Job in Abuja at VSO for a Recruitment Manager
VSO is the world's leading independent international development
organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty in
developing countries.
Our highimpact approach brings people together to
share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding
and action to change lives and make the world a fairer place.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Recruitment Manager
Location: Abuja
Job type: Full-time
Responsibilities
- Lead role in supporting programme and hiring managers in developing job descriptions, updating jobs in VSO’s recruitment system.
- Lead role for capacity building of the Country Office on good practice on recruitment and in line with VSO global policy.
- Credible reference point for recruitment methodology in country.
- Provide advice to partner organisations on VSO recruitment processes.
- Manage screening & short-listing of applicants. (International, ICS, Employees, consultants)
- Lead role in Planning and facilitating interviews with Country
Office panels and participating in interview panels (as applicable)
- Coordinate with Youth Programmes Manager as well as ICS
colleagues in UK on appropriate matching of UK volunteers with Nigerian
volunteers
- Negotiate offers and finalise all employment terms and contracts
in consultation with People and Operations Manager and hiring managers
(as applicable)
- Monitor country office recruitment plans for each program and
maintain status reports for reference by country management team and
Global Recruitment and Selection Manager
- Provide the Country Director and Recruitment and Selection Manager with accurate monthly update.
- Ensure preparation of job specific interview guides in collaboration with Hiring manager.
- Lead responsibility for the relationship management of the candidate at country office level
- Manage candidate communication in accordance with VSO policy and procedures
- Arrange the interviews of short-listed volunteer candidates and
lead on coordinating the pre-arrival discussions with selected volunteer
candidates.
- Coordinate with the Youth Programme Manager on projecting and
planning appropriate ICS in-country volunteer demands and follow-up with
the necessary recruitment processes.
Workforce Planning:
- Work closely with country office teams to improve performance & workforce planning activities.
- Support global workforce Planning team in collating country specific data.
- Lead responsibility for workforce planning in the Country Office.
- Ensure Country Offices comply with workforce planning principles and delivery timelines.
Sourcing:
- Support global Sourcing efforts by providing expertise on local
labour market analysis, make contact with potential sources of skills
and build resourcing partnerships.
- Work with programme development team in designing effective resourcing plans for projects and proposals.
- Track supply pipelines for country programs and communicate with sourcing team to address supply related concerns
Key Performance Indicators
- Customer satisfaction level high-Country Director Program managers and Partner organisations.
- Country office maintains updated workforce plan.
- Role and placement descriptions are of quality, realistic and accurate.
- Maintains a high level of data integrity on VSO systems.
- Behavioural competency framework is understood and used appropriately in country by all involved in the recruitment process.
- Effective, efficient customer focused recruitment service in place in country.
- Recruitment delivery targets for Country office are met and reported upon on a quarterly basis.
- Hiring manager and Partner Organisations’ expectations are managed effectively regarding staff and volunteer availability
- Labour market analysis regularly undertaken with Sourcing team informing programme, country demand and forecasting.
- Country and individual recruitment performance targets met
within the legal framework of the countries and within VSO policies and
guidelines.
Competencies
- Working together - strength: Successfully leads teams and develops others’ team working skills.
- Communicating and influencing - Strength:
- Inspires others by: advocating plans and ideas within and outside VSO; maintaining a wide, influential network;
- Coaching
- Developing people - adds value: Helps team members to create and
implement clear development plans that meet their own - and VSO’s -
short and long term needs
- Leading for the future - strength: Builds confidence and
excitement in VSO’s work and vision, both internally and externally;
leads innovative projects.
- Thinking strategically - adds value: Continuous improvement
mindset, with regular improvements suggested and implemented if
appropriate in a timely manner.
- Makes decisions based on a range of internal and external factors and long-term impact; consults widely across disciplines.
- Delivering results - strength: Effectively leads large teams or
complex projects, generating a goal-oriented, problem-solving team
mentality and ensuring timely, high quality results.
- Managing knowledge - adds value: Proactively seeks out new
knowledge sources (people and data); uses and shares knowledge
effectively
- Striving for excellence - strength: Leads initiatives to improve
monitoring, evaluation and learning; is a role model for continuous
learning and improvement.
- Managing resources - adds value: Organises own and others’ work
to meet objectives; clarifies accountability of roles; allocates budget
wisely; seeks ways to generate and save money.
- Managing people - adds value: Builds an effective team with
clear objectives; allocates work appropriately; deals with poor
performance and recognises success.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential:
Technical:
- Demonstrable Experience of managing an end to end recruitment
process across a country/region, managing and filling vacancies
appropriately.
- Experience of working with recruitment systems and ability to produce progress reports on a regular basis.
- Relevant academic qualifications.
Relationship Management:
- Experience of working with colleagues located dispersedly, able
to build strong working relationships, gaining trust and mutual respect;
being flexible, responding to perspectives and being assertive when
appropriate.
- Experience of working with external recruitment suppliers and other people external to the organisation.
- Experience of cross-cultural working and an understanding of issues of diversity.
Communication:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Articulate, persuasive and concise.
- Budget management:
- Experience of managing a budget and making cost savings.
Customer orientation:
- Customer focus mind-set, understanding and experience of
importance of listening to, understanding and meeting the needs of
customers.
Information Technology:
- Knowledge and experience of Microsoft and Applicants Tracking Systems (APS)
- Attention to detail: strong attention to detail, ensuring work is correct and able to quality check work of others.
Desirable:
- Experience of working in a virtual team.
- Experience gained within a volunteering/Non Governmental Organisation context.
- Commitment to VSO’s work and values
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Click here for more Information (PDF)
Interview/Assessment Date(s)
5th April, 2016
Start Date
3rd May, 2016.
Application Deadline 3rd April, 2016.