Job description
The Recruitment & Talent Officer is a new position within the Group HR Services unit. This position will play a key part in the provision of recruitment services through partnership with others members of our HR business units and key line managers. This role is responsible for ensuring that candidates with the appropriate skills, experience and organisational fit are recruited to our operations across Africa using international best practice recruitment tools, selection methods, online recruitment platforms and internal recruitment processes to ensure an efficient end to end recruitment experience.
The Recruitment and Talent Officer , working in partnership with HR colleagues across our business units , is responsible for the following:
Resource planning
Working in partnership with managers to identify vacancies and consider the options available to fill them .This will include:
• Overseeing the scheduling and co-ordination of each planned recruitment campaign
• Developing tools for early identification of potential vacancies and assessing the best approach
• Supporting managers with the authorisation processes and preparatory steps before recruitment
• Developing efficient systems that support the collating of the required recruitment documents
Attraction
This will include:
• Consistent and effective marketing with adverts, job profile and ensuring our Employer Brand
• Developing professional and productive relationships with our chosen media / web sites
• Developing and nurturing preferred supplier relationships with agencies
• Ensuring processes are in place for ensuring accuracy in documentation
• Designing and managing internal recruitment process
• Managing the in-house response handling service for both internal and external campaigns,
Selection
Responsible for giving professional advice on selection tools and managing the HR support service for the design, implementation and delivery of selection events. This will include:
• Developing the range of selection tools available such as : psychometric tests, assessment centres
• Excellent interview skills and ability to coach and develop others
• Answering speculative enquiries.
• Pre-employment checks
PLEASE NOTE THAT APPLICANTS MUST MEET THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE BELOW TO BE SHORTLISTED
Experience and Qualification- Degree with minimum of 2:1 or equivalent
- CIPD HR qualification or international equivalent
- MUST have significant international experience recruiting expats for mutiple international roles
- Considerable experience using Linked IN to recruit
Competencies
- Fluency in English and Portuguese – written and spoken
- Excellent Negotiation skills
- Tenacity
- Resilience
- Pro-active, Can-do Approach
- Excellent Organisational Skills
Technical Skills
- Ability to work with a range of attraction and selection methods, e.g. Assessment centres / skype interviews, psychometric tests, online tests
- Excellent ability to use Linked IN platform as effectively as possible
- Good relationships with local and national recruitment agencies (or ability to develop these)
- Excellent understanding of the global labour market
- Excellent ability in Excel and Word
- Previous experience in a corporate organisation in a specialist recruitment role
- Previous experience in Oil and Gas sector or related businesses
- Experience interviewing senior managers