Senior Recruitment Associate (Africa)

About GAIN

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with both governments and businesses, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people. In particular, we aim to make healthier food choices more desirable, more available, and more affordable. GAIN’s mission is to advance nutrition outcomes by improving consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable to malnutrition.

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 life cycle 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 on boarding)
• 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

Competencies, skills & attributes:

• Knowledge and understanding of international recruitment for a global organization, 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 organization
•  Strong multi-tasking, interpersonal and organizational skills
•  Advanced knowledge of HR and recruitment functions and practices (direct sourcing, HR life cycle, 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

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 behavioral 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 organization
• 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