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"<p>At Make-A-Wish® America, we are more than a great place to work — our work is life-changing. Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Nearly 40 years ago the inspiration for Make-A-Wish began with one little boy's wish to be a police officer. Today, together with our volunteers, donors, staff and supporters, Make-A-Wish has granted more than 500,000 life-changing wishes and transformed countless lives. </p><p><strong>THE ROLE</strong> </p><p>The Chief People Officer leads the overall direction of people practices, services and processes including talent acquisition; talent development and succession/impact planning; total rewards/benefits and compensation; people strategy design and implementation across Make-A-Wish America. This position will also design, guide, and implement people initiatives across the extended network of national Chapters in partnership with chapter leadership and chapter/mission advancement. This position drives a comprehensive set of strategies to attract, retain and motivate top talent throughout the organization; integrate new technologies that advance the mission; and promote and continue to enhance a strong culture of collaboration and cooperation. The incumbent will be a National Office staff liaison to the National Board of Directors Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee, providing guidance and support. This leader must demonstrate a passionate commitment to the organization's mission, purpose, and brand, serving as a mentor to management and staff. This includes a hands-on approach to achieving goals and objectives. This position will report to the Chief Transform Officer and works collaboratively with the broader Senior Leadership Team.</p><p><strong>WHERE YOU COME IN</strong> </p><p><em>Key areas of responsibility:</em></p><ul><li>Collaboratively influence to gain broad stakeholder support when developing, implementing, and promoting strategies, initiatives, projects, and implementation in a shared leadership environment and federated model.</li><li>Providing general supervision of people tools, resources and services. This includes guiding selection decisions; providing direction in the development of leaders and staff; assigning duties; and evaluating and implementing solutions that enhance the performance and impact of key leaders/staff driving results across these functions.</li><li>Overseeing the development, implementation, operation and enhancement of the organization’s people strategies and solutions , including fiscal controls, workforce planning and interpretation of trends and necessary actions to safeguard the organization’s assets.</li><li>Playing a leadership role in assuring that the workplace culture of Make-A-Wish America reflects the values, mission, and objectives of Make-A-Wish by ensuring and enhancing the organizations attention to culture including key characteristics that include respect and kindness; creating an environment where people can lean in and bring their personal skills and perspective to the workplace; demonstrating gratitude and recognition.</li><li>Facilitating people solutioning across the extended organization – including both the national office and chapters.</li><li>Overseeing resource allocation and budgeting of key people strategies by collaborating to ensure people team assets are used in the most effective ways.</li><li>The incumbent will be a National Office staff liaison to the National Board of Directors Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee, providing guidance and support.</li></ul><p><em>Key functional responsibilities include the following:</em></p><ul><li>Collaborating across the Senior Leadership Team to effectively gather insights and influence key leadership and people practices.</li><li>Supervising all People programs to include assessment, design, and implementation of recommendation of policies; coordination and administration of workforce planning and classification; compensation planning and execution including executive compensation and incentive programs; benefits development and implementation; investment planning including retirement development; and other people programs including staff development; succession and impact planning; and retention strategies across the employee experience.</li><li>Evolve people strategies to support technology and business transformations.</li><li>Supporting and strengthening employee wellness across the national office.</li><li>Leading the ongoing development of a workplace where every employee knows that they are valued and feel enabled to personally contribute to the advancement of the organization’s mission and strategic plan.</li><li>Providing leadership for sensitive employee relations issues. Serves as a trusted partner leading managers and employees through the process.</li></ul><p><em>Additional duties:</em></p><ul><li>Develop work objectives and review progress periodically.</li><li>Work with the CTO to build annual operating budget and shepherd approval of the budget through the Board’s Finance Committee.</li><li>Report to the CTO on the progress made toward goals.</li><li>Set goals for departments and individuals/leaders to deliver and drive performance/results against targeted success metrics.</li><li>Attend and participate in Board meetings, including providing expert guidance on people initiatives and best practices.</li><li>Collaborate with colleagues to develop improvements.</li><li>Resolve issues and addressing risks that may arise in a timely manner.</li><li>Assume responsibility for timely reporting to senior management or regulatory agencies.</li></ul><p><strong>Knowledge and Abilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Excellent and extensive Human Resources and Learning leadership experience</li><li>Strategic thinker</li><li>Demonstrated ability to influence without direct-line authority</li><li>Outstanding leadership/people management skills with the ability to energize others</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with people at all levels of the organization</li><li>Excellent business acumen and negotiation skills</li><li>Exceptional written and oral communication and presentation skills for both external and internal presentations</li><li>Application of technology to business settings</li><li>Working collaboratively in a team environment</li><li>Experience in talent acquisition function and evolving strategies</li><li>Strong knowledge of compensation and benefit programs and compliance issues</li><li>Demonstrated track record delivering on commitments</li><li>Flexibility to quickly shift priorities, multi-task and juggle simultaneous requirements in fast paced environment and manage all to completion</li><li>Proven track record for working with an executive management team and at the board level</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams</li></ul><p><strong>WHAT YOU’LL NEED</strong> </p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Management, or related field required. Master’s degree in HR, Organizational Development or Business Administration preferred.</li><li>10+ years of increasing responsibility, serving at the senior leadership level.</li><li>Success leading progressive and modern HR and people strategies in a complex organization.</li><li>PHR/SPHR and/or CCP/CBP Human Resource designation preferred.</li><li>Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications required, as well as Internet and other software applications.</li><li>Nonprofit organization experience preferred.</li></ul><p><strong>REMOTE ROLES</strong></p><p>Make-A-Wish® America is actively recruiting for this position in the following states: AZ, CA, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, and WA. </p><p><strong>WHAT WE OFFER</strong> </p><ul><li>Competitive compensation with annual incentive potential </li><li>Comprehensive benefit package: Medical, Vision*, Dental*, Wellness </li><li>Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account Options </li><li>Short Term Disability*, Long Term Disability* and Life Insurance </li><li>401(k) Retirement Savings Plan </li><li>15 PTO days, 10 Sick Days, 11 Paid Holidays, 2 Volunteer Days, and 2 Personal Days accrued annually </li><li>Maternity Leave  </li><li>Employee Awards and Recognition Programs </li><li>Individual and Leadership Development </li><li>Discounts and special offers for theme parks, events, hotels, concerts, and movie tickets </li></ul><p>*Monthly premiums paid for the employee for vision, dental, and short/long term disability. </p><p><strong>Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion Vision</strong> </p><p>Make-A-Wish is committed to championing diversity, equity and inclusion, fostering an organization that is accessible and welcoming. In turn, we are uniting communities to help make more wishes possible.</p><ul><li>Our mission is most effectively fulfilled through a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion as core values and practice.</li><li>It is only through our mosaic of different cultures, perspectives and experiences that we can grant life-changing wishes to every eligible child.</li><li>As the world’s largest wish-granting organization we stand against racism and intolerance and are committed to representation and acceptance, creating a sense of belonging, and practicing fairness in creating opportunities for our wish families, volunteers and staff. </li></ul><p><strong>Location: </strong>United States (remote)</p><p><br></p><iframe src=></iframe><p><br></p><p><em>We respect and ensure equal opportunity, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, perceived disability and other legally protected characteristics.</em> </p><p> </p><p><img src=https://i.ibb.co/mvHZg1R/Most-Trusted-Nonprofit-Badge-STACKED-RGB-002.jpg></p><p> </p><p><a href=https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Make-A-Wish-Foundation-of-America-EI_IE15278.11,44.htm><img src=https://www.glassdoor.com/api/widget/verticalStarRating.htm?e=15278></a></p><p><br></p>"
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