Director, Talent Acquisition Partnership Launch at NewGlobe Jobs In Kenya
Jobs Description
- You’ll be equally comfortable as a senior individual contributor as well as a leader overseeing highly-critical recruitment globally. This is a highly impactful and hands-on role, and the Talent Acquisition’s spearhead across sourcing, hiring strategy and delivery for NewGlobe’s new launches globally.
What You Will Do
- Carry out executive searches and headhunt for key leadership positions, particularly in Africa and Asia.
- Mentor, coach and lead talent acquisition managers across various geographies; advancing their capability to attract, pipeline, engage and assess candidates more effectively, bringing in and nurturing the strongest talent possible, not just recruit.
- Oversee the hiring and onboarding of Talent Acquisition Manager you hire for each new programme - enabling them to be fully set up and empowered, as you transition to launching other new programmes.
- Oversee searches full-lifecycle for a range of roles, primarily through your own efforts but also oversight of any contingent resources / external recruiters as needed. This will cover a range of high-growth programmes globally each year.
- Create and deploy various hiring strategies and initiatives - around sourcing and hiring practices, talent attraction, employer branding, outreach and partnership programs and internships.
- Champion best practices of talent acquisition, embody these and oversee the same across your Talent Acquisition teams, across a very high level usage of systems, processes and hiring quality.
- Review current processes objectively, and relentlessly focus on iteration - across quality of hire, time to hire and experience.
- Guide senior stakeholders and hiring groups by providing valuable insight and hiring and employment data.
What You Should Have
- Bilingual French and English language proficiency.
- Bachelor's degree ideally with superior academic performance.
- Fluency in both French and English.
- 6+ years within Talent Acquisition; including experience within a recruiting leadership capacity, we particularly value experience in extreme growth situations.
- A track record of sourcing and hiring for a range of locations globally. Leadership of hiring across regions, and any exposure working and living abroad is preferred.
- Prior experience within a fast-paced, metric driven Talent Acquisition organization (in-house / corporate or agency), as well as in designing and implementing talent acquisition solutions encompassing talent attraction and outreach programmes to build for longer-term talent pipeline.
- Extensive headhunting / direct recruitment experience, particularly with building diverse teams. Advanced level of Boolean / active sourcing abilities, able to leverage a wide range of talent mapping, sourcing, engagement and talent attraction channels.
- Curiosity, grit and a relentless spirit to uncover talent across Africa, Asia and globally.
- Experience with establishing and maintaining C-level relationships, internally and externally, demonstrating the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
- Willingness and excitement to travel significantly when Partnership Launch work arises - preferably around four to six weeks when setting up a new programme and hiring and onboarding a new Talent Acquisition Manager. Expect up to 50% travel across new launches, likely in Africa and Asia.