Senior Recruitment Associate (Africa) at Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)

About the Role

The Senior Recruitment Associate is a key position within the GAIN HR Recruitment function.

Reporting to the Recruitment Manager, the post holder will be working closely with the wider HR and Recruitment team to deliver on a high volume of recruitment activity as well as supporting the HR team with general projects. This is an exciting opportunity to help contribute to the development of the recruitment function.

Specific Responsibilities include;

• Leading GAIN’s full recruitment lifecycle activities across countries in Africa (and other designated areas as may be required), the post holder will be responsible for leading on a number of open vacancies at all levels
• Developing talent pools through first class candidate sourcing, maintaining consistent KPIs in speed/quality of hire and establishing strong business partnering standards
• Managing the delivery of complex end-to-end recruitment processes in a number of international locations (primarily across the Africa regions) in a highly organised and efficient manner (including advertising, shortlisting, interview screening and scheduling and onboarding)
• Building and maintaining a database of high-quality candidates to rapidly respond to recruiting needs, in addition to sourcing candidates through a variety of networks, events, databases and online resources
• Establishing relationships with external service providers (recruitment agencies, job boards etc) ensuring the best cost to hire, in addition to the delivery of an effective and quality service
• Collaborating with the Africa HR Business Partner, GAIN’s country office teams and the leadership team to understand current and future hiring requirements through workforce planning activity and conduct job evaluations in line with GAIN's classification scheme
• Developing innovative recruitment campaigns and strategies to support with niche hires
• Providing specialist guidance/expertise on job design, pipelining and sourcing channels appropriate to GAIN’s in-country requirements.
• Providing expert guidance and coaching to hiring managers and interview panels on the recruitment policies, recruitment and selection processes, design and delivery of competency / strength-based interviews and assessments

Competencies, skills & attributes:

• Knowledge and understanding of international recruitment for a global organisation, in particular an in-depth
• knowledge of the African recruitment space with the ability to work effectively within an international, matrix
• structure environment, preferably within an NGO, non-profit or civil society organisation
• Strong multi-tasking, interpersonal and organisational skills
• Advanced knowledge of HR and recruitment functions and practices (direct sourcing, HR lifecycle, recruitment and selection processes and labour laws across the GAIN Africa locations
• Ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal) to influence a wide range of stakeholders at all levels
• Customer focused – dedicated to meeting expectations and requirements of internal and external stakeholders
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong problem solving and interviewing skills
• Ability to present management information, including statistical, for presentation to senior executive and board level
• Creative thinker, able to develop innovative solutions to challenging hiring scenarios
• Reliable with a highly flexible, responsive and adaptable approach to work in a fast-paced and changing work environment
• Self-starter, with the ability to work without close supervision
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Able and willing to contribute to the development and delivery of the wider HR agenda

About You

• You should be an experienced in-house recruitment specialist with a background in HR ideally having worked within the not for-profit, development or public sector. You should also have in-depth knowledge of the African recruitment space with the ability to work effectively within an international, matrix structure environment.
• Alongside this, you should be experienced in international sourcing and direct hiring, including sourcing, and leveraging networks for a wide range of roles. Proven experience of applying job evaluation methodology (Hay method, Birches etc) would be an asset.
• In addition to the above, you should be educated to at least Bachelor’s degree level in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field, or possess equivalent relevant work experience. Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential, as are excellent IT skills.

Experience

• Solid recruitment / talent acquisition experience in a mid-to-senior recruitment specialist role (in-house) and knowledge of HR best practice
• Direct hiring experience for fast paced high volume recruitment at multiple levels with ownership of a recruitment function or area of business from end-to-end
• Proven experience of developing technical and behavioural assessments and competence instruments including creation of competency and technical interview questions and evaluation processes
• Demonstrable interviewing experience at all levels including competency-based interviewing
• Experience of hiring multi-disciplinary staff internationally across a multi-cultural candidate demographic
• Some experience or a strong desire to work for an international development organisation
• Expert experience of pro-actively sourcing technical and non-technical candidates, using tools such as LinkedIn recruiter and leveraging relevant networks
• Proficient with the use of applicant tracking systems and researching relevant job boards for effective and inclusive recruitment processes
• Some experience of applying job evaluation methodology (Hay method, Birches etc) would be an asset
• Experience training and mentoring other junior members of staff

Education

• University degree/diploma in human resources, business administration, or a related field or equivalent.

About our Offer

The starting salary on offer for this role is from 2,849,328 - 3,259,800 KES per annum, dependent on experience.

GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance.