JOBS: Human Resources Associate (Recruiter) at World Food Programme (WFP)
The World Food Programme is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.
Leah Mukangai 
What will you do?
- Manage allocated recruitment actions to ensure consistent, high quality, and timely implementation of approved recruitments.
- Carry outsourcing and outreach initiatives to attract passive/active candidates with a special focus on gender.
- Ensure vacancy announcements issued are gender-neutral, attractive, and inspiring to applicants.
- Support employer-branding events like career fairs, employability training, social media content development among others.
- Effectively communicate with applicants about the vacancy announcement throughout the selection process.
- Ensure full administrative support is provided with the ongoing recruitment processes (scheduling tests or interviews, reporting).
- Ensure timely and qualitative longlisting of candidates for open VAs under the leadership of the Head of Talent Acquisition team.
- Extract and compile HR data on staff recruitment and selection, contractual conditions, entitlements to support analysis and reporting needs.
- Monitor, evaluate, and report on relevant sourcing, selection, and recruitment data.
- Use HR management systems for entering and updating a variety of HR data including reporting and monitoring various deadlines.
- Perform other related tasks as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Education: Completion of secondary school education. A university degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, or related field is a plus.
Experience: Six years experience in a recruiter role in a multi-cultural environment. A strong background and passion for talent acquisition best practices, sourcing, and leading-edge selection tools is a must. Certified/trained in developing competency-based questions based on position requirements and carrying out independently a competency-based interview.
Language: Proficiency in oral and written communication in English.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Expertise in outreach and sourcing talent. Experience using LinkedIn and job boards to source candidates.
- Good understanding of key HR principles and talent acquisition best practices including CV screening, candidate engagement, scheduling assessments with candidates, interviewing, onboarding.
- Excellent inter-personal skills and flexible attitude towards shifting tasks and responsibilities.
- Ability to create trust with team/employees and deal with confidential information in a professional manner.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver timely high-quality deliverables including writing reports and deduct lessons learned/improvements.
- Proficient use of Applicant Tracking Systems (e.g. SuccessFactors, Taleo, etc.).
- Proficient user of data analysis tools such as MS Excel and other MS Office tools.
Terms and Conditions
Contract Duration: 1 year (initial)
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates are requested to submit online applications through E-Recruitment.
Applications that do not meet the above requirements will be disregarded. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Interested and qualified? Go to World Food Programme (WFP) on career5.successfactors.eu to apply
