Director Organizational Development

Department: Operations & Network Support

Location: Remote / Flexible Location

Final date to receive applications: 29 January 2026

As the People & Organizational Development Director, you will join a vibrant and growing international team. Reporting to Meliore’s Chief Operating Officer, you will lead a global strategy to support our staff and organizational development, continuously improve core processes, policies, and systems, and hold overall responsibility for a high-performing global team.

The People & Organizational Development team aspires to maintain a healthy workplace by developing and refining policies and processes for recruitment and talent management, workforce planning, learning & development, payroll, administration, health & safety, diversity, and other initiatives.

This executive leadership role requires a seasoned professional with a deep interest in leading a global and dispersed team in a dynamic environment. This includes direct experience in human resource policy setting and management, people development, conflict resolution and stakeholder relations as well as policies, compensation & benefits, health & safety and people practices.

If this sounds like you, we'd love for you to apply.

• Serve as a member of the Senior Management Team, contributing to the foundation's overall activities, planning, and strategy
• Act as strategic partner for the Senior Management Team and Program Leadership teams across the foundation in all aspects relating to people and organizational development
• Provide thought leadership by staying abreast of contemporary best practices in the field and supporting Leadership education to strengthen executive and senior management’s organizational leadership and management capabilities

• Lead and develop a global team to ensure effective service delivery across all people and organizational development functions (talent acquisition, learning & development, payroll, labour relations, etc.), enabling us to attract, recruit, retain, and develop brilliant team members
• Continuously develop and refine the global people and organizational development strategy, policies, and processes (compensation and benefits, performance management, workplace safety, etc.) for all functional areas ensuring ongoing improvement and evolution aligned with organizational needs
• Maintain and develop people and organizational metrics, and ensure data analysis and knowledge management to support learning and decision-making
• Maintain and evolve the foundation’s performance management system to support talent development and organisational strategy
• With your team, prepare high-level, data-driven reports and insights to support Leadership in delivering Meliore’s strategic priorities
• Oversee team budget and vendor relations to ensure tools and services are suitable and cost-effective (e.g., recruitment, payroll, insurance, information systems)

• Establish compliance standards and monitor adherence to internal policies and legal requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• Maintain knowledge of employment legislation and trends, advising management on needed actions to remain compliant
• Offer coaching, counselling, and guidance to management and staff on resolution of employment-related matters
• Facilitate meetings of the People & Culture committee of the Governing Board, ensuring smooth running of meetings, agenda preparation, and proper documentation
• Support leadership management of collective employment relationships (e.g. national Works Councils); design, implement and refine strategy to ensure constructive collective employment relationships across the foundation and across a wider network of strategically aligned organisations
• Lead change processes as needed to implement labor- and people-related laws and policies as may be required by jurisdictions where we operate and employee staff

• Support the Chief Operating Officer and Senior JEDI Lead (reporting to the COO) in designing and implementing…