People & Culture Lead developing HR initiatives for Global Canopy, a not - for - profit focused on ending deforestation. Responsible for people and culture management, supporting team development, and ensuring HR compliance.
About the role
- Head of People & Culture at Numida building HR frameworks to support 100,000+ businesses across Africa. Designing scalable people systems to enable growth and accountability in leadership.
Responsibilities
- Design and continuously evolve Numida’s org structure to support ambitious and fast growth, product expansion, and geographic scale
- Define roles, spans of control, decision rights, and accountability across teams
- Lead workforce planning in partnership with Finance and functional leaders
- Support reorganisations and change management with clarity and care
- Translate Numida’s values into observable leadership behaviors and role model our way of working and expectations for leaders
- Act as a steward of culture during growth, reorganisation, and change
- Maintain employee engagement and trust through transparency and fairness
- Build and roll out a practical manager framework (expectations, rhythms, feedback, performance)
- Coach senior leaders and people managers
- Design leadership development interventions that are lightweight but effective
- Design performance management systems that reinforce accountability and outcomes
- Build clear career paths and progression frameworks that retain high performers and provide visibility of growth paths across the organization
- Lead succession planning for critical roles
- Ensure underperformance is addressed early and fairly
- Build simple, robust HR systems, policies, and processes that scale across countries
- Ensure compliance with labor laws and governance requirements across our geographies
- Establish reliable people data and dashboards to support decision-making and insights that build trust in the people function
- Partner with Finance on headcount planning, compensation frameworks, and cost discipline to remove operational frictions
Requirements
- 8+ years in leadership roles in scaling organizations; People / HR leadership is a plus
- Demonstrated experience in org design, leadership development, and systems building.
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels.
- Strong business acumen; able to connect people's decisions to financial and operational outcomes.
- Can thoughtfully apply AI to people systems, manager enablement, and decision-making to support scale and efficiency (without over-engineering or losing the human element).
- Deep understanding of East African labor contexts is a strong advantage.
- Self-confidence, integrity, high energy, empathy, and a sense of humor to navigate diverse cultural contexts.
Benefits
- A competitive salary and benefits commensurate with experience
- Employee share options are also available for this position, giving you ownership in Numida’s overall success.
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