Talent Acquisition Specialist at BasiGo

About the Role:

The Talent Acquisition Specialist will play a key role in attracting and hiring talented people who will drive BasiGo’s mission forward. You will support recruitment for roles across all departments, including technical, operations, and corporate, while ensuring a strong candidate experience, compelling employer brand, and scalable talent acquisition processes. This role reports directly to the Head of People and offers significant growth opportunities as BasiGo continues to scale.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Talent Acquisition & Pipeline Building

• Manage and lead the end-to-end recruitment cycle for Kenya & Rwanda roles, from requisition to offer stage.
• Draft, refine, and maintain compelling job descriptions that reflect BasiGo’s mission and culture.
• Source, screen, shortlist, and interview candidates across departments and levels (technical, operational, corporate).
• Build talent pipelines for critical and future roles while hiring for immediate needs.
• Coordinate assessments, interviews, and feedback loops with hiring managers.
• Collect feedback on the recruitment process to continuously improve efficiency and candidate experience.

Candidate Experience

• Ensure timely, respectful, and transparent communication with candidates throughout the hiring process.
• Create seamless and structured candidate touchpoints (applications, interviews, feedback, offer stages).
• Represent BasiGo’s values and culture in all candidate interactions.

Employer Branding

• Support employer branding initiatives in partnership with the Head of People.
• Contribute recruitment content for LinkedIn, careers pages, and culture communications.
• Manage our reviews on Glassdoor and other platforms.
• Help promote our mission, team culture, and impact in the EV space to attract top talent on different platforms, school career days etc.
• Support candidate outreach campaigns that highlight BasiGo’s mission, diversity, and growth.

Hiring Manager Capability Building & Recruitment Training

• Train, coach, and support hiring managers on best-practice recruitment, including interviewing techniques, competency-based assessment, role scoping, writing effective JDs, and delivering a strong candidate experience.
• Develop recruitment toolkits and training materials (interview guides, scoring rubrics, question banks, decision-making frameworks) to ensure consistency and fairness across all hiring teams.
• Partner with managers to strengthen their interviewing confidence and judgment, ensuring they are equipped to assess not only skills, but also values alignment and long-term potential.

Recruitment Metrics & Reporting

• Track and analyze recruitment KPIs (time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, cost per hire, candidate experience ratings, etc.).
• Provide hiring updates and data-driven insights to the People Team and hiring managers.
• Recommend improvements to hiring processes based on data and market trends.

Our Ideal Candidate:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Communications, or related field.

Experience:

• 4–5 years of experience in recruitment or talent acquisition, ideally in a fast-growing organization or start-up environment.
• Experience recruiting across multiple job families (technical, operations, and corporate roles).
• Experience in employer branding or candidate experience design is an added advantage.

Nice to have:

• Multi-market experience; proficiency in Kiswahili and/or Kinyarwanda is a plus.