People & Culture Transformation Leader

Meridian International Center; Colorado; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Meridian International Center seeks a strategic Vice President, People & Culture to align people strategy, culture, HR operations, and organizational infrastructure with mission-driven priorities. The role will support a high-performing workforce and advise the CEO/ELT on workforce planning, leadership development, and compensation strategy.

The position requires turning workforce insights into scalable HR systems, improving performance management, onboarding, and total rewards while upholding

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field.
• Ten or more years of progressive HR leadership experience; SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or equivalent certification preferred.
• Experience advising senior leaders on organizational design, talent strategy, workforce planning, employee relations, and change management.
• Deep knowledge of employment law, HR best practices, HR technology, systems, analytics, and people metrics.
• Strong leadership, communication, relationship-building, judgment, discretion, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development to meet current and emerging business needs.
• Strengthen employee engagement, communication, collaboration, manager effectiveness, and organizational effectiveness.
• Coach leaders on talent management, employee development, performance feedback, and difficult workplace conversations.
• Oversee compensation philosophy, salary administration, job architecture, benefits strategy, and total rewards programs.
• Administer performance management to ensure alignment between employee performance and compensation.
• Develop and administer professional development requirements to support employee growth, skill development and retention of a qualified workforce.
• Improve HR processes, systems, HRIS administration, workforce analytics, reporting, and data governance.
• Establish/modernize scalable HR infrastructure to support organizational growth and evolving business requirements.

Skills

Strategy leadership

Organizational design

Change management

Talent development

Employee engagement

Coaching leaders

Communication skills

People analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

HRIS

Job description

Meridian International Center seeks a strategic Vice President, People & Culture to align people strategy, culture, HR operations, and organizational infrastructure with mission-driven priorities. The role will support a high-performing workforce and advise the CEO/ELT on workforce planning, leadership development, and compensation strategy.

The position requires turning workforce insights into scalable HR systems, improving performance management, onboarding, and total rewards while upholding