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

Job Description

The Senior Recruitment Associate is a key position within the GAIN Human Resources function. Reporting to the Recruitment Manager and working closely with the wider HR and Recruitment teams, the postholder will be responsible for leading on a range of talent acquisition activities as well as supporting the HR team with general projects alongside other team members to ensure consistency and learning.

Specific Responsibilities include;

1. Leading GAIN’s full recruitment lifecycle activities across countries in Africa (and other designated areas as may be required), the postholder will be responsible for talent acquisition at levels from intern to senior executive.
2. Developing talent pools through first class candidate sourcing, maintaining consistent KPIs in speed/quality of hire and establishing strong business partnering standards
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Collaborating with members of HR, GAIN’s country office teams and the leadership team to understand current and future hiring requirements through workforce planning activity
7. Developing innovative recruitment campaigns and strategies to support with niche hires
8. Providing specialist guidance/expertise on pipelining and sourcing channels appropriate to GAIN’s in-country requirements.
9. Providing expert guidance to hiring managers and interview panels on the design and delivery of competency / strength-based interviews and assessments

About You

You should be an experienced recruitment specialist with a background in recruitment process outsource (RPO) or in-house functions. 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 head-hunting, 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.