Job Summary

We're looking for an experienced and people-focused Global Culture Advisor to take on a new global role at WRI. As Global Culture Advisor, you'll be part of our Centre of Excellence and help shape how we support, grow, and engage our people across the world. Reporting to the Global Director Culture & DEI, you'll work closely with HR teams across all country/regional offices (Africa, Brazil, China, Colombia, Europe, India, Indonesia, Mexico, US) as well as with our global HR COEs. Your work will help WRI become the best-run NGO in the world not just for operational excellence, but to ensure every employee has a great experience and can do their best work in service of our mission.

This is a unique chance to build something new and meaningful. You'll design and deliver strategies for building a healthy organizational culture, and improving wellbeing making sure they're inclusive, impactful, and relevant across regions. You'll also help build People team capacity globally, creating more consistency and connection across our network.

What you'll do

Engagement

- Partner with Country HR teams and Country Directors to ensure a globally aligned yet locally relevant approach to culture implementation.
- Facilitate organization-wide dialogues and forums to deepen understanding and shared ownership of WRI's values and behaviors.
- Support design and delivery of leadership engagement approaches that enable leaders to lead on, connect with, adopt, and demonstrate organizational values
- Work closely with HR and senior leaders to support them to lead out on our culture work, embedding culture through championing culture work, leadership behaviors, decision-making, and day-to-day practices.
- Lead the Global Culture Ambassadors program, with representatives from each country and region, enabling local ownership, feedback, and implementation.
- Support wellbeing initiatives across the organization.




- Partner with external consultants for short- and medium-term assignments to support culture diagnostics, design, and analysis.

Delivery

- Support implementation of the global culture roadmap and annual priorities to help establish the culture function, defining how culture work unfolds and matures over the coming years.
- Coordinate closely with HR Center of Excellence to ensure values and behaviors are embedded into:
- Induction and onboarding
- Learning and leadership development
- Performance management
- Promotions and career pathways
- Our Safe, Equitable, Inclusive Workplace (SEIW) policy and process
- HR policies, processes, and people practices

- Develop practical tools, guidance, and resources to support consistent implementation of culture initiatives across global network such as leading the implementation and ongoing use of a Culture Barometer to identify strengths, gaps, and areas requiring focused intervention.
- Ensure mechanisms are in place to monitor and sustain progress against culture priorities and organizational maturity.
- Perform other tasks as assigned by the Global Director Culture & DEI and People Team leadership.

Strategy

- Work alongside the Global Director Culture & DEI and People Team leadership to contribute to a multi-year culture strategy and roadmap
- Define and clearly articulate what a healthy workplace culture looks like, explain why it matters to organizational success, and outline how we evaluate and track it using our Culture Barometer.





What Will You Need

Qualifications

- A degree in Human Resources/ Organizational Development/ Psychology/ Social Sciences/ Management, or related fields.

Experience

- 6-8 years of relevant experience in culture transformation, organizational development, change management, or related fields.
- Experience working in complex, high-matrixed multi-country organizations
- Experience implementing DEI and culture in a global organization across multiple countries
- Experience partnering wtih multiple external and internal partners and working with cross cultural complexities
- Experience in working with senior leadership teams
- Experience developing, running surveys, capturing data and insights

Knowledge & Skills

- Demonstrated experience embedding organizational values and behaviors into systems, processes, and leadership practices
- A passion for culture work, with the ability to build a credible profile across the organization, spanning cultural differences and understanding local contexts
- High level of emotional intelligence and cultural sensitivity
- Experience designing and using organizational diagnostics, surveys, or culture measurement tools
- Experience working with external consultants and translating insights into practical actions
- Strong facilitation, project management and professional-quality writing skills
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams, cultures, and geographies
- Willingness to travel based on program and organizational needs
- Fluency in English is required; proficiency in other languages is desirable

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📌 Global Culture Advisor (New Delhi)
🏢 World Resources Institute (WRI)
📍 New Delhi