Recruiting
• Implement creative recruiting strategies to reach prospective applicants for high-level global and new country hires.
• Strengthening our unbiased hiring practices and educating our teams further on how to conduct team, culture, and technical interviews
• Liaising and maintaining relationships with recruitment channel partners including developing partnership agreements and monitoring the performance of these channels.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience for all applicants by responding to inquiries from prospective applicants timely and professionally.
• Screening and delivering top-tier candidates to interview by assessing, evaluating, and pre-screening candidates via CV reviews, calls, or emails
• Utilize the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to support interview scheduling and building pipelines

Build candidate pipeline
• Build networks for best-in-class talent sourcing and internal pipelines for several key functions.
• Implement new strategies to further develop the Educate! Brand to prospective applicants.
• Develop and execute marketing and pipelining strategies for attracting and hiring critical talent
• Leverage market data to develop appropriate recruiting and sourcing strategies, including but not limited to social media and direct marketing tactics, resulting in a strong pipeline of qualified candidates
• Support in the implementation and management of recruiting systems
• Designing the interview process and ensuring the hiring team is diverse

Business partner to the hiring manager and stakeholders
• Thoroughly assess candidates and provide insightful feedback for hiring managers
• Manage the interview process, providing clear communication for candidates, managers and internal stakeholders
• Serve as a thought partner for hiring managers in making decisions on their candidates. While the hiring team gets to decide who joins their team, quality assurance, is a priority for you- you will ask hiring teams the tough questions to ensure they are adequately assessing candidates and maintaining objectivity during the hiring process
• Partner with hiring managers to create job descriptions and define candidate profiles in order to develop recruitment strategies to attract qualified candidates
• Influence hiring manager to adhere to hiring process and technologies involved
• Leverage on data to develop insight on recruiting process, pipeline health and quality of hire

Country-Specific Recruiting Team Support
• Support our in-country teams in Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda with recruiting needs as they arise.
• Ensuring every part of the application process is consistent across teams and platforms, from the job description to the offer or rejection

Qualifications
• 5+ years of professional Recruiting/Staffing experience
• Measurable results recruiting top-tier talent from junior to executive-level roles
• Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruitment using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
• Experience with multiple outreach sourcing strategies to proactively source candidates
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment
• Attention to detail, organizational and prioritization skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle a high volume of requests in an effective and timely manner
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and email/internet
• Exceptional judgment in maintaining the confidentiality of employee and candidate information
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here