With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Back ground

World Vision Uganda (WVU) is a Christian relief, development and advocacy non-government organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in 43 districts and have 48 Area Programmes implementing projects in health & nutrition, water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), livelihoods & resilience, education and child protection. World Vision (WV) is committed to the protection of children and adult beneficiaries from exploitation and abuse and will not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with these beneficiaries. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible.

Due to expansion in scope of our programmes, we are now seeking for a qualified and passionate individual willing to share in our vision and join the team in the following role.

Position:           Recruitment Officer

Report to:          People & Culture Recruitment Manager

Location:           Kampala – National Office

Purpose of the position:

The recruitment officer will provide support in overall talent acquisition to enable World Vision Uganda attract, develop and retain a skilled & available global workforce aligned to the competencies, skills and mindsets and behaviors required to realize our strategy.

Key Outputs/Responsibilities.

Talent acquisition (Candidate Sourcing, Screening, Selection and Onboarding)

• Support the recruitment process though drafting job adverts, screening candidates, coordinating interviews, and conducting vetting and background checks for selected candidates.
• Processes staff employment documentation including offer / appointment letters, contracts and job descriptions based on established staff employment policies, procedures and WVU total reward policy.

Communication and reporting

• Assist the recruitment manager with maintaining, monitoring and updating the recruitment tracking system and other databases as required.
• Produce and submit periodic recruitment up-dates to hiring managers to track the progress of recruitment assignments.
• Draft and submit monthly, quarterly and annual recruitment reports to the recruitment manager within the set standards and timeline.
• Ensure that feedback is shared with all candidates that have participated in interviews.

Management of Casual Labor Services

• Supporting the Recruitment Manager in management of casual labour services

Staff Onboarding

• Ensure a smooth on-boarding process for new staff.

Networking and Collaboration

• Develop, build and maintain relationships with hiring managers and People & Culture Business Partners in the respective hiring offices/ National Office in order to fill vacancies in a timely manner.

Qualifications: Education/Knowledge/Technical Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in either; Human Resources Management, Organizational / Industrial Psychology, or Social Sciences with Human Resource Management as a subject from an internationally recognized institution.
• At least 2-3 years of working experience in HR practice gained from a reputable organization
• Experience of supporting high volume staff recruitment activities across a wide variety of roles and professional sectors.
• Experience of using electronic recruitment systems
• Good knowledge of labour laws.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Innovative with proven high levels of integrity.
• Proactive personality, self-driven and strongly motivated.
• Demonstration of well-developed interpersonal skills
• Excellent computer skills.
• Excellent analytical and report writing skills.