Fractional Senior People Advisor

About this role

Educate! is recruiting a Fractional Senior People Advisor to serve as a senior, part-time advisory partner to its Chief Executive Officer and executive team. Educate! is a youth employment and skills organisation working across Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania, and this engagement is designed for a seasoned people practitioner who can help leadership navigate consequential workforce decisions as the organisation scales past 300 staff.

To date, the organisation reports having meaningfully impacted more than 500,000 young people, and it has been backed by foundations including Imaginable Futures, the Livelihood Impact Fund and Echidna Giving. The advisor will act as a senior people business partner to the executive team, offering an independent read on organisational design, team composition and succession questions. 's global policy and the employment law of Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania into practical options the executive team can act on, setting out what is permissible, what it costs and how it affects trust. The post-holder will advise on live cases including restructures, exits, performance situations, grievances and investigations, judging when a global standard should hold and when local context should shift its application.

They will also coach individual team members through interpersonal and cross-cultural dynamics in a matrixed, multi-country organisation, design and facilitate sessions when teams are stuck, and shape messaging behind restructures, policy changes and leadership transitions, editing internal communications so they read as clear and honest. Candidates must bring at least eight years in senior human resources, people or organisational development roles, whether as a start-up people leader, an HR business partner to an executive team or an advisor to a chief executive. Strong writing ability is essential, as is the confidence to be a direct outside voice with top leaders while remaining discreet. 's five culture tenets is expected.