Director, Senior Business Partner

Role Overview

• The Director, Senior Business Partner plays a critical role in aligning organizational goals with people-centered strategies that foster an inclusive and high-performing workplace.
• Acting as a strategic advisor and thought partner to PPFA leaders, the Business Partner supports organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, and culture initiatives that reinforce PPFA’s mission, values, and equity commitments.
• This role helps identify people risks and opportunities, guides leaders in navigating change, and ensures implementation of programs and policies that strengthen team performance and employee experience.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leaders on organizational design, talent planning, and performance management.
• Lead full-cycle organizational restructures and team design efforts in partnership with leaders including needs assessment, scenario planning, role and team modeling, implementation, and transition support. Ensure solutions are strategically aligned, legally compliant, equity-informed, and effectively communicated.
• Serve as the primary investigator for employee complaints and workplace investigations from intake to resolution, advising on corrective action, ensuring a fair, compliant, and trauma-informed process that balances employee experience with organizational risk mitigation.
• Guide and implement people strategies that foster employee engagement, retention, and accountability.
• Offer policy guidance and ensure compliance, mitigating organizational risk.
• Interpret people data and trends to inform leadership decision-making.
• Identify gaps, surface insights, and drive the delivery of impactful, people-centered solutions.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of HR experience with at least 4 years operating in a strategic HRBP role or equivalent
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent work experience. MBA or a Masters in any HR related practice is a plus.
• Experience working with union-represented employees and applying collective bargaining agreements is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders in a complex, matrixed environment with a distributed workforce.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational restructuring and team design efforts from inception to implementation, including change management, and transition planning.
• Deep understanding of employment law, policy, and performance management.
• Extensive experience independently conducting sensitive employee relations investigations.
• Proven ability to navigate challenging interpersonal dynamics with professionalism and poise, particularly in high-stakes or emotionally charged situations.
• Demonstrates sound judgment in setting and holding boundaries, while influencing outcomes and maintaining collaborative relationships—even in the face of persistent pushback.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to influence across levels.
• Strong project management, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to quickly changing priorities and ambiguous situations.
• High proficiency in Google products and HRIS systems.
• Commitment to PPFA’s mission of promoting Sexual and Reproductive Health and track record of advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Benefits

• Travel: Up to 5% and/or as needed.