Global Technical Recruiter at Rising Academy Network

About the job

• The Global Technical Recruiter position is a high impact hourly contract role with responsibility for sourcing, assessing and delivering top technical talent for our Digital team.
• This role will capture key intelligence from each candidate interaction to allow for optimal pipeline development.
• Additionally, this role leverages market data and talent acquisition expertise to educate hiring managers and the People team to yield high quality hiring decisions.
• This individual will own the candidate experience by acting as a company ambassador to internal and external candidates.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience in full-cycle recruiting/sourcing or a function of similar scope.
• Experience in building and implementing a talent acquisition strategy.
• Experience in building and cultivating relationships with clients and advising leaders on talent/hiring.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience closing candidates and discussing compensation packages.
• Familiarity with the local talent organisations in West Africa, East Africa, and India.
• Ability to build productive relationships and partner closely with the tech hiring team.
• Ability to prioritise and succeed in an environment with growing demands.
• Excellent consultative, organisational, and verbal and written communication skills with attention to detail.
• Passion for advancing the workforce as it relates to the diversity, equity, and inclusion of organisations, partners, and stakeholders.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Proactively engage passive candidates through sourcing and pipeline building as well as adopting new sourcing channels
• Provide market intelligence and strategy expertise to Business Partners and Hiring Manager to increase recruitment results
• Identify, screen, and pre-qualify candidates for IT, sales, or professional services roles through behavioural-based interviewing techniques
• Consult and Collaborate with internal partners on sourcing strategy, interviewing techniques and market data
• Provide complete, accurate and inspiring information to candidates and ensure an exceptional candidate experience through timely communication
• Mentor, train and guide other internal Team members in effective sourcing and candidate engagement techniques.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
• A minimum of 3-5 years of a combination of corporate and agency recruitment experience in technical recruitment
• Strong technical recruitment experience essential
• Excellent customer focus with the ability and desire to partner with HR colleagues, hiring managers and external vendors
• Demonstrated working knowledge of IT concepts and language
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in utilizing creative sourcing resources and social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
• Ability to create and execute effective talent acquisition strategies for various roles within the organization
• Strong communication skills including ability to clearly articulate information and ideas orally and in writing; ability to communicate compellingly to impact and influence decision making
• Proven experience in providing quality candidates at all levels of the organization with a focus on sustained pipeline development throughout the Africa and India regions
• Good sales aptitude with demonstrated ability to create compelling interest in both the position opportunity as well as the candidate

Benefits

• $20/hr with an estimated 20-30 hours per week
• Significant opportunity for increased responsibility and career progression