Head of People & Culture - Maternity Cover

Start date: 1st of April 2023

End date: 30st April 2024

As our Head of People & Culture will be busy with another exciting job soon, we are now looking for an experienced HR professional to take over the P&C department, while she is away.

Donkey Republic provides a platform for easy bike-rental across European cities. We offer affordable and sustainable mobility for the masses by partnering with cities to turn bikes into the hero of urban transportation and have a vision of making city life better for everyone with affordable and responsible bike-sharing.

If you think this sounds like a cool company, then read on!

At Donkey we are on a mission to attract, motivate and develop Donkeys to support building the best work culture.

We are not perfect, but we believe we have our minds and hearts at the right place and that the key to success comes from the talented people we have here at Donkey.

Therefore, we are looking for a P&C professional who can fully see themselves in what we are to accomplish within the next year.

About you

We believe that the key to have success in the role comes down to a couple of characteristics and skills:

Be structured and organised in everything you do

We are currently building up the P&C function, so this role is for someone who really enjoys organising and structuring information, tools, systems and so forth.

Is a people person and can therefore build up trust in a short amount of time

As this is a temporary position, this role is for someone who can quickly adapt to the organisation and build trust across departments and management.

Has good knowledge of common HR & P&C practices

To hit the ground running and easily pick up ongoing projects will be a great advantage. As the Head of P&C is working within a broad scope of both HR and P&C, this role is for someone who enjoys detailed oriented work while not losing sight of the overall direction of the company strategy. This also includes execution of strategic people projects.

Here's the role’s impact and how we expect you to progress:

Guiding stars for the role

• Own, execute and develop HR and P&C processes from A-Z

• Organisational and commercially supportive and driven for developing the company

• Thriving in high-paced environments and working across departments

• Ability to run multiple and complex strategic projects with multiple stakeholders

• Accountable to deliver quality of work and in execution

The right candidate gets energy from

• Engaging internal stakeholders and managers in supporting and delivering on activities across teams in relation to HR and P&C processes

• Building culture and continuing the efforts to be a people-first company Balancing multiple tasks while ensuring delivery and quality during deadlines

Responsibilities for the role

• Maintain and develop HR infrastructure processes (contract management, recruitment processes, onboarding, offboarding etc.

• Support accounting with payroll

• Own and drive the engagement tool Zoios, analysing people data and giving recommendations to exe. Management team and team managers based on analytics.

• Business leadership - sparring with leaders on the quarterly appraisal talks

• Engaged member of the work Environment Committee (miljøorganisation) to with sustainable and balanced company development

• Contribute to growing collaboration across the entire Donkey Republic team

• Contribute to the company strategy from an P&C business perspective

• General office management

Formalities

Reports to the COO

Works closely with managers for development, recruiting, job descriptions, on/off-boarding e.g.

Go-to/collaboration persons

Closest collaboration colleagues: Head of Accounting, COO and ESG Manager. Onboarding-buddy during the first 3 months: COO

Go-to decision-maker/gatekeeper: COO & CEO

Most important stakeholders: CxO’s and team managers

Within 1 month

• Meet your new colleagues and understand who is doing what

• Get comfortable with the day-to-day operations and processes of Donkey Republic

• Understand the problems Donkey Republic solves for customers and how we can continue to solve them

• Use the product as a customer

• Take over HR & P&C tasks and processes that are already in execution and run interview processes

Within 3 months

• A clear overview of your collaborators and stakeholders in the organisation Establishing great colleagueship and foundation for collaboration across teams

• Thoroughly onboarded to HR and P&C processes in Donkey Republic

• Have gotten a full overview of people operations and have started optimising processes

• Have a good collaboration with external legal assistance to support EU wide differences in employment law

Within 6 months

• You are developing and running the people and HR process for smooth collaboration across departments and swift execution in recruitments

• Assisting the organisation as business partner for HR and people oriented tasks

• Planning initiatives to act on employee satisfaction survey feedback

• Have setup solid structures and processes for continuous dialogue and development with city managers

What we offer:

• Competitive salary

• Pension scheme of 3%

• Flexibility (hybrid work opportunity)

• Great work environment, Friday breakfast, Friday beers and lots of great snacks!

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

At Donkey Republic we foster diversity and inclusion and have zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment. We do not discriminate based on gender and encourage candidates of all gender denominations to apply for our positions. Donkey Republic is an equal opportunities employer, committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a service, which is free from unfair and unlawful discrimination. Finally, don't feel discouraged about not fulfilling all requirements, you could still be the ideal candidate.

About Donkey Republic

Founded in 2014, Donkey Republic is a purpose-driven impact company active in the micro-mobility industry. Donkey Republic provides a flexible, affordable and more sustainable way of transportation to the citizens by partnering with the cities.

Donkey Republic is a data driven technology company facilitating bike sharing, and we are able to provide cities and citizens a reliable bike sharing service. Sustainably at its core integrates with the city’s public transportation system, by pursuing innovation Donkey Republic develops end-to-end products and services that solve city and riders problems. Riders are able to enjoy a more convenient and high quality ride, with our bike and ebike fleet, designed for durability and optimal maintenance through our servicing software platform. This collaborative dedicated software solution together with our bikes, seeks to improve people's health & well-being, the environment, reducing traffic congestion across cities as well as public space optimisation.

Donkey Republic is a publicly traded company listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market. The company was listed in 2021 to onboard investors and support its growth and expansion into the European Market, and to continue securing its foothold and developing its market position in the European Micro mobility space. With thousands of Donkey bikes successfully implemented, Donkey Republic aims to grow its business and fulfill its vision of making urban city life quality better through responsible bike sharing.