The Role
Coordinate and execute core people operations across the staff lifecycle including onboarding, offboarding, payroll (multi-country), benefits, and documentation. Maintain HRIS, ATS, knowledge and project tools, ensure data integrity, support recruitment logistics and interview coordination, respond to staff inquiries, and improve processes and documentation to increase operational consistency and responsiveness across a globally distributed team.
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Position overview
We are looking for a highly organised, reliable, and proactive People Operations generalist to strengthen the operational foundation of our global People & Culture Team.
We are looking for a highly organised, reliable, and proactive People Operations generalist to strengthen the operational foundation of our global People & Culture Team.
This role is primarily focused on the coordination, administration, and execution of core People & Culture processes. The successful candidate will play an important role in ensuring that our people systems, workflows, documentation, and staff lifecycle processes run smoothly, consistently, and efficiently. This role requires experience navigating operational complexity within a fast-paced, globally distributed, and highly collaborative environment.
This is an ideal role for someone who enjoys operational excellence, creating clarity, improving processes, and helping teams function effectively behind the scenes. The role will be housed within the People & Culture Team to increase operational capacity and work closely with the broader Operations department to support cross collaboration across the department.
Responsibilities
Staff Lifecycle Operations
- Coordinate and execute core People & Culture processes across onboarding, offboarding, contract changes, leave administration, payroll in 4 countries, and benefits administration across our global team
- Prepare, track, and maintain staff documentation and records
- Ensure accurate staff data and strong data integrity across People & Culture systems
- Monitor recurring operational processes, deadlines, approvals, and follow-up actions
- Support staff transitions and help ensure a smooth and consistent experience throughout the staff lifecycle
Systems, Documentation & Process Management
- Manage and support core People & Culture systems and tools, including HRIS (Humaans), ATS (Pinpoint), Knowledge Management System (Notion), Project Management Tool (Asana), Google Workspace, and Slack
- Maintain People & Culture documentation, templates, process guides, and operational records
- Support reporting, audits, data tracking, and operational analytics
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, streamline workflows, and increase operational efficiency
- Support the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of People & Culture policies, procedures, and internal systems
Recruitment Operations & Coordination
- Support the coordination of recruitment logistics across staff and consultant hiring processes
- Support interview scheduling and coordination across multiple stakeholders and time zones
- Participate in interviews and support candidate assessment processes in partnership with People & Culture Team and hiring teams
- Partner with People & Culture Team and hiring teams to ensure a smooth and positive candidate experience
Cross-Functional Coordination & Staff Support
- Serve as a reliable operational point of contact for staff questions and process guidance
- Coordinate day-to-day People & Culture operations across multiple stakeholders, systems, and time zones
- Coordinate internal communications, process updates, and operational follow-through
- Support cross-functional projects and initiatives requiring People & Culture operational coordination, specifically supporting the coordination between Finance, Compliance and the People & Culture team
- Help ensure operational consistency, responsiveness, and effective collaboration across People & Culture workflows
Required Experience
- Experience in People Operations, HR administration, operations coordination, or related fields
- Strong experience managing administrative processes with high attention to detail
- Experience working in remote, international, or fast-paced environments
- Experience handling sensitive and confidential information responsibly
Skills & Qualities
- Exceptionally organised with strong follow-through and reliability
- Strong attention to detail and process discipline
- Clear and professional written communication skills
- Strong coordination and task management abilities
- Calm, responsive, and solutions-oriented under pressure
- Comfortable managing multiple workflows simultaneously
- Strong systems mindset and process improvement orientation
- Collaborative, low-ego, and highly dependable
- Able to work independently and proactively manage priorities
Strong Plus
- Experience using HRIS or people systems
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams
- Experience improving or documenting operational workflows
- Familiarity with employment administration across multiple jurisdictions
What Success Looks Like in This Role
Within the first 6-12 months, this person will:
- Partner on all payroll and employer compliance requirements, processes, and procedures
- Strengthen operational consistency across the People & Culture Team
- Manage and maintain our general inbox and staff service function, including via Notion, email, and Humaans
- Improve process coordination, follow-through, and documentation quality
- Increase reliability and responsiveness across staff lifecycle processes
- Become a trusted and dependable operational anchor for People & Culture processes
Why This Role Matters
As a globally distributed organisation, strong operations and coordination are essential to helping our teams function effectively and sustainably. This role will help ensure that the People & Culture Team operates with clarity, consistency, responsiveness, and care - creating the operational foundation that enables the broader team to focus on higher-level strategic and organisational support work.
Location
Avaaz is a global organization, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, the candidate would ideally be based in the Americas West time zones.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary for this role is based on location and experience. Candidates will be provided with an accurate range in local currency.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary for this role is based on location and experience. Candidates will be provided with an accurate range in local currency.
- South & Central Americas: $63,000 - 69,000 USD equivalent
- Greater US & Canada: $71,000 - 78,000 USD equivalent
- San Francisco/LA, USA: $79,000 - 87,000 USD equivalent
The development of our staff is paramount. To support this, we include these benefits:
- 5 weeks paid vacation per year
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Up to 3,000 USD for training and development per year
- Up to 1,500 USD for language development per year
- Workspace support, including reimbursement for home office or co-working expense
Application Timeline
We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and encourage all candidates to submit applications as soon as possible. Due to the expected high volume of applications, only candidates whose experience closely matches the requirements of the position will be contacted.
About
Avaaz is an international campaigning and advocacy organization that provides its global membership of almost 70 million people with opportunities to make our world a better place.We’re one of the world’s largest online global campaigning movements, with people from every corner in the world taking action to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want. This includes protecting human rights worldwide, supporting indigenous struggles, saving our planet from climate change and other threats, and fighting to stop disinformation and other cyber threats from undermining our democracies. Our model enables people to channel their voices into a powerful collective force at tipping point moments to impact the pressing global challenges of our time, from climate and ecological collapse to human rights abuses and the dismantling of democracy. Avaaz is funded through small donations from individual Avaaz members, no big money from governments or corporations. This keeps us independent and allows us to keep a laser focus on doing what the world needs.
Skills Required
- Experience in People Operations, HR administration, operations coordination, or related fields
- Strong experience managing administrative processes with high attention to detail
- Experience working in remote, international, or fast-paced environments
- Experience handling sensitive and confidential information responsibly
- Strong written communication skills and ability to coordinate across stakeholders
- Exceptionally organised with strong follow-through and reliability
- Experience using HRIS or people systems (e.g., Humaans) or ATS (e.g., Pinpoint)
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams and cross-timezone coordination
- Experience improving or documenting operational workflows and process guides
- Familiarity with employment administration across multiple jurisdictions
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The Company
What We Do
Avaaz is a US-based nonprofit organization and global web movement launched in 2007. Its mission is to bring people-powered politics to decision-making worldwide, empowering millions to take action on pressing global, regional, and national issues. They focus on closing the gap between the current world and the one people want, tackling critical issues such as climate change, human rights, animal rights, corruption, poverty, and conflict.
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