Director, Talent Acquisition, New Opportunities
NEWGLOBE
Job location
Rwanda
Employment status
Full–time
Job details
New Opportunities
• New Opportunities brings the majority of our extensive breadth of technical expertise to ensure large scale transformation of education systems into one team. This team kick-starts new programs in new countries.
• Each member of the team is responsible for a core area of expertise, and then setting up all work and functions related to that expertise in the new program/new country.
• This includes putting all relevant policies, practices, systems and technology in place, and leading the hiring of the leader who will take charge of this work as the permanent lead for this body of work.
• This is our SWAT team, with specialists brought together to solve the critical and urgent problem of launching a state or nation-wide new program.
• This team must work collaboratively, thrive in creating order out of chaos, and understand that proactive problem solving is a daily task.
• All members of this team should expect extensive travel to remote and underserved areas, and to be resident in 2 other locations per year, setting up new programs.
• When not deployed on starting a specific program, each team member will do work with the core technical team which he or she represents, to support special projects, deepen technical knowledge, and otherwise advance in the field.
• This team is critical to delivering on our shared vision of transforming the lives of 10,000,000+ children, and in so doing seeing peace and prosperity where we work.
Talent Acquisition
• Talent Acquisition is responsible for bringing together purpose-driven, inspirational talent from diverse backgrounds to ensure we have the right team to deliver on our goals.
• We are proactive and data-driven problem solvers, and actively work as ambassadors for our work, sharing our successes, and inviting selected leaders to join our teams.
• To deliver on the promise of empowering teachers to succeed, and supporting all children to learn, the work all our teams do is all encompassing. We need team members who are ready to challenge their minds and hearts each day.
• We need bright minds who want to be part of building a new globe, a more equitable globe, to join us. We are rigourous in our section and evaluation processes, and then own a very warm welcome to those who join us, ensuring successful onboarding.
• We deliver excellence in candidate and new employee experience throughout this process. We pride ourselves on seeing the team members we bring build long-lasting and successful careers with us.
About the Role
• This role will oversee Talent Acquisition of the launch phase of our new programmes globally; and so has an incredible scope. Reporting directly into both our VP, New Opportunities and our VP, Talent Acquisition, you will collaborate closely with key global stakeholders, and lead hiring for our new launches.
• This role involves close collaboration with group and department leads, VP’s, territory MDs, and our C-suite to ensure a shared understanding of the strategy and value proposition amongst internal stakeholders and external prospects. You’ll be supported by one in-house Talent Acquisition Manager, and will functionally manage the new Talent Acquisition Managers recruited for our new programme launches, during the high-growth initial phase.
• You’re a highly seasoned talent acquisition and search lead, with advanced sourcing, negotiation and talent attraction abilities, an extremely effective communicator, both written and verbal, and are energized by interacting with people, building relationships, and networking. These things come naturally to you and are what you crave in your working life. A keen sense of ownership, speedy execution, scrappiness and innovation is a must. You’ll be a champion of executive talent acquisition, someone who truly wants to elevate and deliver for the function. You’re someone with a strong ability to multi-task and take ownership of the current talent acquisition process from the get-go. You must be comfortable evaluating processes and creating new ones, thriving in idea generation and execution. You will be able to thrive as a hands-on and dynamic and talent acquisition leader, capable of thinking strategically, building talent networks, and overseeing hiring for high-growth areas.
• You’ll be equally comfortable as a senior individual contributor as well as a leader overseeing highly-critical recruitment globally. This is a highly impactful and hands-on role, and the Talent Acquisition’s spearhead across sourcing, hiring strategy and delivery for NewGlobe’s new launches globally.
What You Will Do
• Carry out executive searches and headhunt for key leadership positions, particularly in Africa and Asia.
• Mentor, coach and lead talent acquisition managers across various geographies; advancing their capability to attract, pipeline, engage and assess candidates more effectively, bringing in and nurturing the strongest talent possible, not just recruit.
• Oversee the hiring and onboarding of Talent Acquisition Manager you hire for each new programme - enabling them to be fully set up and empowered, as you transition to launching other new programmes.
• Oversee searches full-lifecycle for a range of roles, primarily through your own efforts but also oversight of any contingent resources / external recruiters as needed. This will cover a range of high-growth programmes globally each year.
• Create and deploy various hiring strategies and initiatives - around sourcing and hiring practices, talent attraction, employer branding, outreach and partnership programs and internships.
• Champion best practices of talent acquisition, embody these and oversee the same across your Talent Acquisition teams, across a very high level usage of systems, processes and hiring quality.
• Review current processes objectively, and relentlessly focus on iteration - across quality of hire, time to hire and experience.
• Guide senior stakeholders and hiring groups by providing valuable insight and hiring and employment data
