Recruitment Specialist at Andela

About You

• You are passionate about supporting recruiting functions, building and designing systems and process that increase efficiency and you have a love for finding and supporting unique individuals that, given the right role have the power to change the world.
• You are excited to represent Andela to a wide variety of candidates across levels of seniority and thrive in a multi-functional role in fast-paced, innovative environments, and solving key issues enabling recruiting functions to thrive and aiding in finding and empowering Africa’s top talents.
• You have strong analytical and time/project management skills. You are a confident self-starter and a results-oriented individual excited by the mission that you apply your skills towards.
• You’ll partner closely with the Recruiting team to optimize the job roles in focus.

About the Role

• Andela is a fast growing organization that requires a strong recruitment team to achieve its hiring goals.
• The Recruitment Specialist will work with an awesome team to drive Andela’s recruitment strategy of hiring top talents whose values and goals are very well aligned with that of Andela.
• In partnership with hiring managers, you will be responsible for sourcing and hiring these talents while ensuring all stakeholders have a great hiring experience.

Key Responsibilities
Candidate Sourcing and selection:

• Actively source top talent online to build a funnel of qualified candidates for a quickly scaling and dynamic global team, for diverse functions across the organisation
• Work closely with hiring managers to achieve a clear understanding of job roles in order to identify the best talents
• Design and maintain systems that guarantee punctual and delightful evaluation processes for our candidates.
• Comply with and bolster data analysis systems to improve performance tracking once hired.
• Engage and captivate the interest of high-quality candidates and convert those candidates into hires.
• Identify new sourcing channels and tools through frequent research
• Ensure a best-in-class selection process

Stakeholder Management:

• Coordinate and communicate with internal stakeholders to guarantee headcount is filled on time, and through the most equitable and objective processes possible.
• Partner with hiring managers to identify hiring needs and best ways to fill those needs.
• Proactively guide internal stakeholders towards best hiring practices.
• Provide timely feedback to candidates to ensure a great candidate experience
• Maintain positive relationships with candidates in ways that could yield referrals that could become potential hire
• Build a community of top talents that can be tapped into in the near future
• Create accessible resources for your stakeholder (candidates, hiring managers and interviewers)

Others:

• Facilitate workshops aimed to improve the recruitment process across the organisation
• Develop Initiatives that add value to the organisation in areas relating to talent sourcing and management
• Collaborate with the Recruiting Manager to continually develop and improve on existing recruitment processes
• Assist the recruiting operations team in optimizing the hiring process

Qualifications & Characteristics
As the ideal candidates for this role should possess the following:

• 2-5 years experience in talent acquisition/recruitment - technical recruiting would be a bonus
• Certified member of Chartered Institute of Personnel Management or related body is a bonus.
• A self-starter and able to work independently with some ambiguity and develop process and structure as needed.
• Creativity in expanding the ecosystem for sourcing top talent for Andela.You are Innovative and a supporter of diversity and equal employment opportunity
• Active sourcing experience through platforms such as LinkedIn, Boolean search exposure and leveraging networks through referrals and internal applicants
• Familiarity with employment laws and be supportive of diversity
• Curiosity about how to improve efficiency in attracting top talent from across the continent and the diaspora.
• Motivation to relentlessly and consistently engage and follow-up with prospective candidates and referrers.
• Excellent People, Communication, Problem-solving, Negotiation, Time management and Coordination skills.
• You understand the value of maintaining positive relationships and creating an awesome candidate/hiring manager’s experience.
• You have a knack for developing, coordinating and implementing the calendars of activities to ensure that targets are hit in a timely manner
• Excellent knowledge and passion about Andela’s mission and vision. Able to convincingly sell Andela’s opportunity to prospective employees
• You drive results in a big way and can get things done. You are self-driven and have great independent follow-through
• You are great at researching candidates and their previous employers online, and have a very strong interest in talent acquisition and personal career trajectories.
• High learning velocity and readiness to be awesome

EPIC Values Alignment

• Demonstrable commitment to the learning & development of people and technology
• The ability to learn new things fast enough to amaze your friends and family.

Interested?

• If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, And a chance to change the world!