Reward and Recognition Manager

UNAVAILABLE; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Globally remote role

Small expert team

Impactful transformation

Job summary

MAF International is seeking a Reward & Recognition Manager to design and implement a global reward framework across multiple countries and currencies. The role entails embedding the framework, governance, and international pay methodologies while aligning benefits with local markets and cost-of-living factors.

You will lead a small expert team, collaborate with external specialists, and report to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Senior global reward experience
• Experience designing international pay frameworks
• COLA methodology and expatriate compensation
• Job evaluation and market benchmarking
• Pay structures and recognition practice
• Strong analytical and modelling skills
• Compensation certification welcomed
• High integrity and sound judgement
• Ability to communicate reward clearly

Responsibilities

• Embed the approved reward framework across geographies
• Own implementation, monitoring and governance of the framework
• Develop methodology behind international pay
• Set global minimum standards for benefits
• Design recognition approaches with L&OD and People Care
• Contribute to payroll organisation across countries
• Advise leadership up to Board level on reward philosophy

Job description

Overview

Reward & Recognition Manager

Help shape the reward, benefits and recognition framework for a newly integrated global organisation, and lead its implementation

Location: Flexible, with a preference for the successful candidate to be based at one of our MAF International entities.

MAF International is a Christian not-for-profit organisation that uses aviation to deliver essential services — medical evacuations, supplies, disaster relief and education — to remote communities across Africa and Asia Pacific.

With an 80-year history, MAF International is undergoing a major transformation — integrating a historically federated structure into a single global organisation, with the goal of reaching more than 5,000 remote communities by 2045. Its new People Operations and Strategic Projects function is being built now, and this role helps shape it from the start.

Why this role matters

Designing reward across many countries and currencies — competitive enough to attract talent, equitable enough that colleagues trust the system, and financially sustainable — is a genuinely complex problem. You would shape the answer alongside colleagues around the world.

As Reward and Recognition Manager you lead a department of two sub-functions — pay structures and framework, and benefits, allowances and recognition — serving around 850 staff across roughly 20 pay and legal jurisdictions, including some 120 internationally mobile staff. This is a build role, not a caretaker role: you’ll bring reward expertise to our global reward framework project, alongside an external specialist partner and colleagues across the organisation, and then own its implementation, monitoring and governance.

Please note: Candidates must hold existing legal working rights for their proposed location of employment.

Salary: Competitive and flexible, with remuneration aligned to the successful candidate’s location, experience, and local employment context.

Responsibilities

What You'll Be Doing

• Embed the approved reward and recognition framework across our geographies — balancing market competitiveness, internal equity and affordability.
• Act as reward specialist in the global reward framework project, then own the approved framework’s implementation, monitoring and governance across MAF International.
• Develop and maintain the methodology behind international pay: north/south pay frameworks, cost-of-living methodology and hardship scales.
• Set global minimum standards for benefits while keeping their design and delivery close to each local employment market.
• Design recognition approaches with L&OD and People Care that reinforce agreed behaviours and contribution.
• Contribute to a People and Culture and Finance project on how payroll will be organised across the countries we operate in.
• Advise leadership up to Board level on reward philosophy and lead a small expert team.

Closing date: Applications close on the 27th November

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

What You'll Bring

• A successful track record in a senior global reward role, ideally in an international or not-for-profit organisation.
• Experience designing international pay frameworks — north/south structures, COLA methodology and expatriate compensation.
• Deep technical craft: job evaluation, market benchmarking, pay structures and recognition practice.
• Strong analytical and modelling skills; a compensation certification is welcome.
• The ability to make reward clear and credible — so people at every level understand and trust how they’re paid.
• High integrity, courageous judgement, and the ability to make reward decisions that hold organisational, financial and values considerations together.
• You share our vision, mission and values.

Why MAF?

• A rare chance to build, not just run — you join as the function takes shape, with genuine influence on its design.
• Work from anywhere: this role is globally remote, because talent matters more than time zone.
• A small, expert team with real influence, in an organisation whose work has measurable impact.