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Director, Human Resources

London, United Kingdom

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ADF International is a faith-based legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people. Please visit our career site to view our Statement of Faith and Doctrinal Distinctives.

Location: London, England

Team Overview:

As the Director, Human Resources, you are a vital part of ADF International’s Senior Leadership Team. Based in London and reporting to the Vice President of Human Resources at ADF, you will serve as the primary architect of all people strategies, policies, and programs across the organization. This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role responsible for building and stewarding a high-performing, values-aligned workforce capable of fulfilling ADF International’s global mission. The role is ideally suited for a seasoned HR professional who understands the unique culture and operational context of a mission-driven, international organization and who is passionate about empowering people to do their best work in service of a larger cause.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic HR Leadership

  • Partner with the VP of Human Resources to develop and execute a shared services people strategy aligned with ADFI's mission, values, and long-term goals
  • Drive organizational design and workforce planning across global offices

Team Leadership & Supervision

  • Lead and develop a small HR team (HR Manager & HR Coordinator) by building a collaborative and high-performing culture
  • Set objectives and performance expectations for direct reports through regular one-to-ones and formal reviews, supporting their growth and career progression
  • Allocate work for appropriate coverage, model ADFI's values, and act as the escalation point for complex or sensitive HR matters 

Employee Relations & Culture

  • Serve as the primary contact for employee relations, giving fair, consistent, legally compliant guidance and handling sensitive matters with discretion and pastoral care
  • Champion a mission-rooted culture and run programs supporting wellbeing, resilience, and work-life integration across a globally dispersed team

Performance & Development

  • Collaborate with Talent Development leaders to manage a performance framework that drives excellence, accountability, and growth
  • Identify learning needs and partner with managers on training, succession planning, and retention of high-potential staff

Collaborate with Centers of Excellence

  • Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and Total Rewards Center of Excellence teams
  • Maintain HR records and HRIS, and prepare reporting and analytics on headcount, turnover, engagement, and other key metrics

International HR Coordination

  • Provide HR support and policy guidance across international offices, adapting global frameworks to local legal and cultural contexts
  • Serve as lead resource on international HR projects and Initiatives

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Fluent in English
  • Live and work in London, UK, along with international travel up to 10% annually
  • BA/BSc in Human Resources Management or a related field
  • 7+ years of progressive HR experience, along with 3+ years in a leadership role
  • Demonstrated experience operating as a strategic HR business partner to senior leadership in a complex, multi-site organization
  • Experience with UK employment law
  • Experience in designing and implementing HR strategies, policies, and culture initiatives
  • Experience managing employee relations, including complex and sensitive cases, with professionalism and fairness

Preferred Qualifications:

  • CIPD Level 7 qualification (or equivalent)
  • Experience with European and international employment frameworks

Valid work permit for the UK or UK citizenship required.

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ADF International is a religious organisation. As such, and as a condition of employment, ADF International employees are required to profess for themselves ADF’s Statement of Faith and Doctrinal Distinctives, and employees must further confirm they do not hold beliefs that are in conflict with the Statement of Faith and Doctrinal Distinctives, both of which are available here.

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Statement of Faith

Based on our adherence to the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess with the Christian Church throughout time and around the world the faith expressed in the Apostles’ Creed:

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.

Doctrinal Distinctives

Also, based on this confession, we are committed to honoring God by obeying the two Greatest Commandments, loving God and loving neighbor, and based on that commitment and derived from the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God in Scripture, we profess the following as necessary for living the gospel:

  • We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that the Lordship of Christ requires us as disciples to seek to conform our actions, thoughts, and desires in obedience to Him.
  • We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
  • We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.
  • We believe God endows all human life with inherent dignity, and it must be respected and protected from conception to natural death.
  • We believe that God has endowed all humans with the natural, and inalienable right of religious freedom to believe, pursue truth, and live within ordered liberty such that no civil government may justly infringe upon it.
  • We believe that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, calls all of us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him, knowing that He promises us abundant and eternal life.
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