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.

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 oral and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to hold confidential and sensitive information with care and empathy.
• Ability to manage a growing team with competing demands.
• Sets and achieves high-performance expectations that are motivating and results-oriented.
• Seeks out and delivers timely and direct feedback.
• Highly collaborative work style with the ability to operate as a peer and thought partner to the Chief of Staff, Vice President of Operations & Planning and other leadership team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Human Resources Certification, such as PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP.
• Proficiency with people operations technology (e.g., performance management software, applicant tracking systems).

Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Rewiring America values diversity in all its forms and is committed to inclusive and transparent recruitment, hiring and promotion processes. Candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

Hiring Statement

Rewiring America, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Rewiring America is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working. 

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this position is [$200,000 - $250,000] USD, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Rewiring America is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). 
• 100% employer-paid short term and long term disability insurance and life insurance policies.
• Employees automatically receive a 6% safe-harbor employer contribution to their 401k retirement plan, regardless of their own contributions. 
• Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. 
• Full Time Employees will receive 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 24 hours of volunteer leave annually. 
• Employees will also receive 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year (13 days during Presidential and Congressional elections). 
• We have an office closure between Christmas and New Year. 
• Regular, full-time employees and part-time employees are eligible to take up to sixteen weeks of parental leave, in all cases related to birth, adoption, or foster care starting from the first day of employment. 
• We offer access to professional development resources including up to $2000 per calendar year to use towards your growth and development.

Application Procedure 

To apply or nominate a candidate, please submit an application and resume via the Rewiring America page at Workable.This position is open until filled, and we are moving quickly to fill this position -- apply as soon as possible. Candidate review and phone screens begin immediately and will be conducted throughout the search period.

E-Verify 

Windward participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and employees authorized to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.