Senior Recruitment Associate 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, this is a pure recruitment role where the post holder will be working closely with the 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
• 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
• 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