
People & Culture Lead
Climate-KIC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
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Senior
About the role
- You will be a fundamental part of Climate KIC’s leadership team, shaping the next phase of our organisational evolution as we transition into our “Next Season”
- Design and deliver an adaptive People Strategy aligned with our Next Season transformation
- 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.
- Optimise people practices under our Remote-First and Distributed Team strategy.
- Evolve our organisational architecture and guide leadership capability to emphasise collaboration, systemic thinking, and adaptive leadership.
- Champion colleague experience and engagement.
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.
- Proven ability to lead People initiatives that integrate culture, organisation design, leadership development and people systems.
Benefits
- 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.
- High degree of flexibility to accommodate working patterns.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
people strategyorganisation designleadership developmentpeople systemscoachingmentoringinfluencing
Soft skills
collaborationsystemic thinkingadaptive leadershippsychological safetycontinuous learninghigh-performance cultureengagement