Senior Recruiter
Job Details
- Languages
- Professional French and/or Portuguese language skills.
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of relevant recruiting experience for tech-forward INGOs or mission-driven scale-ups or startups.
- Bring deep proactive-sourcing experience for senior roles, including building pipelines from scratch in markets where talent is not obviously labeled.
- Show a track record of sourced candidates and completed hires.
- Have owned senior, end-to-end searches across multiple functions.
- Bring experience across technical or professional roles and programs or field leadership.
- Have recent recruiting experience in sub-Saharan Africa and familiarity with its talent markets.
- Have experience partnering strategically with hiring managers and maintaining search quality when a search is stalled.
- Keep pipelines clean and current, track conversion and time-in-stage, and use funnel data to guide decisions.
- Be comfortable working with ambiguous briefs, thin markets, and no existing pipeline.
- Demonstrate candidate-closing ability and experience carrying candidates through to signature.
- Professional French and/or Portuguese language skills are strongly preferred.
- Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, and AI-assisted sourcing tools are strongly preferred.
- Being based on the African continent is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own Senior Manager+ searches from launch through offer, starting with programs leadership and tech and extending to other functions.
- Serve as the recruitment focal point for senior searches and hiring managers.
- Build and maintain regional talent pipelines and relationships with institutions and networks across the continent.
- Map talent pools, build Boolean searches, and use LinkedIn Recruiter and other tools to create calibrated pipelines through outbound sourcing.
- Translate vague profiles into searches and recommend profile or approach changes based on market conditions.
- Lead launch calls and hiring-manager syncs, manage timelines, and uphold process quality.
- Maintain Greenhouse pipelines, review funnel data, diagnose stalled searches, and drive hiring decisions.
- Manage candidate experience, compensation and logistics discussions, and offer closing.
- Peer-coach junior recruiters and develop shared sourcing and search practices.
- Share market insights with the Director, TA and contribute to projects that improve hiring.