Global Reward Lead

What we are looking for:

Ready to lead and make a global impact? Join NRC as our Global Reward Lead and take the lead in shaping and delivering our global Compensation & Benefits strategy. 

In this both strategic and hands-on role, you’ll head a dynamic pooled reward team, guiding NRC Country Offices, NORCAP, and P&O Operations with expert support and insight. You’ll oversee resource allocation based on organisational priorities, manage a regional portfolio, and serve as the thematic lead on key projects. With a 70% focus on operational delivery and 30% on strategic leadership, this is your chance to influence reward practices across a global humanitarian organisation. 

If you're passionate about innovation, strategy, and driving HR excellence on a global scale - we’d love to hear from you!

What you will do:

• Line management responsibility for direct reports, overseeing performance management, workforce planning, recruitment, staff development, duty of care, and ensuring effective work planning and resource allocation based on organisational priorities.
• Ensure quality and effective support provided by Reward pooled team. Standardize P&O Reward approaches within assigned portfolio and coordinate with other teams to align on minimum standards, best practices or specific operational needs.
• Lead on and coordinate the effective and quality implementation of reward systems, tools, and procedures, including pay scale development, allowances, and benefits determination across all NRC operations.
• Lead on the provision of technical guidance on reward and compensation and benefits topics across the Employee Lifecycle for assigned portfolio.
• Provide expert advice for NRC’s senior management decision-making by preparing business cases, briefing documents, and making recommendations on reward-related matters, including policy exceptions and deviations.
• Build capacity within Reward by training and mentoring P&O Managers, country office focal points, and people managers, enhancing management capability and accountability.
• Lead on reward policy review and development, working with stakeholders to design, consult, implement, and monitor changes in related P&O policies, strategies, and frameworks.
• Embed change management principles in reward policy implementation, ensuring strong stakeholder engagement and smooth adoption of new and updated procedures.
• Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures, and a specific responsibility for the functions policies and procedures.
• Develop, review, and facilitate approval processes for national pay scales while maintaining centralized information resources, including benchmarking data.
• Build capacity within Reward by training and mentoring P&O Managers, country office focal points, and people managers, enhancing management capability and accountability.
• Establish structured consultation mechanisms with country offices, P&O management and Senior management to review and improve Reward P&O policies, tools, and operational frameworks.
• Develop and support compliance mechanisms to ensure adherence to P&O policies, handbooks, guidelines, procedures, and national labour laws related to Reward topics/guidance.
• Maintain relationships with external partners and suppliers (e.g., AIRINC, Birches, etc.) and represent the organisation in reward forums and benchmarking exercises.
• Coordinate and follow up on the maintenance and management of reward data in NRC’s P&O Management System.
• Act as the first escalation point for complex reward cases, including requests for exceptions, deviations or new practices as per CO and NORCAP operational needs. Build business cases for P&O management approvals and provide decision making as delegated from Head of P&O Operations.
• Ensure quality assurance in reward-related processes, tracking derogations and developing long-term solutions for operational challenges.

Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position. 

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources management, business administration, or any other relevant specialisation.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Human Resources Management generally with a specific experience in reward topics and practices, preferably in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Proven experience in driving and implementing change.