Remote Talent Associate

Summary

Join our team as a Talent Associate and help us find top talent for our teams, leveraging market data and talent acquisition expertise to strengthen our hiring process.

Requirements

• 2-4 years combined experience of both corporate (in-house) and agency recruitment in technical and non-technical recruitment
• Strong talent acquisition and management experience across different settings is essential
• Experience owning the full end-to-end recruitment cycle (from sourcing to offer) is required
• Familiarity with the local talent market across various geographies on the African continent
• Strong track record of direct talent sourcing and pipelining techniques in previous roles
• Experience in understanding, embodying and promoting the message, culture and brand of the organisations you have recruited for
• Experience in building and fostering relationships with stakeholders and advising them on hiring
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in utilizing creative sourcing resources and social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc to find the right talent
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent level experience required

Responsibilities

• Proactively engage candidates through effective sourcing, pipeline building and continuously adopt new candidate engagement techniques to find the right talent for the right roles
• Work with various hiring teams/managers to ensure all roles have clear, specific, and measurable scorecards and job descriptions before posting
• Provide market intelligence and strategy expertise to hiring managers and key stakeholders to increase hiring results/outcomes for both technical and non-technical roles
• Identify, screen, and pre-qualify candidates for all assigned roles through behavioural-based and technical interviewing techniques in line with Rising’s Hiring Principles and A-Method Standard
• Collaborate with hiring managers and the people team to ensure all new joiners experience a smooth hand-off and a consistent and personalized onboarding
• Support in analyzing talent reports by providing real-time insights and analytics of key hiring metrics to inform decisions and improvements
• Promote and help establish Rising as a preferred and appealing employer brand for candidates and other key institutions
• Ensure all candidates are provided with complete, accurate and inspiring information about Rising and ensure an exceptional candidate experience throughout the process
• Mentor, train and guide internal team members on sourcing strategy, interviewing techniques and market data and to become masters of Rising’s A-Method

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits package