Talent Acquisition Coordinator

Lead recruitment and onboarding efforts to attract top talent.

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Application deadline 3 months ago: Monday 27 Apr 2026 at 23:59 UTC

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Overview

Lead recruitment and onboarding efforts to attract top talent.

You have:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in HR Management, Business Administration or any other relevant field with 4 years of relevant work experience with international organizations.
  • Understanding of local labour laws.
  • Experience of delivering client-oriented HR services.
  • Experience in delivering quality recruitment during a humanitarian situation or massive recruitment actions.
  • Keen to details.
  • Results orientated and analytic.
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage different priorities simultaneously.
  • Strong organization and prioritization skills.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills in English & Arabic.
  • Willingness to learn, adapt and develop oneself as an HR professional.
  • Familiarity with sci-HRIS and intermediate proficiency in MS Office.
  • Experience working with multi-donor and multi-site programmes is a plus.
  • Familiarity with all aspects of HR.
  • High flexibility.
  • Strong sense of urgency and work ethic.
  • Can tolerate working under ambiguous circumstances and sometimes difficult situations.
  • Managerial experience is preferred.
  • Must have the ability if necessary to be able to independently make good decisions to solve problems.
  • Must be a team player, or ability to coordinate and work well with others.
  • Understands and believes in Save the Children’s mission and vision; commits to its objectives and willing to adopt Save the Children’s methodology and framework.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Recruitment

  • Conducts end-to-end recruitment ensuring that the process is fair, transparent, competitive and consistent with SCI and local regulations.
  • Coordinate with labour office and HAC for end-to-end recruitment process and as per accepted Procedures.
  • Review job descriptions and ensure that they are developed in a consistent manner and according to the established salary grades.
  • Conducts job evaluation process for new or updated functions to ensure alignment in current scale and structure
  • Provide guidance to hiring managers in identifying key competencies and to select the best-fit
  • Conducts applicants screening processes – longlisting, interviews, exam
  • Ensure proper and timely vetting and background check of new employees.
  • Ensure proper process is followed throughout the placement of new staff with complete documentation
  • Preparation, release and ensures understanding of the staff on the employment conditions
  • Ensures trackers are regularly maintained and updated
  • Assist field office recruitment staff in their recruitment requirements
  • Assist the recruitment team in ensuring all recruitment actions are addressed and processed on a timely manner
  • Ensures an up to data tracking system of all recruit actions
  • Be on the lookout for continuous improvement on recruitment policies and practices
  • Contribute on keeping candidates attracted through monitoring of benefits package of similar INGOs

Onboarding

  • Coordinates with Compensation and Benefits team to ensures that newly hired employees are included in the payroll, HRIS and provided related benefits
  • Coordinates with Learning and Development Team to ensure proper orientation
  • Ensures that all newly hired staff have been provided with identification cards, official email addresses, laptops, cellular phones, office space, office supplies
  • Networking
  • Actively explore contacts across country in order to have a wider scope of candidates
  • Maximize social media as a recruitment platform
  • Involvement in professional and development meetings to increase familiarity to key stakeholders
  • Other Functions
  • Support managers and employees on understanding organizational rules and regulations as well as labour laws
  • Support managers on manpower planning
  • Review/update processes and policies in timely and relevant to the changing situation of the organization
  • Support in HR related projects
  • Assist in enhancing HR metrices to ensure efficiency in implementing deliverables
  • Ensure the implementation of HR systems, policies, procedures and guidelines as required by Save the Children including Oracle and any other HR developed system to ensure sustainability and continuity of systems.
  • Participate in proposal development to ensure appropriate manpower requirement and aligned with internal policies, terms and procedures
  • Perform any other relevant task as assigned by the supervisor.

    EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

    QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

    Essential:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in HR Management, Business Administration or any other relevant field with 4 years of relevant work experience with international organizations.
  • Understanding of local labour laws
  • Experience of delivering client-oriented HR services.
  • Experience in delivering quality recruitment during a humanitarian situation or massive recruitment actions
  • Keen to details
  • Results orientated, analytic and flexible
  • Ability to work under pressure and manage different priorities simultaneously.
  • Strong organization and prioritization skills.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills in English & Arabic.
  • Willingness to learn, adapt and develop oneself as an HR professional.
  • Familiarity with sci-HRIS and intermediate proficiency in MS Office.
  • Experience working with multi-donor and multi-site programmes is a plus
  • Familiarity with all aspects of HR
  • High flexibility
  • Strong sense of urgency and work ethic.
  • Can tolerate working under ambiguous circumstances and sometimes difficult situations
  • Keen with details
  • Managerial experience is preferred
  • Must have the ability if necessary to be able to independently make good decisions to solve problems.
  • Must be a team player, or ability to coordinate and work well with others.
  • Understands and believes in Save the Children’s mission and vision; commits to its objectives and willing to adopt Save the Children’s methodology and framework.

Potential interview questions

Can you describe a time when you had to implement a fair recruitment process? This assesses your approach to fairness and transparency in hiring. Provide a specific example focusing on the steps you took to ensure fairness.
How do you prioritize multiple recruitment tasks under tight deadlines? This evaluates your time management and prioritization skills. Pro members can see the explanation.
What strategies do you use to attract candidates for difficult-to-fill positions? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Discuss your experience with onboarding new employees. What processes do you follow? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Have you ever had to deal with a conflict during the recruitment process? How did you handle it? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
How do you keep track of recruitment metrics and ensure they are up to date? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
What experience do you have with local labor laws and how do they inform your recruitment practices? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Can you provide an example of a successful HR project you led? What were the outcomes? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Added 3 months ago - Updated 3 months ago - Source: savethechildren.net