Country: South Africa
Closing date: 01 Apr 2019
Overview
MSH seeks a highly motivated and skilled individual with experience in recruiting staff for USAID and other international donor proposal to join its Talent Acquisition team to support our Business Development Unit. The ideal candidate will have experience in international development and in recruiting both local and expatriate staff, ideally within global health.
The Senior Specialist in Talent Acquisition will primarily be responsible for the strategic recruitment of international staff for proposals and active projects.
Primary activities include but are not limited to: collaboration with staff in the Business Development, Budget and HR Partner teams to complete recruitment activities throughout the proposal process; write personnel-related narrative sections as required for proposals; conduct active and proactive recruitment for proposals and current projects; maintain and expand candidate pools within the talent acquisition system; maintain relationships with staff and potential candidates; and keep up with the recruitment contacts and current project staff databases in addition to the recruitment workflow system.
Specific Responsibilities
Full Life Cycle Recruiting:
• Lead and manage complex recruitment assignments that require creative application of recruiting knowledge to identify top talent for MSH vacancies for assigned globally, including US-based positions.
• Responsible for the full spectrum of recruitment activities from: working with proposal and hiring managers and to develop position descriptions; source appropriate candidates through internal and external networks, industry events and utilizing iCIMS data base and online electronic resources; follow standardized processes to screen and select the best candidates, ensuring compliance with all governmental and client employment specifications; negotiate and extend job offers which align with MSH’s compensation philosophy and collect all appropriate documentation and approvals to comply with MSH policies; hand over new hire information to HR team to onboard new employee
• From initial meeting with the hiring manager to develop recruitment strategies, manage communications between applicants, hiring managers and others to keep all parties apprised of the status of each search.
• Create a positive candidate and hiring manager experience through the full cycle of interviews, offer, and acceptance and beyond.
Proposal Recruiting:
• Lead medium-sized (10-40M USD), large (40M+) and complex rebid proposal activities from positioning through start-up, overseeing support recruiter as needed.
• When leading a bid, responsible for coordinating all proposal recruitment resources, tracking progress, and ensuring recruitment quality and compliance.
• Represent Talent Acquisition at Business Development Operations meeting and at Bid Resources meetings in the absence of Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Partner with groups and BD staff to develop collaborative relationships for bid management; establish strong rapport with hiring managers to understand their staffing needs.
• Lead the development of HR & Staffing strategy on large proposals and adapt to the bid size and type; help proposal teams develop appropriate staffing plans according to proposal requirements and help develop position descriptions and candidate rosters
• Build and maintain database of qualified professionals to rapidly respond to recruiting needs, in addition to sourcing appropriate candidates through a variety of networks, events, databases and online resources.
• Screen and select best qualified candidates using MSH’s standard processes while ensuring compliance to donor specifications and governmental legal requirements.
• Review and revise eligible candidate resumes to specifically address requirements for specified role
• Work closely with hiring manager to facilitate decision making and move to offer stage to ensure hiring deadlines are met.
• Collect all documentation in accordance with MSH specifications and donor regulations (including letter of commitment, references, due diligent and other proposal related documents).
• Negotiate offer ensuring that salary, benefits and allowances are within project/proposal budget and comply with donor requirements/regulations.
Process Improvement:
• Lead initiatives which contribute to the improvement of the overall talent acquisition function to include process improvement, documentation and training of junior recruiters.
Travel:
• Travel periodically to our international locations to participate in field recruitment activities.
Qualifications and Experience
:Education Requirement;
Required: BA degree in Human Resources, Health, International Studies or relevant field required, or equivalent
Preferred: Masters in Social Sciences with a focus in Human Resources, Health or International Studies.
Experience Required:
• 6 years’ recruiting experience; four (4) years of experience in the recruitment of multi-disciplinary staff for international development projects and proposals preferred
Knowledge and Skills Required:
• Demonstrated success supporting recruiting for employee groups of 500+ employees, preferably in international locations and with USAID or other similar donors (DfID, World Bank).
• Working knowledge of current USAID, State Department and other USG funding agencies’ rules and regulations.
• International development interest and experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of HR and recruiting functions, practices and approaches to include sourcing, research, and cold calling experience with a wide variety of sourcing vehicles, including internet sourcing/advertising, direct sourcing, trade journal/newspaper advertising, employee referral campaigns, job fairs and outplacement firms.
• Outstanding social media skills and strategies, especially in professional applications.
• Excellent information management skills, with very strong attention to detail and understanding of requirements.
• Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems, MS Office applications and Human Resources Information Systems; experience in iCIMs a plus.
• Excellent writing and synthesis skills with experience in intercultural communications.
• A proven methodology for getting hard to source candidates.
Languages:
• Fluency in English, both written and oral; abilities in French, and/or Spanish preferred
Other:
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally and domestically
How to apply:
https://jobs-msh.icims.com/jobs/10525/senior-talent-acquisition-specialist%2c-new-business/job