Climate-KIC

People & Culture Lead

Climate-KIC

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇳🇱 Netherlands

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Job Level

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