Head of People

GiveCampus is the world's leading fundraising platform for non-profit educational institutions. Trusted by 1,300+ colleges, universities, and K-12 schools, our mission is to help advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education. We received a seed investment from Y Combinator in 2015 and have pursued a strategy of 'Sustainable Growth' ever since: achieving six consecutive years of profitability and positive cash-flow while more than quadrupling our revenue, our customer base, and our team. In 2022, we raised $50 million to accelerate the next stage of our growth.

Through The GiveCampus Social Mobility Initiative, we've donated $1 million in free fundraising support for programs that help low-income students, first-generation students, and underrepresented minorities. And in 2022 and 2023, we were named to Y Combinator's Top Companies list and the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies.

While we operate at meaningful scale (we've facilitated more than $6 billion in charitable giving), we’re still small relative to the commercial and social good opportunities in front of us. Every GiveCampus employee has a substantial impact on our trajectory, and we're growing to help schools achieve even greater results.

Our purpose-driven team of 90+ is located across the US: team members work from anywhere they choose. We have a beautiful 12,000sf office in Washington, DC that is available for people to use whenever they want, and we regularly organize team meet-ups, events, and retreats in various locations. We're looking to expand our team with diverse and collaborative doers who believe in our mission and the transformative power of affordable, high-quality education.

We believe that our competitive advantage lies in our people and that a key driver to our long-term success is enabling teams and individuals to thrive. We are looking for a Head of People who will help make GiveCampus a great place to work and grow. You’ll work with executives, managers, and team members across the company to strategize and implement systems, processes, and programs that help people succeed. This role will be a player/coach in a small people team.

As the Head of People, you will serve as both a strategic leader and a hands-on practitioner in a small but impactful people team. You’ll be directly responsible for executing initiatives, solving day-to-day challenges, and delivering measurable results in areas like performance management, talent acquisition, and learning and development. This role demands someone who thrives in both planning and doing.

Priorities:

• Itinerate and improve our performance management system
  • Improve review quality by implementing streamlined workflows and actionable feedback models
  • Develop a framework to evaluate our team members and train managers to develop tailed career progression plans tied to measurable outcomes
  • Ensure all departments adopt measurable OKR’s at the individual level and train managers to set clear, outcome-driven expectations
• Develop and Roll out a Comprehensive Compensation Philosophy
  • Develop and execute a compensation strategy aligned with organizational performance metrics, including equity, market benchmarks, and pay-for-performance principles
  • Implement systems that reward high performers with tangible and intangible incentives, emphasizing contributions beyond compensation
• Develop and Roll out a Learning and Development Program
  • Design L&D initiatives with measurable objectives, such as increased leadership bench strength, skill improvement rates, and competency gains
  • Establish KPIs for company-wide training initiatives, focusing on leadership development, emerging talent management, and targeted skill-building programs.
• Build out a talent acquisition function
  • Build a metrics-driven recruitment process with KPIs for time-to-hire, candidate quality, and employer brand reputation.

Responsibilities will include:

• Serve as a trusted advisor and key thought partner to GiveCampus leadership on all things people-related.
• Own and implement our compensation and benefits programs, including salary bands, market analysis and overall compensation philosophy. Keep a continuous pulse on the competitive landscape.
• Design and execute initiatives that cultivate an inclusive and high-performance culture throughout the employee life cycle including: a performance review program, a world-class onboarding experience, and a learning and development program to help GiveCampers achieve meaningful growth.
• Act as a coach to managers in the organization on performance management and employee relations.
• Partner with leaders to develop and implement a talent strategy by anticipating future talent needs, recruitment forecasts, succession planning, and retention planning for critical positions.
• Analyze people data and trends to inform decisions on strategy and programs.
• Build scalable people operations for growth and operational change through streamlined and documented SOP’s, implementation of a HR technology stack that will scale, partner with department heads to build optimal organizational structures
• Help ensure GiveCampus’s compliance with federal, state, and local labor regulations; develop and maintain HR policies.

What we are looking for:

• 8+ years experience including leadership experience within a People Operations or HR function in a rapidly scaling startup.
• Functional expertise across all general areas of HR, including organizational design, planning, employee experience, talent and performance management, compensation, diversity and inclusion, employee relations, policy writing & compliance.
• Ability to build and drive HR strategy and programs while also executing and implementing with detail and precision.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and facilitation skills, and experience supporting employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strong project management and collaboration skills with a proven ability to balance shifting priorities and meet deadlines.
• Soft skills:
  • Ability to manage multiple opinions
  • Massaging messages
  • Playing the long game
  • Getting leadership onboard 
  • Dealing with passive aggressiveness
  • Lean organization

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At GiveCampus, we value diversity and we pledge to foster an environment of support, inclusivity, and learning, both on the job and throughout the application process. In this spirit, we encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

GiveCampus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are not discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws.

If you feel like you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, please apply anyways. We know confidence gaps and imposter syndrome often get in the way of connecting with incredible people, and we don't want them to prevent us from meeting you.