About the Role
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Recruitment Manager to manage the recruitment function and oversee recruitment activity across GAIN’s country offices. You will be defining recruitment strategies and overseeing all end-to-end global recruitment and resourcing activity across the organisation, with a focus on maintaining a high-quality service, process improvements, best practice and stakeholder and relationship management in line with the broader HR and people strategy. This role will be offered on a 12 months’ fixed-term contract, subject to availability of funding. You will be based in the GAIN London office on a full-time basis.
Reporting to the Head of HR, you will be responsible for all talent acquisition activity across all 15 countries and key defined business areas overseeing the full global recruitment lifecycle from job design through to onboarding, hiring around 90+ positions each year.
You will work closely with other colleagues in the HR team, managers, and all key programme areas and will lead a team of three team members.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Responsible for the strategic relationship management across the key business areas; understanding and identifying business strategy, objectives and priorities linked to recruitment activity and resourcing needs
- Collaborating with HR, Country Directors, HR Reps and functional programme leaders and hiring managers on a range of talent acquisition initiatives such as pipelining, talent management, diversity and workforce planning
- Leading and delivering a suite of recruitment projects in line with departmental and organisational needs
- Working with the recruitment team, overseeing, managing and delivering all operational end-to-end recruitment activity and campaigns across a range of business functions ensuring robust, cost efficient and timely delivery of all recruitment services
- Delivering on the end-to-end recruitment of Senior and C-level roles (Grade 7+) across all offices and acting as the overall 1st point of contact for business units and HROD team, developing effective and creative recruitment campaigns to attract and retain high calibre candidates
- Ensuring effective onboarding, compliance, and continuous review of the recruitment process, identifying areas of improvement and developing appropriate solutions
- Developing and managing frequent MI reporting to proactively shape resourcing solutions and influence leadership groups ensuring accurate data and establishing KPIs (i.e., Cost per hire, time to fill, diversity hiring, media effectiveness, hiring manager satisfaction, candidate satisfaction, new starters, offers and other relevant measures)
- Delivering first class customer and candidate experience through high quality, well documented processes and engagement (briefing, solutions, communication and reporting)
About You
The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience and proven track record in dealing with high-volume in-house international recruitment and talent acquisition delivery preferably within a INGO, non-profit, civil society or charity organisation organisation at a senior level. You will have experience working with multiple stakeholders with demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders – across multiple locations / disciplines. Candidates’ with recruitment management experience with both EMEA & Asia Pacific areas will be an additional asset.
The postholder will have extensive knowledge of international recruitment, with the ability to work effectively with a matrix and diverse structure, preferably within an NGO, non-profit, civil society organisation.
You will be an experienced team manager and a flexible individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders. In addition, you will have good judgement and decision-making skills, with the ability to find solutions to complex issues.
A Bachelor’s degree in business, HR or related field, candidates’ with CIPD qualification is desirable. The ideal candidate will have solid knowledge of relevant recruitment legislation and best practice. Also, you will have experience with psychometric assessments, applicant tracking systems and interest in recruitment technology and experience in producing, analysing and presenting complex MI reports.
About our Offer
The starting salary on offer for this role is from GBP 50,382 – GBP 54,000 per annum (gross salary), depending on experience. GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance.
We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.
GAIN also has a strong commitment to professional development. We will support you to grow in your career through both formal and informal training, and are committed to providing opportunities through internal recruitment, secondments and promotion. All of this is delivered in a supportive and collaborative environment.
About GAIN
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.
GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.
Our Working Culture and Environment
We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.
All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.
GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.
Applicants must be currently based and have the existing right to live and work in the United Kingdom region to be eligible to apply for this position. Previous applicants do not need to re-apply.
This advert closes on 14th November 2023. Early applications are encouraged and this role is being recruited on a rolling basis. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.