Overview
The Recruiting Specialist is responsible for ensuring compliance review and carrying out recruiting activities, coordinating with hiring managers and candidates for timely filling of posts.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the focal point for recruitment and selection of personnel.
- Process requests for job advertising, review position descriptions, titles, and grade levels.
- Assist in screening applications, advise on preliminary assessment methods, and organize their administration.
- Review eligibility and qualifications of shortlisted candidates and advise on shortlists.
- Review deselection reasons and provide guidance to ensure transparency and fairness.
- Review/draft and propose competency-based interview questions, schedule interviews, and assist selection panels.
- Support with the reference check process.
- Draft/Review selection recommendation documents and coordinate submissions for approval.
- Participate in initiatives pertaining to building talent communities and feed talent pipelines.
- Maintain liaison with the Human Resources Administration Unit to support selection and mobilization formalities.
- Track offers sent to successful candidates and ensure unsuccessful candidates are notified.
- Address issues related to recruitment processes and recommend courses of action.
- Respond to e-mail inquiries received in the REC Mailbox.
- Assist in monitoring and updating staffing table and recruitment tracking lists.
- Keep an auditable record of all activities and feed the recruitment audit trail.
- Prepare information in support of periodic statistical reports.
- Contribute to sourcing and attraction efforts and outreach activities.
- Identify and analyze areas for improvement related to procedures and processes.
- Participate in the provision of training to REC’s stakeholders.
- Serve as backup for the National Human Resource Officer and replacement of Recruitment Assistants.
Required Experience
- University degree with four (4) years relevant professional experience.
- Completed High School degree with six (6) years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience processing human resources transactions and exposure to talent acquisitions and talent management concepts and processes.
- Experience using social media to serve recruitment and selection objectives.
- Experience supporting recruitment and selection in humanitarian or non-for-profit organizations is desirable.
- Experience on Human Resources statistics is desirable.
- Experience working in a multi-cultural setting an advantage.
- Knowledge of IOM/ UN personnel and financial policies and staff rules and regulations an advantage.
Qualifications
- University degree in Human Resources, Business administration, Industrial and Organizational Psychology or any related field from an accredited academic institution.
- Completed High School degree from an accredited academic institution.
