Recruiting Manager at Andela

About the Role

• You are passionate about building and growing a team and connecting a broad range of candidates to the role of their dreams.
• You thrive when hiring and innovating recruiting processes to hire across a broad range of technical and business disciplines.
• You have an intuitive sense of role alignment and a data-driven instinct for building scalable recruitment processes.
• You also understand the importance of recruiting best practices, candidate experience, project/program management and the service-based approach needed to be an Excellent recruiter, and are ambitious enough to be Andela Nigeria’s Primary Lead for Staff hiring.

Role Responsibilities

• Drive the growth of Andela Nigeria - leading the recruitment efforts across various departments
• Partner with other Country/Departament Leads/Recruiting members globally to share best practices and support the evolution of Andela’s world-class Recruiting team
• Testing and implementing Andela’s channel sourcing strategy and execution for engaging and attracting Africa’s top technologists and other non-technical profiles.
• Utilizing, providing feedback on, and improving templates, communications strategies, systems, and processes that enable the speedy, efficient, and quality delivery of high quality technologists into Andela’s
• Build efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing hiring operations, and help define new hiring strategies.
• Partner with senior level management on high-profile leadership requisitions and assist them in determining and fulfilling their talent needs.
• Build relationships with strong leadership talent in the marketplace. Source passive candidates through research, internal and external networking, and direct outreach.
• Leverage strategic thinking in order to run a successful search process and help hire exceptional talent.
• Provide an efficient and high-touch experience for every candidate from application stage to offer, evaluating skill level, driving the interview process and offer process, salary recommendations and closing of candidates.
• Create an outstanding process for building relationships with recruitment channel partners, vendors including developing partnerships and attracting top talents from across the continent and the diaspora.
• Set team’s objectives, priorities, and resources. Develop and track metrics for measuring hiring progress and selection effectiveness.
• Manage hiring marketing and project budgets to ensure that expenditure maximizes return on investment
• Relentlessly and consistently engage and follow-up with prospective candidates and referrers.

Qualifications & Characteristics
Our Ideal candidate should tick the following boxes:

• A University degree and a HR certification
• 4-7yrs in-house or recruitment agency full-lifecycle recruiting experience;
• Be aligned with, and able to see a link between their role and Andela’s overall mission
• Solid experience managing teams and leading them to a world class status;
• Have experience leading and scaling recruiting teams;
• Must be self-aware and an awesome people person; leveraging relationship management to achieve desired results;
• Ability to inspire, lead and drive people to happily exceed expectations;
• Have a combination of a service-oriented and data-driven approach;
• Be familiar with ATS/CRM systems, Spreadsheets (ideally Google Suite);
• Be well versed in active sourcing (through Boolean and social media);
• Have curiosity about how to improve efficiency in attracting top candidates from across Rwanda and neighboring sites;
• Be motivated to relentlessly and consistently engage and follow-up with prospective candidates and referrers;
• Be passionate about mentorship/development of junior colleagues;
• Have clarity when describing Andela's business model and value-add to technical and lay audience;
• Be creative  in expanding the ecosystem for sourcing top talent for Andela;
• Be an adaptable self-starter and able to work independently with some ambiguity and develop process and structure as needed.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, 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!