Head of People Services

Location: Can be based in any BV country. If UK based, a minimum of 2 days per week in the office are required (London and Bristol)

Contract status & duration: full time 37.5 hours per week, permanent

Start date: As soon as possible

Application closing date: 21st December 2022

Remuneration: UK: £49,000 – £66,000 gross per annum; Madagascar: MGA 4,530,000 – MGA 6,000,000; Belize: BZD 50,300 – BZD 60,000; Timor-Leste: $31,000 – $45,000; Mozambique: MZN 2,693,000 – MZN 3,050,000; Kenya: KES 5,065,000 – KES 5,800,000; Tanzania: TZS 91,000,000 – TZS 105,000,000

Reports to: Director of People and Culture

Direct reports: HR Manager

We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities

Blue Ventures is a marine conservation organization that puts people first. We support coastal fishers in remote and rural communities to rebuild fisheries, restore ocean life and build lasting pathways to prosperity. Our work began two decades ago in Madagascar’s remote coastal communities and is growing globally. Across a dozen countries, we’re partnering with traditional fishers and community organizations to design, scale, strengthen and sustain fisheries management and conservation at the community level. We bring partners together in networks to advocate for reform, and share tools and best practices to support fishing communities across the globe.

Summary job description

The job holder is responsible for developing and delivering a high-quality mobility strategy for Blue Ventures, which supports our talent management aims and approach and enables the recruitment and retention of diverse talent:

– To provide global leadership on mobility strategy, best practices and compliance, including developing a new mobility approach that supports our People Strategy and talent management aims and approach with a particular focus on recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds to reflect the communities we serve.

– Enabling Blue Ventures to unlock the benefits of an agile and mobile workforce by defining and driving our global mobility agenda and establishing a process for the operations of the organisation and its workforce across international borders enabling employees to move from one location to another and the hiring of colleagues in different countries

– Ensuring Blue Ventures is compliant and cost-effective in the locations in which we operate

– Provide subject matter expertise for the approx. 350 Blue Ventures colleagues based in 14 countries.

– To build and maintain expertise with external providers

– To develop and capacity-build managers and HR colleagues in mobility matter

– To provide an end-to-end service for colleagues being deployed outside of their usual base country

– To manage all mobility casework, to maintain logs and records of all mobility cases.

– Responsible for all UK immigration matters and compliance, including managing Blue Ventures’ colleague sponsorship.

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