The Volt family is hiring! We are a scale-up primarily operating in the festival industry looking for a new colleague to head our HR team by recruiting, managing and caring for our event staff. After your first season with us, our hope is that you can use your experience and creativity to develop our HR department even further. If you want to work in an informal, non-hierarchical environment where responsibility is given according to drive, then you should apply to be our new HR Manager!

The position:

Volt is a dynamic company with a core office of 7-10 people +100 paid seasonal staff and +600 volunteers over the festival season. It is vital for our business that all employees live up to our values and match our young, fun and innovative profile. This poses a great challenge for our HR team who every year recruits, trains and manages hundreds of young talents to take responsibility for our service at festivals. During your first season with Volt, your main focus will be to structure our hiring processes and ensure that we have the staff needed for our event season. This is vital for our organization as we wish to build on our seasonal team and better integrate them into the planning and execution of events. We are at the moment experimenting with an employee model where we want to hire this young talent and bring them into our offices during the season to build a strong funnel for our future employee needs. Over time, it will be your role as the HR Manager to develop, organize, and evaluate such processes as we go.

You will lead a team of people whose responsibilities will include:

• Recruitment of Festival Managers, Team Leaders, and Volunteers

• Training of personnel

• Contracts and salary payments

• Shift plans and logistics

• Team events, Friday Bars and parties

• Employee care

• Feedback and evaluations

Your overall role is to translate business objectives into HR solutions and pull the right resources into your year-round HR team and our seasonal team. You will develop the HR strategy together with the management team, and thereby have great influence over the overall direction and management of the company.

You..

• Contribute to a good work atmosphere by bringing in an approachable personality and an interest in being the go-to person for Volt staff of all levels of engagement with the company

• Are a structured worker who can manage long term processes and moderate them according to unexpected challenges

• Prioritize the wellbeing of your colleagues as highly as the success of your ideas and projects

• Are a great communicator who can express clear goals, while also creating a space for dialogue

• Take initiative when you see room for improvement and you have a personal vision for what successful HR management is

• Take deep breaths when your team is busy and keep the overview of your goals and task

• Are stable and able to handle several days in a chaotic (and fun) festival environment under high pressure

The perks:

• You will become part of a young, international and fun office team

• You will be working closely with your new colleagues in HR as well as in coordination with our event operations team

• You will be able to attend a line of events and festivals to test your ideas and gain knowledge of the industry op close

• You will experience the benefits of working in an informal but ambitious start-up, where the impact of your efforts are highly visible

• You will be attributed as much responsibility as you show interest and ability to manage and have the possibility to realize new ideas within the company

Practicalities:

• You will be working from Volt HQ in Nørrebro, Copenhagen

• Danish skills (written and spoken) are a big plus, but we evaluate each candidate individually based on an overview of their personality, experience and their general fit for our company

• The position is full time, but the workload will be more intense in the festival season during the summer

• We will discuss salary according to your qualifications

• The expected start date is January 1st (in reality the 2nd of cause...) ;)

Please apply via The Hub.

For more information, please do not hesitate to reach out to:

Marie Sakina Chaudhri, COO

marie@getvolt.dk