Head of People

7 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Wise Pelican Full time

We are a geographically distributed company with team members all over the world including The United States, South Africa, the Philippines, Argentina, Greece, and New Zealand.

We are searching for someone to help us manage the people component of our business. We currently have around 25 team members and are growing quickly and needing to find, onboard, and retain new team members. You will also be responsible for dismissing underperforming team members when unfortunately necessary.

This role will be responsible for:

- Drafting and posting openings on job sites including Indeed, onlinejobs.ph, and Upwork
- Working with other managers to establish KPIs
- Working with other mangers to report on KPIs and provide regular performance evaluations
- Provided formal warnings, draft performance improvement plans, and dismiss team members that are underperforming when needed
- Draft and maintain policy and benefits manuals
- Track paid time off, sick time, and holiday time
- Maintain team member roster and pay schedule
- Assist with onboarding and offboarding team members
- Create training manuals, videos, and courses
- Promote company values and foster a collaborative and positive environment
- Evaluate pay and overall benefits and compensation packages around the world
- Other responsibilities as necessary

You must:

- Be a self starter that can work remotely without close supervision. This is a full-time and role and you will be expected to be full-time.
- Be ready to be a fast mover as we’re looking to you to help us foster our fast-paced scale-up culture
- Be incredibly technologically proficient. We are all about using systems

This role is work from home but will be full-time and we are an incredibly fast-moving organization.

You will be posting job openings from day 1.

Pay: R700 000,00 - R1 000 000,00 per year

Application Question(s):

- What's your favorite type of task to perform?
- What's your least favorite type of task to perform?
- Please attached a no more than 2 minute video about why you'd be perfect for this role.

**Experience**:

- Human Resources: 3 years (required)


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