People and Culture Program Manager

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association • Westminster, CO

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

The People & Culture Program Manager leads the design, implementation, governance, and evaluation of enterprise people programs to strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, employee experience, culture, engagement, and talent outcomes. This hybrid position has a focus area in Organizational Effectiveness. Acting as an internal consultant and cross-functional program leader, the role translates business and workforce needs into scalable solutions, leads change and adoption, and uses data to demonstrate impact. The position partners with People & Culture colleagues, leaders, employees, and external vendors to deliver integrated programs aligned with organizational strategy and values.

The role also manages the database of corporate policies, programs, and procedures; supports document owners in creating, updating, and improving documents; and assists with audits, regulatory reviews, and legal requests regarding documents. The position may require overtime at any time of day or week to support continuous, reliable electric service. Travel, including overnight travel, may be required up to 20% of the time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in organizational development, human resources, business administration, industrial/organizational psychology, education, communications, or a related field.
• Eight or more years of progressive experience in organizational development or HR program management.
• Deep experience leading complex, cross-functional programs from discovery and design through implementation and evaluation.
• Significant experience consulting with leaders and facilitating groups, workshops, or organizational interventions.
• Experience using data, feedback, and program measures to develop insights and recommendations.
• Working experience with policy management and regulatory audits.
• Willingness to travel, including overnight travel, up to 20% of the time.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Nice To Haves

• Professional certification in change management, project/program management, HR, coaching, assessment, or talent development.
• Experience in a complex, multi-location, operational, utility, energy, engineering, or regulated environment.
• Experience with HR technology, employee-listening platforms, dashboards, and vendor-managed solutions.

Responsibilities

• Assess organizational and workforce needs using qualitative and quantitative data.
• Design and facilitate interventions that improve team effectiveness, collaboration, role clarity, and organizational performance.
• Develop change-management, stakeholder-engagement, communication, and adoption plans for strategic initiatives.
• Support organization design, workforce planning, and operating-model efforts in partnership with leaders and People & Culture.
• Design and manage leadership-development programs, cohorts, workshops, assessments, and related learning experiences.
• Support succession planning, talent reviews, high-potential development, career growth, and internal mobility initiatives.
• Consult with leaders to identify capability gaps and recommend individual, team, or enterprise development solutions.
• Establish standards, tools, and resources that enable leaders to reinforce learning on the job.
• Lead employee-listening, engagement, recognition, culture, and belonging programs.
• Translate survey and listening data into practical enterprise and leader-level action planning.
• Design initiatives that reinforce organizational values and strengthen connection, inclusion, and employee experience.
• Partner on communications and change activities that build awareness, understanding, participation, and trust.
• Build and manage an integrated annual roadmap of People & Culture programs and milestones.
• Define scope, objectives, governance, decision rights, resources, risks, budgets, and success measures.
• Lead cross-functional project teams and manage vendors, contracts, deliverables, and service quality.
• Create repeatable processes, playbooks, facilitator guides, templates, and toolkits that support consistent enterprise delivery.
• Maintain compliance with company policies and procedures and stay knowledgeable about applicable regulations, laws, standards, and best practices.
• Manage the database of corporate policies, programs, and procedures.
• Support document owners with creating, updating, and improving documents.
• Assist with audits, regulatory reviews, and legal requests regarding documents.
• Work overtime at any time of day or week when needed to support continuous, reliable electric service.
• Travel, including overnight travel, up to 20% of the time.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work schedules, including compressed work week and telecommuting opportunities to work remotely up to 40%
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Long-term disability (LTD)
• Short-term disability (STD)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid leave benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior