People Business Partner (PBP)

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

At the Catalight Foundation, we are building the future of work for nonprofits. We strive to create an engaging employee experience through an inclusive and wellbeing-driven lens, fostering a healthy and high-performing culture by supporting our team members with space to learn, grow, and do their best work. We are looking for a People Business Partner (PBP) who is ready to think big and partner with leaders and teams to build a thriving, people-first culture. You will serve as a strategic advisor and trusted coach, driving impactful performance management, leadership development, workforce planning, and employee engagement across our teams. If you are energized by creating equitable workplaces, supporting leadership growth, and ensuring every voice is heard and celebrated, this is the place for you.

Most importantly, your role will help foster an inclusive, resilient, and high-performing workplace where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued. You will be essential in people development, empowerment, and employee upskilling. You will support leaders and managers in living into and role-modeling our values while stretching towards organizational goals. You’ll drive bold, data-informed people strategies that support talent development, retention, and overall employee experience.

This is a fully remote position, with core hours on Pacific/Hawaiian time zones and occasional travel is appreciated.

Your Impact at Catalight

As a trusted and strategic partner, you’ll advise and collaborate with leaders and managers across the organization on all things related to people and culture. You’ll build strong relationships to help teams confidently navigate growth and change, role-modeling and designing experiences with our values and equity in mind. You’ll champion employee well-being by partnering with our Benefits and Total Rewards teams to support leave, accommodation, and wellness processes, while guiding leaders on effective performance management practices and coaching them to strengthen leadership skills and team dynamics. In partnership with Learning & Development (L&D), your role will be essential in people development, empowerment, and employee upskilling, guiding leaders and managers to align with our values and organizational goals. You’ll drive bold, data-informed people strategies that support talent development, retention, and employee engagement. Most importantly, you'll help foster an inclusive, resilient, and high-performing workplace where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued.

Who You Are

You are a bold and innovative thinker who wants to challenge the status quo in pursuit of meaningful continuous growth. As a natural connector, you build trust and community with ease, inspiring and influencing individuals at all levels of the organization. You are a steadfast champion of JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion), ensuring that policies, decisions, and everyday interactions are grounded in fairness, inclusion, and belonging. Centering care in your leadership approach, you advocate for well-being and bring empathy and insight to every coaching moment and partnership you cultivate.

Essential Job Functions

• Serve as an effective thought partner and trusted consultant on all things people, culture, and ecosystem.
• Embody and advocate for our values in your work, actively role-modeling our values in action.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of business goals to align people strategies like workforce planning, leadership development, and talent management.
• Proactively identify opportunities to implement innovative solutions that align business objectives with people strategy across HR functional areas.
• Build trust by addressing employee concerns with empathy, clear communication, and timely follow-through to support a positive and respectful experience.
• Keep clear, consistent documentation of employee issues and actions using our case tracking system to support fair practices.

Requirements

• Information not provided in the original description.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders and teams to build a thriving, people-first culture.
• Serve as a strategic advisor and trusted coach.
• Drive impactful performance management, leadership development, workforce planning, and employee engagement.
• Create equitable workplaces and support leadership growth.
• Ensure every voice is heard and celebrated.
• Foster an inclusive, resilient, and high-performing workplace.
• Support people development, empowerment, and employee upskilling.
• Guide leaders and managers to align with organizational values and goals.
• Drive data-informed people strategies for talent development, retention, and employee engagement.
• Advise and collaborate with leaders and managers on people and culture initiatives.
• Build strong relationships to help teams navigate growth and change.
• Champion employee well-being in partnership with Benefits and Total Rewards teams.
• Guide leaders on effective performance management and coaching.
• Partner with L&D on people development and employee upskilling.

Application Instructions

• Information not provided in the original description.

Company Information

Company: Catalight Foundation Mission: Building the future of work for nonprofits.