Position Summary
We are currently looking for a Talent Acquisition Advisor to join our People, Performance and Culture (PPC) team.
This is a fixed-term role, and the successful candidate will partner with stakeholders across the business and provide end to end talent acquisition services that lead to onboarding of high caliber talent, in order to meet business needs.
Key roles and responsibilities
- Participate in forecasting of staffing needs for experienced hires and graduate recruits, and in development of talent acquisition strategies and hiring plans.
- Support in development and review of job descriptions and job advertisements; Work closely with internal teams and hiring managers to understand hiring needs and ideal candidate profiles.
- Build hiring managers’ and Business Units’ capacity on how to use the recruitment system to ensure that all recruitment requests are fully approved in the system.
- Timely and accurate posting of jobs to internal/external websites and job boards.
- Assist in the scheduling of interview panels; plan and conduct end-to-end recruitment and selection processes which will include partnering with the Human Resource Business
- Advisory team and Business Units to undertake candidate assessments, screening, interviews, preparation of Employment Offers and Agreements, among others.
- Provide timely follow-up and feedback to candidates on application and interview status; filter issues to the appropriate parties.
- Maintain recruitment metrics and ensure that all data relevant to the Firm’s recruitment processes is up to date and clean for accurate, timely and consistent reporting; assist with reports on talent metrics and data visualization.
- Identify gaps and inefficiencies in the recruitment cycle and proactively provide actionable technology or process improvement solutions.
- Build and regularly update the talent pipeline both internal and external; actively engage in headhunting and active candidate sourcing initiatives; continuously research and identify role specific and function-specific candidate sources.
- Collaborate with assigned service providers in administration of recruitment processes as needed.
- Assist with written communications, training materials, and the design of other recruitment collateral, as needed.
- Participate in employment branding initiatives.
- Supervise Talent Acquisition Interns.
- Organize and/or attend career fairs, assessment centers or other events.
- Develop and maintain strategic relationships with professional HR associations and keep abreast of developments in the HR and recruitment space.
- Participate in the development of Recruitment polices and guidelines and ensure compliance and understanding by the Business Units’ and fair and consistent application in recruitment processes.
Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree – Upper 2nd Class Honors or equivalent.
- Certified Human Resources Professional
- Member of IHRM
- Minimum of 5 years in talent sourcing and recruitment.
Personal attributes:
- Good communication (written and verbal), numeracy,
- presentation and analytical skills
- IT proficiency, especially Microsoft Office and recruitment software
- An eye for detail
- Team player with leadership capability
- Excellent coordination and planning skills
- Goal driven and results oriented
We offer:
- An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
- Continuous learning and development.
- Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
- Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.
- Opportunity for international travel.
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If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please use the link below to apply:
Talent Acquisition Advisor – Candidate’s Summary. Filling the link is mandatory for consideration alongside your application to [email protected] quoting ‘Talent Acquisition Advisor’ by 6 February 2024.
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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