Thousand Currents

Content Writer

• Working under the direction of the Director of Communications, the Lead Writer will manage organizational writing and content development to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with Thousand Currents’ voice and brand.
• They will write high-impact, donor facing communications (one pagers, fact sheets, concept notes, educational materials and messaging for donor organizing and education); thought leadership pieces (op-eds, speeches, “Letters from the CEO,” long form website posts); and other more traditional organizational materials (organizational brochures, Annual Report).

Lead Writer

People Operations

• Support recruitment and hiring processes in close collaboration with hiring managers, providing guidance on job descriptions, role scope, candidate assessment, and equitable hiring practices aligned with organizational values and workforce needs.
• Coordinate onboarding processes and schedules, supporting hiring managers and co-workers in understanding and fulfilling their roles, ensuring new staff feel welcomed and confident in completing required onboarding responsibilities.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to ensure job descriptions remain current, clearly scoped, and aligned with evolving responsibilities and organizational needs.
• Approach current people & culture processes with an eye for simplicity, clarity and continuous improvement by collecting feedback, conducting best practice research, and proposing improvements.
• Support human centric and values aligned offboarding processes.
• Capitalize on available data to surface trends and inform employee retention efforts, employee experience improvements and organisational culture initiatives.
• Support the Director, People & Culture in addressing employee relations matters, HR inquiries and day to day People & Culture needs for all employees, escalating matters to the Director, People & Culture as necessary.
• Oversee administration of the human resources information system (HRIS, currently Bamboo HR), ensuring staff records are secure, organized, and accessible at the appropriate level, and personnel data is up-to-date.
• Support day-to-day coordination of employee benefits programs, including for U.S.-based staff, enrollment support, qualifying life events, annual Open Enrollment, benefits communication, and partnership with external benefits administrators and brokers.
• Provide bi-weekly payroll updates to the Finance team and support timely personnel updates across all relevant platforms (HRIS, payroll, benefits, etc.)
• In collaboration with appropriate operations and technology staff, ensure People & Culture tools, resources, documents, and data are securely stored, easily searchable, and maintained in accordance with record retention laws and requirements.
• Ensure relevant HR dates, deadlines, and processes are communicated to staff, and information regarding people and culture processes flows smoothly.
• Track key employee and contractor dates, prompting timely action on renewals or position updates, while ensuring impacted staff remain informed.
• Support strategies to improve employee engagement, celebration, and foster a collaborative, aligned, and joyful work environment.
• Champion and integrate organization values into daily operations, implementing programs and providing resources to support employee well-being and work-life balance.

Lead Writer

Manager, People and Culture