VP of HR Operations

Job Description

Reporting to the Managing Director, Finance and Administration, the VP of Human Resources Operations will lead a strategic vision for human resource operations. This role must be closely aligned with the mission and the intended goals and impact. They will partner with the Chief of Talent/Talent team, Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director, Finance and Administration to implement the strategy throughout the organization. This role ensures effective management and execution of all aspects of compensation and benefit planning, data management and payroll, retirement and PEOs, for the US and Global teams.

The VP of Human Resources Operations will directly supervise a team of 4-5 Human Resources professionals, mostly people this person will hire. They will be responsible for structuring, leading, mentoring, and supporting this team to ensure myAgro’s daily HR operations are well executed and effective.

Priorities for the first two years

• Bring a strategic vision to HR Operations, create the priorities for the team supported by data assessment to then develop organization-wide processes

• Manage and oversee a new PEO model (including global payroll)
• Build and hire a new team to support Human Resources operations throughout West Africa and the US.
• Create structures and automated systems for compliance, benefits and bonuses

Responsibilities

Strategy and Leadership

• Assess all aspects of myAgro’s human resource structure, systems, policies and programs, for relevance to its mission and organizational structure. Implement a plan using data for improvement across all HR functions and operations to meet changing internal and external conditions
• Have a strategic vision around diversity and inclusion. Utilize data analysis to reach that vision (including policies, operating procedures, etc.)
• Develop strong relationships with myAgro employees and set up easy communication channels across the organization to seek input, problem solve, inform, and ensure employee needs are met; must have a pulse on the organization and making lives of the employees easier

Administration

• Hire and lead the Human Resources team to deliver high quality and responsive HR services, programs and procedures, ensuring the team can effectively address the challenges of a highly dynamic and diverse organization.
• Organize and oversee employee benefits program, track benefits trends and new developments, ensuring compliance with local government regulations.
• Maintain ongoing communication with staff to seek their input and keep them informed of human resources policies, regulations, and practices.

Labor Relations & Compliance

• Design and implement organization-wide management policies and procedures that are best-in-class and consistent with myAgro’s mission.
• Anticipate and resolve complex problems and questions, including employee relations issues, in an economical and equitable manner compliant with legal regulations and general business practices, collaborating with General Counsel as needed.
• In collaboration with General Counsel, ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory agency guidelines and standards.

Qualifications

The VP of Human Resources Operations will have the following experiences and attributes:

• Experience in leading HR operations, both as an effective strategist and practitioner, with a track record of successful execution of human resources programs and operations
• Track record of success leading and navigating organizational change in a scaling organization; comfortable with the ambiguity this brings
• Has significant years of leadership/management experience at an organization with a large distributed workforce
• Demonstrated experience and commitment to building and working within a diverse, equitable, inclusive, multi-cultural, and anti-racist community
• Knowledge of US employment law and has experience working in an international organization
• Has experience working with and managing PEO / third-party employment relationships
• Excited by details and knows how to make robust structures and procedures to automate, simplify and improve HR ops across the organization
• Considers themselves to be an active listener and a collaborator; has the experience and ability to build deep and trusting relationships; always seeks to understand
• Understands how to be a thought partner across a large, complex organization
• Experience in navigating different views of professional life and diverse cultures/perspectives/views (US vs. Africa and other nations)
• Deep expertise in growing, building and supervising a team
• Excellent interpersonal, project management, customer service and organizational skills
• The ability to manage difficult situations with tact and diplomacy, multi-task in a fast-paced environment, and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to take a solutions-oriented approach to tackling challenges
• Has experience predicting what’s needed next to support rapid growth and will propose structures to support those changes

myAgro is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals and endeavors to hire individuals of diverse races, colors, creeds, ethnicities, religions, genders, gender identities or expressions, ages, sexes, sexual orientations, national origins, and disabilities, as well as those with protected citizen, marital or partnership, pregnancy, and veteran or health statuses (including HIV status and genetic information). myAgro strongly encourages women to apply.

This position description is based upon material provided by myAgro, an equal opportunity employer.

Sarah Raful Whinston, Principal

Jennifer Fleischer, Senior Talent Consultant

Henry Greenblatt, Associate

To apply to this position please visit www.DRGsearch.com.

About the Organization

myAgro is combating food and economic insecurity among some of the world’s most vulnerable individuals by providing smallholder farmers with access to the resources they need to escape poverty. Unlike many peer organizations with credit-based solutions, myAgro enables farmers to pay for seeds, fertilizer, and other resources in small increments as they save over the course of a year. This mobile layaway tool, plus myAgro’s just-in-time resource delivery system, superior product, and its robust agricultural training approach form a unique suite of services which raise farmers’ annual income by 50-100%, increase their rates of repayment, and markedly improve their families’ lives.

In addition to providing farmers with wraparound support from planting to harvest, myAgro operates a successful social enterprise model through which it trains and employs Village Entrepreneurs to expand the model into their local communities. This highly effective sales- and customer-centric approach has generated significant earned revenue, created a strong track record of growth, and set the stage for continued scale. For the past 5 years, myAgro has grown 60% each year, and the team is now 600+ strong with a community of 2,000+ Village Entrepreneurs working in 2,000 villages across three countries. To date, the organization has reached 115,000 farmers in Senegal, Mali, and Tanzania, and is now on track to reach its ambitious North Star of serving 1 million farmers by 2025.

To hear more about myAgro’s impact and story, watch the Ted Talk, “Helping small- scale farmers break the poverty cycle” with CEO and Founder, Anushka Ratnayake at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQO-ptAaYFk.

Learn more about our work at www.myagro.org.

115,000 farmers served in 2021

78% more food grown

1.1M bags of additional food

$178 increased annual income per family

2,000 (more) field measurements taken each year

$2 Social Return on Investment (and growing to $10)

70% of farmers are women

21x more calcium and 4x more than maize-only packages

Learn more about our work at www.myagro.org/impact.