Overview
The Senior HR Assistant, Recruitment provides operational and analytical support across the recruitment lifecycle, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely execution of recruitment processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from job posting to onboarding, ensuring compliance with WBG policies and standards.
- Partner with hiring managers to align timelines and processes while coordinating end-to-end recruitment workflows across longlisting, shortlisting, assessments, interviews, and final selection.
- Conduct detailed reviews of external applications to produce high quality longlists aligned with business requirements, leveraging both scoring questions and detailed resume review.
- Maintain accurate system records and manage confidential candidate data, including timely candidate disposition according to recruitment process steps and WBG data standards.
- Respond to candidate, hiring manager, and HR inquiries with accurate guidance and timely recruitment updates.
- Support hiring manager / selection committees by coordinating recruitment logistics, system transactions, and process steps.
- Ensure recruitment activities comply with WBG policies, quality assurance standards, and governance standards.
- Identify process gaps, support workflow improvements, and track resolution of quality assurance report.
- Contribute to meeting or exceeding the 75-day Time to Select service standard through effective time and workload management.
- Demonstrate adaptability in response to changing systems, processes, and policy requirements.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience in recruitment, preferably within a multinational organization.
- Proven experience managing the full recruitment lifecycle, including job postings, candidate screening, interviews, offer documentation, onboarding, and candidate disposition, with high accuracy and compliance.
- Skilled in structuring process timelines, managing dependencies, prioritizing multiple requisitions, and ensuring smooth workflow continuity.
- Strong understanding of recruitment governance, risk controls, documentation standards, and strict data protection protocols.
- Experienced in conducting structured candidate assessments and resolving process bottlenecks efficiently.
- Ability to provide policy-aligned guidance to candidates and hiring teams, with sensitivity to diverse global work environments.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Management, Behavioral Sciences, Business, or a related field.