People and Culture Leader – Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam)

Udhyam: At Udhyam Learning Foundation (Udhyam), our vision is to “Co-create a caring world, where people fearlessly pursue their potential.” We believe that entrepreneurship is a powerful way to channelize an individual’s potential. Entrepreneurship enables agency and allows an individual to work on their strengths while creating value for the world.

Our programs:

• Udhyam Shiksha works on developing entrepreneurial mindsets among the youth and enabling them to achieve their potential, having impacted ~16,00,000 learners across 10 Indian states.
• Udhyam Vyapaar focuses on nano businesses in India, and solving large problems faced by them, at scale; having already enabled upto a 27% income uplift for 5000+ entrepreneurs.

The goal for Udhyam is to build a thriving and supportive ecosystem, where every individual feels empowered to define their own path.

People and Culture at Udhyam:

Udhyam’s team is the core engine driving it: people are our greatest strength. Our people along with a high focus on building an achievement culture has brought us the success we have seen in the last six years. We strive to create an employee-AND-mission-first culture. This balance –  though challenging, has been highly rewarding.

Our principles of autonomy with responsibility, care and fairness that we promote with our customers, is what form the foundation of the culture at Udhyam too. Each one at Udhyam is part of building this culture of trust and high ownership of Udhyam’s vision.

The HR Leader role will play a critical part in further shaping the culture at Udhyam. They will also strengthen it’s people & system capabilities to achieve the milestones we have set  ahead of us. We aim to build a happy and high performing workplace that people want to work at, in the sector.

We are proud of our diverse team & culture where people from corporates & NGOs succeed at Udhyam. We hope to grow in being more inclusive & high performing simultaneously.

Role and Responsibilities:

Build & nurture Udhyam team & culture so we can realise the Udhyam vision.
Oversee all HR requirements for about 100 people in the organisation including

• Recruitment & onboarding,
• Performance experience,
• Learning and Development,
• Employee engagement & recognition

Build & improve policies, systems & processes for each of the above areas that live our principles & enable achievement of our vision

Provides support and guidance to the HR team and managers when complex, specialized, and sensitive questions and issues arise

Partner with the leadership team to understand, build  and execute the organization’s talent strategy

Provide decision support & enable improvements through HR metrics

Ensure legal compliance in the HR domain

Manage the Payroll Processing with our payroll partner  and HR auditing

Skills, Experience & Mindsets :

• Keen on working in a purpose driven non-profit
• 15 + years of HR experience
• High degree of ownership and a bias for action with willingness to be hands on & frugal
• Ability to work with ambiguity and innovative ideas that challenge the norm
• Experience driving People Systems and processes
• People centric approach to organization building
• Ability to work with multiple teams and manage specific asks and requirements
• An independent thinker and people problems solver, able to navigate uncertainty