People & Culture Lead (Orchestrator)

As a People & Culture Orchestrator, you will lead a small People team and establish your position as a trusted business partner to:

• Design and deliver an adaptive People Strategy aligned with our Next Season transformation: identifying, developing, and mobilising capability in the most sustainable and human-centred way possible.
• Drive a high-performance culture that is purpose-led, grounded in psychological safety and continuous learning.
• Develop Climate KIC’s EVP into one of the most compelling in the world, particularly for people motivated by purpose, collaboration, and impact.
• Optimise people practices under our Remote-First and Distributed Team strategy, ensuring we continue to attract, develop, and mobilise world-class talent across multiple jurisdictions.

This role creates positive change by shaping Climate KIC's organizational evolution and culture, enabling the team to drive climate innovation and systemic transformation across Europe, directly contributing to climate action and the EU's climate missions.

Requirements:

• Senior experience across HR / People / OD, ideally with exposure to consulting or dynamic, scaling organisations.
• Experience working in transformation contexts, where operating models, leadership capability and culture were evolving simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor and influence leaders and teams across diverse personalities and power dynamics.
• Familiarity with remote-first, international workforce models and multi-jurisdictional People practices.

What we offer:

• A deeply purpose-led organisation where your work contributes directly to climate action and systemic transformation
• A learning-rich environment with continuous opportunities to grow your skills, practice, and leadership
• Recharge Break: the whole company closes down in the last week of the year so that everyone can truly switch off.
• 5 Additional Days for Personal Development: we are passionate about continuous learning.
• Competitive salary for a not-for-profit organisation
• High degree of flexibility to accommodate working patterns
• Remote-first approach with opportunities for in-person connection

Climate KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Community) is Europe's foremost climate innovation initiative. Our mission is to leverage the power of systems innovation to transform whole places, industries and value chains by 2030, working across sectors to develop and scale ambitious programmes.