Are you passionate about Recruitment and excellent at resourcing key skills?
Do you enjoy the corporate environment but wish to work half day?

If it's a "Yes" to the above questions, please keep reading....

Our client, a global player in the financial services sector, has a Recruitment Resourcer role currently open - they are seeking a Talent Acquisition Consultant for their Cape Town office, focusing on the experienced hire and managerial level vacancies

The advantage? It’s part-time! 20 hours a week.
This allows for some flexibility to meet with operational requirements, where necessary, especially when attending career fairs and such, however ideally Monday-Friday, 8h30 to 13h00 (excluding lunch break)

The ideal candidate will have gained both an agency perspective and inhouse recruitment experience…..and so understand the tenacity, creativity and drive required to build sound talent pools and source passive talent, as well as having gained the ability to imbed in an established corporate and/or global, highly matrix firm.

The role? To manage the local recruitment activity for South Africa. The role requires working flexibility across their business divisions, supporting a variety of levels and roles. A key objective is to partner with the business leaders to identify recruiting requirements and develop a recruitment strategy ensuring appropriate sourcing channels, resource capability and action plan to ensure TA deliver against business resource requirements. The TA Consultant will partner with the regional and Global TA teams, HR Business Partners and Centres of Excellence both locally and across the region as required.

This position reports to the Talent Acquisition Regional Manager in London and the HR Country Head in Cape Town.

The ideal candidate is a Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously when required and is action orientated and deadline driven by nature.

Major Responsibilities:
• End to End delivery of experienced hire and managerial level vacancies
• Support the Talent Acquisition workflow between the hiring managers in Cape Town and the entry level recruitment executed remotely from abroad
• Coordination with University Relations and local Universities for Career Fairs
• Management of external vendor providing Psychometric Assessments
• Oversight of Pre-Boarding and Criminal Checks e.g. finger printing
• Manage relationships with external recruitment agencies, when required
• Coordination of the Learnership Program and industry specific learning programs
• Lead TA initiatives to enhance the network and employer brand across the Cape Town labour market
• Lead local TA initiatives for sourcing candidates to meet diversity targets, in partnership with the remote recruiting team.
• Ad Hoc production of TA Metrics to support recruitment activity, resource planning, diversity and analysis of market trends
• Ensuring compliance with local legislation and “risk excellence” in all

Level of Education/ Qualifications: Under graduate degree preferred

Skills and Experience required include:
• Recruitment experience in a multinational organisation as an Internal Recruiter or within a Recruitment agency, financial services sector knowledge preferred
• Knowledge of the SA employment legislation (EEA, BCEA,LRA,BEEE)
• Experience in defining an innovative and client focussed Recruitment strategy
• Knowledge of sourcing channels sites and talent pooling techniques
• Proven experience of headhunting passive candidates
• Familiarity with psychometric assessments advantageous

What do you bring to the team?
• Ability to foster collaboration and teamwork
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including strong negotiation skills
• Excellent client focused skills
• Project management and implementation skills – the ability to manage multiple projects in unison
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Strong probing/interviewing skills (Competency Based Interviewing Skills)
• Reference checking skills

If you have not received any feedback within 2 weeks please assume that your application was not successful on this occasion.