Job Description

The Scope

We are looking for an engaged People Engagement Lead who brings solid expertise and a passion for FSC’s mission, to work with us in a multinational environment.

The People Engagement Lead is a key architect of organisational engagement, resilience, culture, and change at FSC. This role goes beyond traditional HR or internal communications: it is about shaping how people experience FSC, how organisational resilience is strengthened, and how insight is translated into meaningful, sustainable action.

As a core member of the People & Culture team, you will play a crucial role in enabling FSC’s success by combining change leadership, employee engagement, and resilience-focused people insights. You will design and implement engagement strategies grounded in FSC’s values, supporting adaptability, wellbeing, and sustained performance across the organisation.

Main Roles & Responsibilities

Change Leadership & Engagement Strategy

• Lead and implement people engagement and change strategies aligned with FSC’s mission, values, and strategic priorities.
• Act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, enabling change that builds resilience, ownership, and alignment.
• Build cross‑functional partnerships to champion engagement, adaptability, and shared accountability for change.

Culture Activation & Values Integration

• Embed FSC’s values into everyday behaviours, decision‑making, and ways of working.
• Design and facilitate engagement initiatives that strengthen trust, alignment, and organisational resilience.
• Enable leaders to role‑model inclusive, empowering, and adaptive leadership behaviours.

Employee Engagement, Experience & Resilience Measurement

• Design and evolve FSC’s engagement and resilience measurement framework, combining quantitative and qualitative insights.
• Translate engagement, wellbeing, and resilience data into clear, actionable organisational priorities.
• Partner with leaders to strengthen psychological safety, adaptability, and sustainable workload practices.

Organisational Resilience & Insight Integration

• Integrate engagement, wellbeing, retention, learning, and performance data to assess organisational resilience.
• Identify trends and signals related to workforce sustainability, risk, and change readiness.
• Provide clear insights, narratives, and tracking to support continuous improvement and informed decision‑making.

Your profile

• Significant experience in employee engagement, organisational development, change leadership, organisational health, resilience, or related roles — ideally in complex, multicultural, mission-driven environments.
• Proven experience translating engagement or resilience insights into sustainable organisational actions.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to connect quantitative and qualitative insights into clear recommendations.
• Experience supporting organisations through change while strengthening wellbeing and adaptability.
• Excellent facilitation, influencing, and communication skills.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on mindset and strong ownership.
• Passion for organisational culture, values-based leadership, and sustainable performance.

Why us?

• A highly visible and influential role shaping engagement and organisational resilience at FSC.
• The opportunity to strengthen how culture, wellbeing, and adaptability drive FSC.org’s long-term success.
• A collaborative, values-driven environment where People & Culture is a strategic partner.
• Opportunities for professional growth and global collaboration.
• Benefit from cross-cultural collaboration and networking opportunities by being part of FSC global community of 400+ forest stewards.
• Benefit from work-life balance with our hybrid working structure.
• 30 vacation days yearly.
• Regional transportation ticket.
• Celebrate together festivals from different cultures.

The Fine Print

• Location: Bonn, Germany.
• Working Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week.
• Duration of Employment: Temporary contract - 2 years (extension possible, subject to satisfactory performance).
• Starting Date: As soon as possible.

How to Apply
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• Please apply via our website by submitting your CV in English.
• Please do not send any photos of yourself.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
  
  

For FSC, inclusiveness and diversity are important values. As such, we welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and are entirely committed to consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age and disability.

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We are looking forward to your application!