About AVPN
AVPN is a unique funders network committed to building a vibrant and high-impact social investment community across Asia. AVPN's mission is to catalyse the movement toward a more strategic, collaborative, and outcome-focused approach to social investing, ensuring that resources are deployed as effectively as possible to address key social challenges facing Asia today and in the future.
About the Role
This is a strategic-doer role that balances thinking, designing, influencing, and hands-on execution, aligned with AVPN's scale, pace, and growth aspirations. The HR Manager South East Asia role offers a unique opportunity for a People & Culture professional who wants to build, shape, and strengthen an organization at a pivotal stage of growth. Rather than simply maintaining existing systems, this role focuses on creating, institutionalizing, and elevating HR practices.
You will lead and enable the full HR ecosystem end-to-end - spanning recruitment, talent and leadership development, performance, culture, total rewards, engagement, and future workforce readiness. This is a hands-on individual contributor role where you will design strategy and directly execute critical initiatives, build scalable systems, solve real organizational challenges, and experience visible impact across teams.
The role provides meaningful ownership, visibility, and influence, working closely with senior leadership while engaging closely with employees across levels. You will gain regional exposure, strengthen leadership capability, build a culture of trust and belonging, and contribute to positive social impact across Asia. Above all, joining AVPN means contributing to purposeful work while helping build a people-first organization.
Key Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition & Onboarding
- Lead end-to-end hiring including global recruitment
- Ensure strong candidate experience and efficient hiring cycles
- Oversee competency-based job mapping, documentation, and induction readiness
Employee Experience, Engagement & Culture
- Drive engagement, belongingness, DEIB and hybrid work practices
- Lead engagement calendar, pulse checks and annual surveys
- Strengthen trust, collaboration and open communication culture
- Manage grievances, policies, handbooks and compliance governance
- Lead exits, alumni engagement and retention initiatives
Performance, Learning & Talent Development
- Lead performance management including scorecards and review cadence
- Manage talent reviews, succession planning and HiPo programs
- Drive learning strategy, TNI, leadership development and 360 feedback
Rewards, Analytics & HR Governance
- Manage HR budget, payroll inputs, and compliance oversight
- Lead compensation philosophy, benchmarking and rewards framework
- Build people analytics dashboards to inform leadership decisions
Organization & Workforce Strategy
- Execute agile structures, shared talent pool and internal mobility
- Drive role optimization and workforce efficiencies
Culture & Employer Brand
- Define and embed EVP and cultural narrative
- Strengthen values, belonging, trust and collaboration globally
Key Deliverables
- Strong hiring outcomes and onboarding quality
- Improved engagement, belonging and retention
- Robust succession pipeline and leadership capability
- Mature performance management adoption and performance discipline
- Strong employer value proposition presence and people culture strength
- Workforce optimization and organizational agility
- High compliance, governance and HR operational excellence
Requirements
- Ideally 79 years of progressive HR experience or equivalent exposure in relevant HR leadership responsibilities; regional or multi-country exposure is preferred.
- Proven experience in managing People & Culture initiatives with measurable impact
- Strong expertise across Talent Management, Performance, Learning & Engagement
- Experience operating in hybrid, fast-growing, and globally distributed environments
- Demonstrated ability to work in a contemporary, innovative, and creative manner, blending traditional HR discipline with modern, new-age practices and people solutions
Leadership Attributes
- Strategic thinker with strong execution orientation
- Empathetic, credible, trusted people leader
- Hands-on, individual contributor mindset with leadership influence
- Strong communicator and culture champion
- Data-driven, insight-led decision maker
Reporting structure
- Position will report to the CHRO
Location
- Manila, Philippines / Jakarta, Indonesia
Candidates must have valid working rights in the respective country.
