Recruiter: Human Resources Associate

JOB TITLE: Human Resource Associate (Recruiter) - 2 positions

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Service Contract

UNIT/DIVISION: ESARO, HR Talent Acquisition

DUTY STATION (City, Country): Nairobi

REPORTING LINE: Recruitment Team Leader

DURATION: 12 months

JOB PURPOSE:

The main responsibility of the Recruiter is to provide an efficient full cycle recruitment service including sourcing, organizing assessments, candidate engagement, recruitment documentation and analytics and recruitment administration.

Key accountabilities (not all inclusive):

• Manage full cycle recruitment process in close liaison with the recruitment team leader and respective hiring managers. Ensure consistent, high quality, timely implementation of the approved recruitments.
• Advertise vacant positions on appropriate job boards, social media, and other relevant platforms.
• Screen applications by assessing applicants’ relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Provide a list of longlisted qualified candidates to the hiring managers for review and consideration as guided by the Recruitment team leader.
• Prepare recruitment materials to the hiring team to support the selection process.
• Coordinate and conduct assessments and interviews with hiring managers using various recruiting and selection tools/methods, as per WFP guidelines.
• Act as a point of contact, maintaining communication with all applicants throughout the recruitment process.
• Ensure full administrative support is provided with the ongoing recruitment processes (scheduling tests or interviews, creating the notes for the record, circulating recruitment documents for signatures, etc).
• Extract and compile HR data on staff recruitment and selection, contractual conditions to support analysis and reporting needs.
• Monitor, evaluate and report on relevant recruitment data to further improve the Office recruitment process.
• Proficient use of Workday for managing the full recruitment cycle processes and contracting processes, when required; ensuring that all relevant data is up to date.
• Support and deliver onboarding activities when called upon to ensure new employees have a positive experience of WFP and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organization.
• Maintain recruitment documentation to ensure data are accurately stored and compliance with the established standards.
• Support with any other HR administrative tasks as required.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Education: A University degree in Human Resource Management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology, or other relevant fields, or a post-secondary certificate with additional years of related work experience.
• Experience: A minimum of six years of experience, at least three years in an HR role within a multicultural environment. A strong background in talent acquisition, particularly handling high‑volume recruitment, is essential.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Good understanding of key HR principles and talent acquisition best practices.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to work with a diverse team, multicultural environment.
• Ability to create trust with team/employees and deal with confidential information in a professional manner.
• Ability to work independently and to deliver timely high-quality deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability analyse, manage recruitment data, dashboards and write quality reports for decision making.
• Proficient user of Workday and other MS Office applications including SharePoint, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Flexible attitude towards shifting priorities and responsibilities.
• Creative problem solver, flexible and constructive approach.
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and prioritize multiple requests.

Language: Fluency in both oral and written English.

Skills Required:

• Hr / Public / Admin
• Sales / Marketing / Business / Management