Description : Industry: Non-Profit Organizations | Employee Size: . Role Purpose: The Manager - People Operations will anchor the end-to-end people operations function, ensuring seamless employee lifecycle management, robust payroll and compliance systems, high-quality HR data and reporting, and meaningful employee engagement across central and state teams. Key Responsibilities: Employee Lifecycle & HR Operations - Manage the complete employee lifecycle from offer acceptance to separation, serve as the primary point of contact for employees on HR processes, policies, and benefits, ensure timely and accurate issuance of all employee-related documentation, design and implement automated systems for seamless document generation. Payroll & Statutory Compliance - Lead and manage the end-to-end payroll process for all employees and consultants, ensure accurate salary processing, disbursements, and payroll reconciliations, generate payroll reports, analytics, and statements, track donor-wise salary allocations and reporting, ensure timely compliance with statutory requirements, support POSH and regulatory compliance frameworks, coordinate payroll and compliance audits. Contracting & Donor Alignment - Track donor funding timelines, manage timely issuance, renewal, and closure of contracts. HR Data, Systems & Analytics - Own and manage HR dashboards, MIS, reporting, track HR metrics including attrition, hiring, engagement and diversity, design and administer exit surveys, employee pulse surveys and satisfaction surveys, lead Great Place to Work certification processes, ensure data accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality. Employee Engagement & Experience - Design and implement annual employee engagement and employee connect strategies, plan and execute employee connect sessions, thematic engagement activities, cross-team interactions, travel to field locations for engagement initiatives. Employee Relations & Culture - Act as a trusted point of contact for employees and address concerns with empathy and confidentiality. HRMS Management (HR One) - Manage employee data, system configurations, workflows, dashboards, reporting setup, and LMS content management.