People & Culture Manager

Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit delivering real transparency and accountability for market impacts on nature and people. Our special focus is on ending deforestation – an essential step in achieving urgent global goals on climate, nature and human rights.

As People and Culture Manager, working to the Director of Planning and Execution, you will be responsible for the evolution of the People function at Global Canopy. Providing support to the Leadership Team and colleagues across teams, you will be at the heart of an inclusive culture. You will lead on People initiatives that create stronger relationships, more effective learning and professional development, and crucially better delivery of our work and greater impact as an organisation.

You will bring strong relationship-building and influencing skills and deep technical expertise to ensure that we can recruit, retain, develop, support and deeply engage the people we rely on to deliver our vital work for forests, nature and human rights. You will manage all aspects of team members’ journey with the organisation, including recruitment, performance management, employee relations and payroll.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, these are the things that will matter the most: 

• People-first and positive approach to HR management 
• Broad experience of managing human resources work across organisations, with a good understanding of HR procedures and legislation in the UK
• A deep alignment with our values and our mission, and a passion for collaboratively contributing to a deeply grounded organisational culture in which people thrive

Essential behavioural competencies: 

• Leading with warmth 
• Credibility as both structured and effective as well as emotionally intelligent
• Able to handle difficult situations sensitively and confidentially
• Initiative & ability to manage and prioritise own workload, working to deadlines
• Creativity

At Global Canopy, we value diversity and inclusion. You can read our diversity statement on our website. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to having a team with a diverse set of skills, experiences and abilities.

Global Canopy works on issues of global deforestation. We are particularly interested in strengthening our team to include those with a background from forest regions such as Latin America and South East Asia. We would welcome applications from people from these regions.  

Applicant data will be managed in accordance with the candidate privacy policy available on our website.