People and Culture (Senior to Manager)

Overview

People and Culture (Senior to Manager) Jobs in Bangkok Metropolitan Area at Teach for Thailand

Title: People and Culture (Senior to Manager)

Company: Teach for Thailand

Location: Bangkok Metropolitan Area

Teach for Thailand is a nonprofit organization committed to more equitable and just education opportunities for children in Thailand. We want to better Thai education, one classroom at a time. And we do this by partnering with communities to develop a network of leaders through our Fellowship Program.

What We Do:

We develop leaders to improve educational opportunities for children in Thailand through our 2-year Fellowship Program.

In the Fellowship Program, we recruit, develop, and place people from all backgrounds to teach in underserved schools for two years. During this time, Fellows learn through firsthand experience and grow their leadership skills by collaborating with stakeholders in schools and communities.

After their experience, graduates of the Program are empowered to drive positive changes in Thai education and beyond. Whether they carry on as teachers, become policymakers, start their own social enterprises, or work in the public or private sector, they are able to affect change in different ways.

The Role: People and Culture (Senior Associate to Manager)

To achieve our mission, we are looking to recruit a People and Culture (Senior Associate to Manager) who will be responsible for ensuring Teach for Thailand attracts, develops, and retains top talent; builds staff engagement and an organizational culture focused on impact; and shapes its overall strategy for staff development. You will maintain high standards across these areas so that we can create a high-performing team to drive towards the organization’s mission. This is a great opportunity for an exceptional leader who has strong general management and human resources experience, is detail-oriented and organized, possesses strong strategic thinking skills, and has the ability to build authentic relationships across different groups of people.

The People and Culture (Senior Associate to Manager) will report directly to the Head of Shared Services. Your focus will be a mix of high-level strategy and hands-on people operations for around 20 employees working in the organization. You'll be in charge of driving our people operations – generating and executing solutions to improve our existing people processes, keeping in mind the organization's ambition to scale in the coming years. You will partner closely with our Function Leads to align human resources practices across the organization, ensuring that everyone internalizes Teach for Thailand’s human resources philosophy as the organization scales up.

Expected Key Results:

1. As an organization that is driven towards results and strives towards the impact of education equity for all children in Thailand, we are committed to ensure all staff perform at the highest level. Hence the success of this role would be the delivery of the below outcomes:
2. Reduce average time-to-hire to 60 days and build a strong, proactive talent pipeline to ensure the right people are hired efficiently and are ready to meet both current and future organizational needs.
3. Upskill internal talent through Individual Development Plans (IDPs), implement a succession plan, and provide targeted training and support for people managers to ensure future leadership readiness and enable effective role scaling across the organization.
4. Strengthen the Human Resource Business Partnership model to align HR strategies with organizational goals by deeply understanding each function’s needs and priorities, and delivering tailored talent management solutions—including recruitment, development, engagement, and retention—to drive organizational effectiveness.
5. Drive improvement in annual employee engagement survey scores to achieve the staff retention target of the organization to ensure minimal human capital disruption as we embark on our goals

Roles and Responsibilities:

People Strategy and Management

• Own and drive staff recruitment, engagement, retention, and performance management strategies and detailed execution plans so as to ensure the HR function achieves its goals and key results.
• Plan effectively for future organizational growth in terms of human resources, including developing organizational headcount and position forecasts and updating position descriptions and roles and responsibilities.
• Drive increased staff engagement for the organization by using existing tools to assess and improve organizational culture.

Talent Recruitment and Selection

• Fill job openings by executing all processes related to talent attraction and selection, and continually optimizing the processes and systems to ensure that Teach for Thailand has good hires with the right experience,
• Oversee all aspects of Teach for Thailand’s staff recruitment and come up with creative sourcing strategies to attract the right talent in a very competitive market.
• Manage and continually improve staff recruitment and selection process and systems for Teach for Thailand to ensure we have a talented workforce.
• Design and implement onboarding programs, schedule, conduct orientation and prepare devices/tools to immerse new hires in our mission and culture as well as prepare them for success.

Employee Engagement and Employment Operations

• Manage and continuously improve systems for annual performance reviews and staff compensation and benefits; conduct an annual compensation analysis and position/title evaluation.
• Ensure Teach for Thailand HR practices align with Thai labor laws.
• Conduct regular surveys to understand and respond to the needs of our diverse team and recommend and implement support to improve the well-being of our team members.
• Organize, participate in events or activities that foster TFT culture so that staff have an inspiring, fulfilling and sustainable experience that leads to high engagement and performance

Performance Management

• Partner with and coach Senior Leadership Team and all functions to effectively use Teach for Thailand’s performance management system to ensure staff development within the organization.
• Collaborate with managers to ensure effective performance management processes (OKRs writing and grading, Check-In, Performance Review, Individual Development, etc.),
• Manage and continuously improve our employee onboarding processes.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of progressive professional experience, with a strong track record of leading HR or People & Culture all functions, managing cross-functional teams, and driving talent strategy.
• Demonstrated success in talent acquisition, talent development, and succession planning.
• Experience working in high-growth, mission-driven, or fast-paced organizations, with the ability to navigate change, prioritize strategically, and manage competing demands.
• Proven ability to act as a strategic HR business partner, translating organizational and functional needs into impactful talent management solutions.
• Strong skills in employee engagement, performance management, and people analytics, with the ability to design and implement data-driven initiatives.
• Fluency in Thai and English, both spoken and written, is required.

Skills, Knowledge, and Mindset

• A deep commitment to educational equity – the belief that all children can succeed regardless of their background.
• Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity – ability to navigate uncertainty and work effectively with limited resources and direction, including stepping outside formal responsibilities to support broader organizational goals.
• A learning orientation – openness to feedback, commitment to personal growth, and ability to learn quickly.
• Data-driven decision making – skilled in leveraging HR metrics, analytics, and survey data to design, implement, and evaluate talent initiatives that drive organizational performance.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills – able to build authentic relationships and communicate clearly with diverse stakeholders to achieve high-quality outcomes.
• Strategic business partnering and influencing skills – understands the work of program teams and partners with senior leaders to co-create and drive impactful people and culture strategies.
• Target-driven with strong organizational skills – able to manage multiple complex projects independently, delivering results with attention to detail and follow-through.
• High levels of integrity and accountability – consistently follows through on commitments and models ethical leadership.
• Embodiment of Teach for Thailand’s core values – Mission Comes First, Grow Together, Sense of Possibility, Act Like an Owner.

Compensation and Benefits

• We may be a non-profit, but we reward our talented team well! We offer:
• Competitive salary in the local non-profit sector. We benchmark our salaries against similar organizations..
• 15 days paid time off plus public holidays (we follow the Government calendar) – Your well-being is a priority.
• An organization with exceptional teams to support and develop you to the next level.
• The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work in a high-impact organization.

To Apply:

To join us as a team member, apart from being well qualified, you need to believe as strongly as we do in our mission and vision to ensure the success of our organization.

Please send your resume and a one-page cover letter to [email protected] with the subject line of the position you are applying for. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.