International Livestock Research
Institute (ILRI)
Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
Position Announcement
HR Officer - Recruitment
(Temp -
Maternity Cover)
The
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works to enhance the roles
livestock play in pathways out of poverty in developing countries.
ILRI is a
member of the CGIAR Consortium, a global research partnership of 15 centres
working with many partners for a food-secure future.
ILRI has
two main campuses in East Africa and other hubs in East, West and southern
Africa and South, Southeast and East Asia.
CGIAR is a
global agricultural research partnership for a food-secure future. Its science
is carried out by 15 research centres that are members of the CGIAR Consortium
in collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations.
Position
ILRI seeks
to recruit a HR Officer-Recruitment with a bias in Recruitment to assist in the
process of quality and effective talent acquisition and implementing strategies
to identify, attract, and hire high quality employees.
Responsibilities
- Support Internationally Recruited staff (IRS) full-life cycle recruiting processes and delivery of all areas of recruitment process; including sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviewing, assessment, and extending candidate offers.
- Reviewing, editing and posting IRS jobs on ILRI and CGIAR websites and other sites.
- Constant communication with recruiting managers on recruitment efforts and progress.
- Ensure recruiting processes, interviews and documentation are in compliance with ILRI’s policies and standard templates.
- Review of applications throughout the time that the job is open and proactively inform recruiting managers in the case of few applicants.
Communicate with
applicants.
- Maintain e-recruitment site for IRS and ensure standardization of adverts.
- Maintain time to fill statistics for ILRO board
- Reduce time-to-fill as well as increasing quality of hire by constantly monitoring and responding quickly.
- Prepare recruitment metrics to assess time-to-fill and identify process improvement opportunities.
Prepare of interview
reports.
- Prepare of recruitment weekly and monthly and quarterly reports.
- Contribute in preparation and review of job descriptions and adverts for all new positions.
- Assist managers in preparation of appropriate interview criteria questions to be used by self and others involved in the recruitment process, with emphasis on behavioural competences.
- Assist in relocation process and on boarding of new staff by facilitating travel and accommodation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in HR or Business related field.
- Higher diploma in HRM would be an added advantage
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in general human resources function.
- Prior experience working in a recruitment function is preferred
- Proficient in Ms office, including word-processing, spreadsheets, database management, MS- PowerPoint, Publisher, Word press, etc.
- High sense of confidentiality.
- An exceptional sense of professionalism, urgency, drive, intuition, and follow up.
- Flexibility in demanding situations.
- Good communication and networking skills.
- Ability to work within a team or independently.
- Ability to work in a systematic and organized manner, with high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Job Level: 2C/2D dependent on experience.
Duration: 6 Months
Availability:
Immediately
Applications
Email your
application to IHRM@cgiar.org by 4 September 2013.
The
position title and reference number: HRO/HR/08/13 should be clearly marked on
the subject line of the online application.
Only short
listed candidates will be contacted.
To find out
more about ILRI visit our website at www.ilri.org
