Senior Director of People & Talent

Please cite PCDN as the source of the posting in your application.

About Resetting the Table

Resetting the Table (RTT) equips leaders and communities from every corner of American life to counter toxic polarization and build a shared society and democracy. Through rigorous training, courageous dialogue, and empathy-generating media content, we enable Americans to transform differences into an engine of strengthened relationship, trust, and problem-solving in our country and communities. RTT’s trainings and forums have directly reached more than 90,000 participants across the U.S., many of them influential faith leaders, TV writers, higher education administrators, and other norm-shapers positioned to make far-reaching culture change and indirectly impact millions more. Informed by combined expertise in the fields of mediation, conflict transformation, trauma therapy, and social research, our methodology for building “healthy conflict” in communities is nationally recognized and highly sought after.

It is an amazing time to join and help build RTT’s world-class team. In the past year, our team has grown by 40% while maintaining our mission-driven workplace dedicated to excellence, authentic collegial care, and investment in the growth of each team member. You will get to collaborate with some of the most thoughtful, caring people dedicated to timely, impactful work.

The Opportunity

The Senior Director of People and Talent will be a key leader at Resetting the Table, working to build our outstanding team and steward our culture. You will recruit and develop talent; guide employee performance and learning; strengthen team-building; and orchestrate cross-departmental collaboration across a growing organization with nationwide impact. You will help lead a remote-first organization committed to fostering a workplace environment that models our work in the world: welcoming, bold, collaborative, supportive, and creating the conditions to bring out people’s best contributions.

What You’ll Do

Recruitment, Talent Development, and Performance Management

• Support the full employee lifecycle, including recruiting top talent; ensuring an excellent candidate experience; selecting and developing employees; building skills and capabilities; cultivating career and leadership growth; and managing performance.

• Partner with senior leadership to identify staffing needs and develop plans around organizational structure and key roles to support ambitious and sustainable growth.

• Serve as lead in drafting job descriptions for staff and contractors, overseeing interview processes, and ensuring RTT’s values and culture are represented in candidate interactions and onboarding.

• Work with managers to set clear performance expectations and goals for employees, providing support to help them succeed; coach individuals working on growth edges.

• Facilitate and enhance professional development opportunities for staff members, including guidance for new supervisors to develop management and leadership skills.

• Work closely with Co-CEOs as a liaison to the Board, including onboarding new Board members, fostering opportunities for Board–staff engagement, and organizing Board meetings and communications to equip Board members to serve.

• Work with senior leadership to drive compensation and promotion practices to ensure equity and transparency.

• Build relationships to expand the organization’s talent pipeline with individuals who share our commitments, mission, and values.

Culture-Building and Employee Experience

• Partner with senior leadership to sustain and develop a thriving organizational culture built on collaboration, care, open communication, and commitment to excellence, driving towards impact through positive teamwork and learning.

• Serve as lead on initiatives to nurture employee well-being, belonging, recognition, commitment, and engagement.

• Serve as a thought partner, resource, coach, and advisor to managers and staff at all levels in developing their professional capacities, including senior leaders.

• Model effective interpersonal and listening skills to develop strong relationships with Board and staff across RTT’s team.

• Serve as a key lead in planning and development of staff meetings, staff retreats, Board meetings, and other initiatives that lift the organization’s culture, values, and teamwork.

Strategic Leadership

• Design and implement initiatives that strengthen alignment, accountability, and collaboration across RTT’s growing team, workstreams, and departments to strengthen impact and effectiveness.

Potential Additional Leadership

• Manage employees and/or consultants in the department of the Co-CEO (in communications, development, planning, evaluation, operations, etc.).

• Support internal communications.

• Oversee projects that do not neatly fit within the organizational chart or that fall between departments or leadership areas of responsibility.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of senior leadership and supervisory experience, ideally in a non-profit environment.
• 5+ years of experience in talent development, organizational culture, or a related field.
• Track record of recruiting talent and expertise in leadership development, coaching, teamwork, and growth practices.
• Ability to shift between strategic big picture thinking and hands-on, nuts-and-bolts system-building and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to support teams with a mix of backgrounds, identities, and viewpoints.
• Experience working in bridge-building or conflict resolution fields preferred.
• Experience managing end-to-end hiring of top talent preferred.

Who You Are

Seasoned supervisor & facilitator. You have a proven ability to lead and inspire a talented and diverse team towards ambitious goals. You have demonstrated facilitation capability and an ability to bring people together across lines of difference in ways that strengthen connection, collaboration, and trust. Your past supervisees and teams see you as a leader who provides the scaffolding to set people up for success and bring out the best in people. You are a natural coach and mentor who develops others and pushes them to grow.

Systems orchestrator. You have a track record of translating visions and strategies into reality through thoughtful investments in people, processes, and systems in growing organizations. You bring aptitude for both 360-degree insight and detail-oriented plans of action — seeing how all the roles and puzzle pieces fit together, identifying gaps and opportunities, optimizing roles, and maximizing outcomes. You know how to support multiple levels of an organization: individuals, teams, leadership, and cross-departmental collaboration. You are a project planner who consistently looks ahead and anticipates needs before they arise. You can manage a diverse set of team needs and are able to step outside your job description or comfort zone to help the team reach its goals.

Relational leader. You have finely tuned people and empathic skills and have a high capacity to listen and understand others. You nurture relationships and can earn trust from, connect to, and work well with everyone at all levels. You balance clear expectations with care for individuals’ respective needs. You communicate proactively and productively and are known for your calm and integrity in handling sensitive situations.

How to Apply

We know there are great candidates who won’t check all of these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If this job excites you and aligns with your values and aspirations, we strongly encourage you to apply and tell us about yourself.

We will review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Please submit a resume and a cover letter (citing PCDN as the source of the posting) explaining your interest in the position to SeniorDirectorPeople@resettingthetable.org with “Senior Director of People and Talent Application – YOUR NAME” in the subject line.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for the Senior Director of People and Talent is $115,000–$145,000, commensurate with experience. This is a full-time position with benefits. Typical office hours are 9 am-5 pm, with some obligations taking place in the evenings and on weekends.

Benefits package includes:

• Health benefits, life insurance, and short/long-term disability

• Generous package of vacation, sick, and personal days, along with paid time off for federal and religious holidays each year

• Paid parental leave

• Reimbursement for home office expenses of up to $1,000

• 403(b) plan with 3% employer contribution

• A highly collaborative, caring team

At Resetting the Table, we celebrate differences of background, identity, and viewpoint for the benefit of our employees, work, and community. RTT is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, religion, ideology, national origin, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and organizational need.