Senior Human Resource Business Partner

About Imagine Worldwide

All children have immense potential, but hundreds of millions don’t have access to the learning they need. Imagine Worldwide’s mission is to empower millions of children across Sub-Saharan Africa with the literacy and numeracy skills they need to reach their full potential. We provide an innovative education technology solution and implementation model to the global literacy/numeracy learning crisis using the application and various toolkits and systems to support implementation. Nine Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) across multiple countries and settings have shown dramatic learning gains, increased school attendance, and gender parity, all for less than $7 per child per year.

Imagine Worldwide partners with governments, organizations, and communities to provide child-directed, tablet-based learning that is accessible, effective, and affordable. We are a California-based (United States) nonprofit organization operating across seven Sub-Saharan African countries.

Role Overview

The Senior HR Business Partner will serve as the primary Human Resources Business Partner across Imagine’s African country portfolios of Malawi and Tanzania, delivering end-to-end human resources leadership and support, partnering closely with Country Directors and functional leaders to enable organisational growth, workforce effectiveness, and a strong people experience.

Reporting to the Executive Head of People, the Senior HR Business Partner will operate as a strategic and operational HR Business Partner, leading HR delivery across multiple countries. The role will ensure consistent implementation of the global people strategy, creation and implementation of country people plans, compliance with local labour laws, effective talent management practices, and alignment with organisational values and performance standards.

The Senior HR Business Partner will work to provide high-quality, proactive HR partnership to country leadership teams; ensure effective execution of end-to-end HR processes across multiple countries; strengthen organisational culture, engagement, and performance across diverse, multicultural teams; and translate global People strategy into practical, locally compliant implementation.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior HR Business Partner will report to the Executive Head of People and work closely with Country Directors, functional leaders, and the broader People team. Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to the following:

Strategic HR Business Partnering

• Serve as the primary HR partner to designated country portfolios, advising leadership on workforce strategy, structure, and people-related risk;
• Translate organisational and People strategy into actionable country-level plans;
• Provide guidance on organisational design, workforce planning, reporting structures, and operating model alignment;
• Support change management initiatives and transformation efforts within country teams;
• Use HR metrics, dashboards, and workforce data to inform decision-making and drive continuous improvement;
• Escalate strategic risks and complex matters appropriately to the Executive Head of People.

Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning

• Partner with country leadership to conduct workforce planning aligned to growth projections;
• Lead and coordinate recruitment processes for country portfolios, ensuring quality, diversity, and alignment to competency frameworks;
• Support hiring managers in structured selection, interviewing, and decision-making processes;
• Oversee onboarding to ensure effective integration of new hires into the organisation and culture;
• Ensure consistent application of job architecture, grading frameworks, and role clarity standards