Human Resources Associate (Recruiter) at World Food Programme (WFP)

What will you do?

• Manage allocated recruitment actions to ensure consistent, high quality and timely implementation of approved recruitments. 
• Carry out sourcing and outreach initiatives to attract passive/active candidates with a special focus on gender.
• Ensure vacancy announcements issued are gender-neutral, attractive and inspiring to applicants.
• Support employer-branding events like career fairs, employability trainings, social media content development among others.
• Effectively communicate with applicants about the vacancy announcement throughout the selection process.
• Ensure full administrative support is provided with the ongoing recruitment processes (scheduling tests or interviews, reporting).
• Ensure timely and qualitative longlisting of candidates for open VAs under the leadership of the Head of Talent Acquisition team. 
• Extract and compile HR data on staff recruitment and selection, contractual conditions, entitlements to support analysis and reporting needs. 
• Monitor, evaluate and report on relevant sourcing, selection and recruitment data.
• Use HR management systems for entering and updating a variety of HR data including reporting and monitoring various deadlines.
• Perform other related tasks as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Completion of secondary school education. A university degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration or related field is a plus. 

Experience: Six years’ experience in a recruiter role in a multi-cultural environment. A strong background and passion for talent acquisition best practices, sourcing and leading-edge selection tools is a must. Certified/trained in developing competency-based questions based on position requirements and carrying out independently a competency-based interview.

Language: Proficiency in oral and written communication in English.

 Knowledge & Skills: 

• Expertise in outreach and sourcing talent. Experience using LinkedIn and job boards to source candidates.
• Good understanding of key HR principles and talent acquisition best practices including CV screening, candidate engagement, scheduling assessments with candidates, interviewing, onboarding.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and flexible attitude towards shifting tasks and responsibilities.
• Ability to create trust with team/employees and deal with confidential information in a professional manner.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver timely high-quality deliverables including writing reports and deduct lessons learned/improvements.
• Proficient use of Applicant Tracking Systems (e.g. Successfactors, Taleo, etc.).
• Proficient user of data analysis tools such as MS Excel and other MS Office tools.

Terms and Conditions

Contract Duration: 1 year (initial)