[Hiring] Global Chief People Officer @Verde Edge Consulting Ltd

Role Description

On behalf of our client, a Christian NGO, we are recruiting for the Global Chief People Officer. This role will lead the global people function and serve as the enterprise executive accountable for:

• Talent, leadership, culture, organizational design, and people infrastructure required to advance the client’s Christian mission at a global scale.
• Combining strategic leadership with hands-on execution across employees and contractors in multiple countries.

Qualifications

• Typically 15+ years of progressive people-leadership experience, including substantial enterprise/executive responsibility in a complex, distributed organization.
• Demonstrated success recruiting and closing senior global talent, strengthening leadership teams, building succession depth, and establishing rigorous performance accountability.
• Broad people-function experience covering talent acquisition, organizational development, employee relations, compensation, people operations, workforce planning, and HR technology/analytics.
• Meaningful experience with multi-country workforces and mixed engagement models, including employees, contractors, employers of record, and external partners.
• Experience in a global Christian/faith-based, nonprofit, fintech, financial-services, technology, regulated, or other mission-driven environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience counseling a CEO, ELT, and Board on succession, executive talent, compensation, culture, organizational design, and material people risks.

Requirements

• An advanced degree in HR, business, organizational leadership, Social Sciences, law, or a related discipline—or equivalent relevant executive experience.
• Senior HR credentials such as CHRP, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or an equivalent international qualification are advantageous.
• Demonstrated executive judgment and track record are key.

Leadership Characteristics

• Spiritually grounded, humble, servant-hearted, and discreet.
• Direct yet compassionate; fair, empathetic, and respectful.
• Low-ego, collaborative, confident, and culturally sensitive.
• Pragmatic, decisive, resourceful, and action-oriented.
• Resilient and steady under pressure, ambiguity, and change.
• Personally hands-on; comfortable building systems from a blank page.

Benefits

• Professional office or home-office environment with extensive digital collaboration and sustained screen time.
• Minimum six hours of daily overlap with US Eastern business hours; regular cross-time-zone collaboration and occasional early-morning/evening meetings.
• Domestic and international travel, sometimes on short notice, may be required.
• Requires independent judgment, careful analysis, rapid prioritization, and consequential decision-making with incomplete or changing information.
• Requires discretion and composure when handling confidential information, conflict, emotionally charged situations, and competing demands.

Application Information

If you meet the requirements and are motivated by this opportunity, apply using the link below:

Visit www.verde-edge.com to apply by 5th October 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.