region.
• Through a dotted reporting line, ensure Country People/HR Teams are supported to provide high quality support to the country offices.
• Support country program People teams to prepare performance objectives that support achieving the organisation-level goals.
• Recruit and onboard Area-Level positions and support filling Area Leadership vacancies
• Work with Global Compensation and Benefits Director to develop, constantly benchmark, and implement the organisation’s compensation and benefits systems within the region to achieve Heifer’s Total Rewards philosophy in support of Asia strategic goals.
• Promote a culture of respect that celebrates diversity, equity, and inclusion and meets the organisation’s duty of care towards its people. Proactively assess and address culture and work environment concerns.
• Promote a culture of trust, collaboration and support among team members by using Heifer’s values-based tools.
• Support cross-national knowledge sharing and ensure capacity building of staff within the region; actively participate in region wide HR community network.
• Develop minimum standards, and support the implementation of staff recruitment, onboarding, promotion and/or termination of contracts in the region.
• Support the proposal design process through development and/or review of organisational structure, profiles, etc.
   

• Thorough understanding of the Asia Region’s labour markets and culture.
• Experience in high-growth and large projects staffing and employment life-cycle management.
• Must possess a high level of integrity and credibility. Be comfortable operating, managing and building teams within a matrix structure.
• Self-motivated individuals that will continuously look for opportunities to improve processes.
• Collaborative, team-oriented and servant leadership mindset with strong verbal and written communication skills. English language fluency is required.
• Self-motivated, agile, and detail-oriented leader with exceptional organisational, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to work outside the normal 8-5 schedule to accommodate for the U.S. and Asia time zones.
   

To succeed in this role, you will have a track record in supporting and driving constant change within INGO project-based, matrix structure. 

You will have proven PEOPLE leaders delivering operational excellence within the region with similar or larger INGOs and have the passion to implement global and regional strategic plans within your function, and for the success of the other functions within the region. 

You will have a passion and servant leadership mindset for developing people and have the independence to promote diversity, equity and inclusion, and coach leadership on managing sensitive people's challenges.

 You are able to hold yourself accountable and build the capacity and motivate highly effective HR teams that are geographically scattered.