Director, Global Talent Development & Culture (UK & USA Remote)

Company Description

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, Ouriginal and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

Job Description

Turnitin is seeking to hire a Director, Global Talent Development & Culture to join our Global People Team, reporting to the VP, Global People Partnerships. The People Team enables Turnitin to unleash the full potential of ‘One Team’ and culture which, in turn, enables it to deliver its business strategy and purpose. 

The People Team is split into four verticals: 

•  Global People Partners
•  Centers of Excellence (COEs)
•  People Services / HR Shared Services 
•  People Strategy & Operations (PS&O) 

This is an exciting opportunity that will help shape, deliver and embed key organizational change, talent management, culture and remote workplace strategies and programs across the globe. The successful candidate will support global audiences to shape Talent Development & Culture initiatives, including Performance Management, Talent Review Process, Employee Recognition & Awards program, culture and employee engagement initiatives. This role will engage employees through various content and talent management initiatives/strategies.

What you will do:

• Lead and collaborate with other C-Level leaders and our People Teams to design, communicate, train, and implement Talent Development & Culture initiatives
• Design content and/or source external content providers/vendors where applicable
• Identify and propose new ways of operating to improve/streamline current processes through networking and best practice research
• Facilitate education and training sessions across the business
• Maintain and track success metrics in employee programs through annual employee engagement surveys
• Be a storyteller of our culture and a champion of engagement
• Creatively curate, craft & communicate messages about behaviors, stories & initiatives that demonstrate our values, our culture norm’s and that capture the essence of our culture
• Lead Culture initiatives for example: engagement activities, cultural calendar, employee recognition process and awards, and onboarding
• Partner with leadership, …