Vice President, People and Culture

About this role

We’re looking for a Vice President, People and Culture to join our People Area.
When you come work with us, here’s what you’ll find:

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Work that is meaningful. We are a fast-paced, deadline-driven consulting firm that only works with nonprofit clients who are essential to advancing the cause of justice, alleviating suffering, and solving the greatest challenges we face.

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Commitment to Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion (AEI). We envision an anti-oppressive workplace that ensures an inclusive employee experience, promotes equitable outcomes for staff, and supports clients to center accessibility and anti-racism in their programs.

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Colleagues you can count on. Kind, dedicated, passionate people who work collaboratively to get things done and help you do your best.

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An organization that embraces change. We strive to improve and adapt and always seek new ways that we can contribute to a just, inclusive, and sustainable world. We are also continually working on making M+R a better place for our staff.

So that’s us. Now about the work:

The Vice President, People and Culture is part of our Shared Services Division -- comprising four areas: finance and accounting; operations; people; and marketing and business development. We ensure M+R is positioned to deliver outstanding services to clients such as Planned Parenthood, Feeding America, International Rescue Committee, NRDC, and many more.

Day-to-day, we help cultivate high-functioning teams and a healthy and psychological safe work environment, so that our staff can work collaboratively, efficiently, and effectively, fostering a strong organizational culture that reflects and furthers M+R’s values.

Here’s what you’ll be doing in this role:

We are seeking an experienced People leader to develop and execute an enterprise-wide talent strategy that ensures M+R has the people, capabilities, leadership, and organizational capacity needed to achieve its goals.

Reporting to the Chief People and Culture Officer, the Vice President, People and Culture leads the organization’s talent strategy and workforce planning, with oversight of talent acquisition, staffing operations, employee and leadership development, succession planning, talent management, and organizational effectiveness. The Vice President partners with senior leaders to anticipate current and future talent needs, build critical capabilities, strengthen leadership pipelines, attract and retain high-quality talent, and create meaningful opportunities for employees to grow and contribute.

The ideal candidate brings strategic vision, strong business acumen, and deep expertise in talent strategy, workforce planning, and organizational development, with a demonstrated ability to translate organizational priorities into scalable talent programs and build high-performing teams and scalable People programs.

Key Responsibilities:

People Strategy & Strategic Leadership

• Develop and lead an integrated, enterprise-wide talent strategy aligned with M+R’s mission, values, business priorities, and future needs.

• Partner with senior leaders to assess current and future talent requirements, identify critical capabilities, and develop strategies to attract, retain, develop, and deploy talent effectively.

• Establish talent priorities, workforce plans, and measurable goals that strengthen organizational capability, performance, retention, and leadership capacity.

• Build and maintain a strong leadership and talent pipeline, including succession planning and strategies for critical and hard-to-fill roles.

• Use workforce and talent data, organizational insights, and external market trends to identify talent risks, gaps, and opportunities and inform strategic decisions.

• Lead and develop staffing, recruiting, and talent development teams, including the Senior Director, Talent Development and Director, Staffing Operations.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders on talent, workforce, culture, organizational effectiveness, and change.

• Champion equity, inclusion, belonging, and psychological safety throughout the employee lifecycle.

• Continuously evaluate and evolve talent practices, systems, and technology to improve organizational effectiveness and employee experience.

Talent, Workforce Planning, and Organizational Effectiveness

• Provide strategic oversight of talent acquisition, staffing operations, and workforce planning.

• Develop staffing models, capacity plans, talent pipelines, and workforce forecasts aligned with organizational priorities and budgets.

• Strengthen recruiting strategies, employer brand, and employee value proposition in partnership with Marketing and Business Development.

• Establish talent acquisition metrics and use data to improve quality of hire, retention, candidate experience, and workforce outcomes.

• Ensure talent practices promote fairness, consistency, diversity, and an exceptional candidate experience.

• Lead an enterprise-wide strategy for leadership development, career development, talent mobility, performance, and succession planning.

• Identify the capabilities and skills M+R will need to achieve its future goals and develop strategies to build those capabilities internally.

• Establish talent review and succession planning processes for key roles and partner with leaders to develop high-potential and emerging talent.

• Create career pathways and opportunities that support retention, engagement, internal mobility, and long-term growth.

• Foster a culture of continuous learning, accountability, performance, and professional growth.

Skills and experiences required for this role:

• At least 15 years of progressive HR/People experience, including at least 10 years in leadership roles.

• Experience developing and executing enterprise-wide People and Culture strategies aligned with organizational priorities.

• Expertise across talent acquisition, workforce planning, employee engagement, talent development, performance…