Leadership role
VP of Human Resources
Leads a nonprofit's people function, from hiring and pay to benefits, policy and employee relations.
Reporting and scope
Reports to the Executive Director / CEO, COO or Chief Human Resources officer. Authority covers people practices across the organization.
Core responsibilities
- Leads recruiting, compensation, benefits and employee relations
- Maintains HR policies and employment law compliance
- Supports the board committee that reviews executive pay
- Oversees payroll and HR systems with finance
- Manages labor relations where staff are unionized
- Advises managers on performance and staff retention
How it differs
The Chief Human Resources role is the C-level HR executive; this VP may hold that job under a different title, so match on scope. Director of HR runs the function at a lower level or in smaller organizations.
By organization size
Below roughly 200 staff the top HR job is usually a director. In large health, education and human services organizations the VP leads specialists in comp, benefits and talent.
Filings from the last five years mapped to this role commonly report titles such as: VP of Human Resources; VP Human Resources; VP, Human Resources; VP of HR; Vice President of Human Resources; VP HR