Recruiter, Africa

Role Overview

This role leads end-to-end recruitment across a varied portfolio of positions in African markets, from defining a search with hiring managers to supporting offers and onboarding. By combining regional market knowledge, thoughtful candidate assessment, and close partnership with HR colleagues, the recruiter helps IJM attract people who meet its needs while maintaining fair, safeguarding-conscious, and compliant hiring practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage recruitment from role intake through selection and offer for regular, fixed-term, contract, temporary, and cross-regional vacancies.
• Work with hiring managers, Regional HR, the HR Director, and Global Talent Acquisition to shape search plans around workforce priorities and role requirements.
• Use market research, professional networks, and targeted sourcing methods to find and engage candidates across African countries and relevant global talent pools, including passive candidates.
• Review applications, conduct initial phone screens, and present suitable candidates for hiring-manager consideration.
• Coordinate interviews and assessments, helping interviewers apply consistent, relevant, professional, and fair evaluation methods.
• Guide hiring teams through interviews, debriefs, selection decisions, and offer discussions; coordinate approvals and help prepare and communicate competitive, compliant offers.
• Apply recruitment data and talent-market insights to advise hiring managers and improve search approaches, while keeping candidate and vacancy records current in Workday and other reporting tools.
• Oversee job postings, interview logistics, and assessment documentation; support onboarding coordination and work with HR, Global Mobility, vendors, and agencies on specialist or cross-regional searches.
• Follow applicable country and regional employment requirements, IJM policies, data protection expectations, Safer Recruitment standards, and safeguarding principles throughout the hiring process.
• Provide other HR support as needed and take part in IJM’s community of spiritual formation.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or a related discipline is preferred; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• At least five years of full-cycle recruitment experience. Exposure to other core HR functions is an advantage.
• Experience managing searches across multiple countries or markets, ideally in Africa, and recruiting at levels ranging from early-career to senior.
• Strong sourcing skills, including a record of engaging passive candidates and filling difficult roles in competitive talent markets.
• Ability to advise hiring managers on search strategy, candidate assessment, interview practices, and offer decisions.
• Working knowledge of African recruitment practices, ethical hiring, data protection, and compliance considerations, with sound judgment about when to seek country-specific HR or legal guidance.
• Experience with applicant tracking and human capital management systems; Workday Recruiting experience is preferred.
• Excellent organization, discretion, communication, and judgment, with the ability to manage multiple searches and shifting priorities in a dynamic setting.
• Regional or global recruitment experience is strongly preferred, as is a combination of in-house corporate and agency recruiting experience.
• Commitment to IJM’s Christian, Professional, and Bridge-Building values, including a mature Christian faith expressed through daily conduct, character, and service.
• A collaborative, adaptable, proactive, and solution-oriented approach to working with colleagues and candidates.