Head of People & Culture

Full-time; Remote; Exempt

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

The Opportunity and Position Summary

Rewiring America is growing rapidly. Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, we have an historic opportunity to electrify our communities. Rewiring America is at the heart of the strategy to leverage that opportunity and is scaling up its work significantly. Rewiring America is expanding rapidly and seeks an entrepreneurial Head of People & Culture to join our team. This position reports to the Chief of Staff, Vice President of Operations & Planning. Head of P&C will be a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for developing and driving strategic human resource functions to support our rapid growth. They will build and nurture a values-driven, inclusive, and high-performance organizational culture.

What You’ll Do

The Head of People & Culture holds key responsibilities that will evolve over time as the team grows and functions are distributed. We anticipate a focus on the following:

Organizational Culture Building

• Build upon and implement Rewiring America’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging efforts.
• Support the Chief of Staff, Vice President of Operations & Planning in scaling an organizational culture that is values- and purpose-driven, inclusive, results-oriented, and joyful.
• Implement inspired internal communications and organizational culture-building opportunities for a distributed team.

Performance Management

• Manage Rewiring America’s standards of skills and competencies at different position levels in close relationship with Function leaders..
• Manage Rewiring’s performance management program, including goal setting and performance evaluation processes.
• Create learning and professional development programs and initiatives.
• Provide guidance on productivity, recognition, morale-boosting, and team-building initiatives.
• Prioritize occupational health and safety for team members.
• Develop policies and tools to support performance improvement processes.
• Provide training and guidance to managers on strong performance management practices.

Talent Acquisition & Retention

• Scale an internal people and culture team to support rapid growth.
• Identify staffing and recruiting needs and develop innovative recruitment pipelines.
• Manage recruiters and consultants focused on talent acquisition.
• Leverage communications assets to reach diverse audiences of prospective applicants.
• Manage Rewiring America’s equity-centered compensation philosophy.
• Ensure strong implementation of onboarding and orientation processes.

Team & Departmental Management

• Develop and implement policies, processes, training, and initiatives to support human resource compliance.
• Partner with the General Counsel to ensure compliance with all federal regulations.
• Design, recruit, hire, and manage the People and Culture team.
• Establish annual objectives, provide feedback, conduct performance reviews, and support professional development.

Requirements

Who You Are

The ideal candidate for the Head of People & Culture embodies the qualities and characteristics necessary to lead a sophisticated and rapidly growing organization. They have a mix of expertise in equity work, human resources, talent management, and organizational development, with a background in scaling operations in a tech startup environment.

Core Qualifications

• Strong commitment to the mission, vision, policies, and goals of Rewiring America.
• 15+ years of increasing responsibility in human resources, with a proven track record of building new systems and practices.
• Experience with a high-growth clean energy/tech startup or similar environment.
• Experience designing and implementing innovative talent acquisition, performance management, organizational culture, and retention initiatives.
• Proven leadership skills with clarity of vision and a commitment to integrity, quality, and collaboration.
• Mastery of relationship-building skills with a wide range of people.
• Outstanding