HR Partner - 9 month FTC - Remote

Mary’s Meals International is delighted to be recruiting for experienced HR Partner to join our global People & Culture Team for a 9 month maternity cover. This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly experienced HR professional to work in partnership within our dynamic global organisation to shape, develop and deliver our People strategy and provide high level HR support across all directorates.

Reporting to our Head of HR Partnering, you will seek to drive high performance and the embodiment of our organisational values, across our movement and will have personal responsibility for key People projects and change management initiatives.

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, succession planning and HR best practice, across our movement.

Other key responsibilities include:

• To provide insightful and expert HR partnering support to leaders.
• Develop and project manage strategic and value-adding projects and initiatives in line with MMI’s People Strategy and in support of the needs of our global movement. Key projects and initiatives include:

- Change Management

- Succession planning

- Strategic workforce planning

- Bringing our culture to life

- Safeguarding - educating and embedding

- Global reward policies and practices

• To provide proactive and expert advice and guidance to HR Leads in MM’s Programme Affiliates to support the continual development of the HR frameworks in place in Kenya and Zambia.

With significant experience of working as a People Partner, from a global or multi-site organisation, 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 and proven experience of developing innovative solutions to drive organisational change.

We are a global movement with a remote-first approach and are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly, in a way that best supports your work life balance. We are open to accommodating part-time working patterns, please let us know about your requirements. We also 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, we 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 and tell us why you want to work at Mary’s Meals and why this role is a great fit for you.

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